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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, đŸšČ, #FreePalestine

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Barry Trachtenberg@barryctrachtenberg.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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... â€Ș@jacobinmag.bsky.social @historians.org

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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Barry Trachtenberg@barryctrachtenberg.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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

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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Elad Nehorai@eladn.bsky.social · 2y ago

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.
Stacy Fahrenthold@sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 2y ago

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 đŸ§”

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Yair Wallach@yairwallach.bsky.social · 2y ago

"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.

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