Edna Friedberg

Historian @holocaustmuseum. Opinions my own. The darker, the funnier.

[Count von Count @CountVonCount]

Five thousand seven hundred ninety two!

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

This grandma is a badass 🥹 treated death with a smile

[Edna Friedberg @EdnaFriedberg]

@HumanityChad Tf??

[Asaf Elia-Shalev @AsafShaloo]

Temple Israel is releasing photos of the devastation in order "to take back control of our narrative," the congregation said in a statement.
I am posting these photos, which were taken by Emily Elconin, with permission.

[Edna Friedberg @EdnaFriedberg]

@ArjunShukl95550 @pv_tradingclub @SahilBloom Best reply of the night.

[Edna Friedberg @EdnaFriedberg]

@yashar @LucBernard Spot on. Thank you for speaking it loudly and clearly!

[SOE History @SOEhistory]

🅾🅽 🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅳🅰🆈
March 11, 2021: A @USHMM podcast airs about three female secret agents, two of them SOE agents, featuring moderator @EdnaFriedberg and speakers Dr. Elizabeth Baer and Janelle Neises (@CIA Museum).
#WomenInWW2 #SOE #WW2 1/3

https://t.co/GvDjJc8rb3

[Edna Friedberg @EdnaFriedberg]

As a historian of antisemitism, I commend you and thank you. And I’ll keep telling anyone who will listen to honor the voices of Iranian people speaking their own truths as well. Very grateful for you.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

I’m so fucking sick of snark from people on here because I talk about Jew hatred a lot.

First, those who have followed me for a while know this has been a focus of mine for more than 10 years — it’s not something I suddenly picked up post–October 7.

My focus is largely on extremism, particularly in America, not on Israel, although I fully understand there’s crossover.

Second, people who say my focus on this is cringe, annoying, or stupid either don’t understand how serious this problem is — or they’re Jew haters themselves.

This is an urgent matter.

I wouldn’t spend this much time on it if it weren’t.

And despite what some people online seem to believe, it certainly isn’t lucrative or helpful to my career.

We know from decades of research that once someone adopts a fully developed antisemitic worldview, it becomes very, very difficult to deradicalize them — though not impossible.

I don’t want to lose more people to the abyss of Jew hatred.

As far as I’m concerned, this is existential.

When hatred of Jews becomes part of someone’s identity and worldview, it shapes how they understand everything: politics, morality, and even their sense of belonging.

Antisemitism operates differently from many other forms of hatred because it is conspiratorial in nature rather than simply prejudicial.

Conspiracy beliefs are self-sealing: evidence against them is interpreted as proof of the conspiracy itself.

People who adopt strong antisemitic views often move into social ecosystems that reinforce those beliefs: online communities, ideological networks, and political movements.

Antisemites also see their hatred as morally justified.

In their minds, they are defending civilization, fighting corruption, exposing hidden evil, and, as many of you learned recently, exposing child-killing pedophiles.

Once hatred becomes framed as a moral duty, deradicalization becomes far more difficult.

Antisemitism also “explains” everything to the Jew hater.

Because Jews are falsely framed as the hidden cause behind many unrelated problems, Jews become the grand explanatory theory for the world’s failures and for the failures and challenges people have personally.

People who criticize me or mock me ultimately don’t bother me.

But it is deeply annoying and concerning — particularly because they cannot even claim that I spend my time advocating for Israel or defending the decisions of the Israeli government.

So their issue is with Jews.

Ultimately, if you have a problem with me talking about this, you can kiss my Iranian ass.

[Martin Plaut @martinplaut]

Anyone sympathising with Iran's brutal regime should remember how they treat gay men

[Edna Friedberg @EdnaFriedberg]

@ElishaWiesel That was a powerful moment in the rotunda.

[Jasem Aljuraid | جاسم ��لجريّد @JJJuraid]

I'm Kuwaiti 🇰🇼 and would like to express my condolences to the victims' friends and families in Beit Shemesh. May the memories of the lost souls be eternal 🕯️😢 🇮🇱

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

WATCH 🔴

Sky News Australia anchor, live on-air, in Persian:

"A message to the late Supreme Leader: You son of a b*tch, burn in Hell!"

Wild times

[Claire @Claire_V0ltaire]

Tens of millions of Iranians are about to tell western leftists that they don’t hate the Jews and it’s gonna confuse the hell out of Ivy League grads.

[Edna Friedberg @EdnaFriedberg]

@PoPville We are stranded here! Eight days into and not a single plow. Thank you for spotlighting this.

[Edna Friedberg @EdnaFriedberg]

@arash_tehran @simonmontefiore 💯 And I wish neither of us knew that feeling. Sending a big hug, Arash Jan.

[Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی @arash_tehran]

It never gets less painful to see how so many are so wanton about the loss of thousands of Iranian lives. People one considers friends, people one knows.

It never gets less painful

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

peek = 🫣

peak = 🗻

pique = 👀

[Daniel @VoteLewko]

2.6 billion people around the globe are about to celebrate the birth of a Jewish man in Bethlehem of Judea 2000+ years ago, but some people still don’t think any Jews lived there before 1948.