Barry Trachtenberg
barryctrachtenberg.bsky.social
Barry Trachtenberg
@barryctrachtenberg.bsky.social
"Trachtenberg was the only witness the government chose to cross-examine. The effort to impeach his credibility went almost comically off the rails." - M. Gessen
Historian, Parent, 🚲, #FreePalestine
theguardian.com⁣⁣ ⁣ We are part of a group of 27 Jewish scholars of Jewish studies who have filed an amicus brief in Harvard’s lawsuit against the Trump administration. We reject Harvard’s troubling assumption that being Jewish necessitates supporting Israel, or that criticism of Israel#genocidecide
June 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked."

She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
January 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Read this urgent essay by AAUP urging academic institutions and faculty to resist “anticipatory obedience” to the Trump administration and to take proactive measures to protect faculty rights and institutional values: bit.ly/3E4a4EO

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#AAUP
January 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Proud to be the latest Elder of Zion.

support @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
January 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Calling all at #AHA25: Join Historians 4 Palestine on Sunday Jan 5 12 pm at 1345 6th Avenue. We demand an end US stop military aid to Israel, divestment from Israeli institutions, that
AHA historians condemn Israeli scholasticide of Palestinians in Gaza, & Palestine be free 🧵
January 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Solidarity with all the historians at #AHA this year protesting our ongoing complicity through silence with scholasticide and genocide in Gaza. If there’s one profession that should get this right, it’s ours. #skystorians
January 4, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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"By almost every metric, the harm to civilians from the first month of the Israeli campaign in Gaza is incomparable with any 21st century air campaign. It is by far the most intense, destructive, and fatal conflict for civilians that Airwars has ever documented."
gaza-patterns-harm.airwars.org
Airwars Gaza Patterns of Harm
Airwars monitors, assesses and preserves civilian casualty claims resulting from explosive weapons use in multiple conflicts.
gaza-patterns-harm.airwars.org
December 14, 2024 at 12:22 PM
December 12, 2024 at 12:56 AM
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Our November 2024 episode features a conversation with two founding leaders of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism.

We discuss the genesis of ICSZ, responding to the institutional repression Palestine solidarity activism, creative pedagogies for our current moment, and more.
Practicing Pedagogies of Resistance and Liberation: The Critical Study of Zionism
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November 20, 2024 at 4:54 PM
Reading Hanna Lévy-Hass' Diary of Bergen-Belsen and thinking of all those resisting Israel's genocidal assault on Palestinians.
December 6, 2024 at 6:19 PM