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Barry Trachtenberg

@barryctrachtenberg.bsky.social
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"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

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KriSol @krisolwissenschaft.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
More than 100 distinguished scholars of Middle East Studies, Antisemitism Studies, and Holocaust Studies criticize the “Draft Act on the Criminalization of the Denial of the State of Israel’s Right to Exist,” submitted by the State of Hesse to the Bundesrat. krisol-wissenschaft.org/wp-content/u...
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Barry Trachtenberg @barryctrachtenberg.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
New essay in Jacobin on the unconscionable decision of the AHA to veto a resolution against scholasticide in Palestine and a second resolution against the suppression of academic speech. jacobin.com/2026/01/hist... ‪@jacobinmag.bsky.social @historians.org
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Historians Have a Duty to Condemn Scholasticide in Gaza
An overwhelming majority of American Historical Association members voted earlier this month to condemn scholasticide in Gaza. AHA leaders overruled members to block the measure, opting for cowardice ...
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The largest & oldest professional org of historians in the U.S. had the opportunity to make a statement on Israel's relentless destruction of educational resources in Gaza. @historians.org members voted to condemn, but their leadership issued a veto. Amy Fallas explains🧵⬇️
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Barry Trachtenberg @barryctrachtenberg.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
So disappointing-again the American Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social reveals itself as standing in opposition to its members & refusing to stand with colleagues & students facing scholasticide in Gaza. Important response by Palestinian Historians Group www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47115
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We Refuse to be Silenced: The Palestinian Historians Group Responds to the AHA Council Vetoes
We, the Palestinian Historians Group, are outraged by the American Historical Association Council’s decision to veto two resolutions that members passed by 78 and 79 percent at the AHA Annual Business...
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Barry Trachtenberg @barryctrachtenberg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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’s #genocide
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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.
I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it.
Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.
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Barry Trachtenberg @barryctrachtenberg.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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 @wakeforest.bsky.social @historians.org #AAUP
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Barry Trachtenberg @barryctrachtenberg.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Poem: Your civility is a siege mondoweiss.net/2025/01/poem...
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Poem: Your civility is a siege
In the wake of the ceasefire in Gaza, a poem about maintaining militant clarity on what the last year of Zionist genocide means for writers and people of conscience across the world.
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Barry Trachtenberg @barryctrachtenberg.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Proud to be the latest Elder of Zion. support @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
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 🧵
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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
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
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
"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
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Airwars Gaza Patterns of Harm
Airwars monitors, assesses and preserves civilian casualty claims resulting from explosive weapons use in multiple conflicts.
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Rad Pedagogy @radpedagogy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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.
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Practicing Pedagogies of Resistance and Liberation: The Critical Study of Zionism
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Barry Trachtenberg @barryctrachtenberg.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Reading Hanna Lévy-Hass' Diary of Bergen-Belsen and thinking of all those resisting Israel's genocidal assault on Palestinians.
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