Barry Trachtenberg is a historian of modern European and American Jewry, and as an Associate Professor at Wake Forest University he teaches classes about the Nazi Holocaust, Zionism, and American Jewry. Trachtenberg is also a member of the Academic Advisory Board of Jewish Voice for Peace. Trachtenberg recently authored the Mondoweiss article “The New Kherem, or ‘Barry Trachtenberg Does Not Represent Us!’: On speaking for and against Jewish self-interests” in which he describes how a new form of kherem (Yiddish and Hebrew for “excommunication”) is being used against Jewish critics of Israel and Zionism.
Where Is the Palestinian Mandela?
Many interested in Israel-Palestine have asked the question: “Where is the Palestinian Mandela?” But Nelson Mandela’s grandson Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela has argued that this question emerges from a distortion of his grandfather’s legacy. Who Was Nelson Mandela?...
