Together, We Made Silence Speak

Some encouraging news landed last week:

Hey everyone,

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz published an article on April 6th titled “Jews Should Not Have to Take a Detour”, spotlighting the case of Paul A. Levine. (1)

In it, they make one thing painfully clear: Levine is being systematically erased from institutional memory — and that silence speaks louder than any statement.

You can read our latest appeal (2) to the university, but here’s the heart of it:

By refusing to even mention Levine by name, the university sends a clear message: Erasure is easier than accountability. Silence is safer than truth.
This isn’t just about ignoring a scholar. It’s about erasing the very questions he dared to ask — and that’s a dangerous precedent.

When an internationally respected Holocaust scholar like Paul A. Levine can simply be removed from memory, we have to ask: Whose memory is protected, and whose gets deleted next?
And if this is happening at Sweden’s oldest university — a supposed hub of critical thought — what does that say about the future of Holocaust Studies there?

How stable is the memory we rely on, and how easily can it collapse?

We’ll have to wait and see. But one thing’s for sure: this community is watching.

On behalf of the initiative, I want to thank all of you — some of you have been with us for six years now! Your continued support is what makes this possible.

A special thanks to journalist David Stavrou and Haaretz for shining a light where others prefer shadows.

Let’s keep the conversation going.