Eric Trager

Eric R. Trager is (2012) the Ira Weiner Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP); prior to that he was a WINEP research assistant from 2005 to 2006. Trager graduated from Harvard (AB 2005) with a degree in Government Studies. Also during his student years Trager was an intern in the Knesset, or Israeli parliament. After his Harvard graduation Trager obtained a Fulbright scholarship to pursue a Graduate Diploma in Islamic Studies at the American University in Cairo.

University Activism
While at Harvard he was the secretary of the Harvard Students for Israel. During the 2003-04 academic year at Harvard, Trager, "using an assumed (gentile) name, began posting anti-semitic statements on the weblog of the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice, an anti-war, pro-Palestinian group on campus"

Affiliations

 * AIPAC Trager was a discussant on one of the AIPAC's Conference's panels.
 * Fikra Forum – contributor