One more time wi feeling: Molly Crabapple on the bund

'Yes, it’s hideously racist here, but also it’s not genetic. It’s not that these Europeans are fundamentally evil. It’s because of these systems that blame Jews to take the heat off of the autocracy or off of the capitalists or off of the ruler. And we can actually fight alongside Russians or Poles or French or German people for a better world'

#jewishBund #mollyCrabapple #judaism #socialism #solidarity

https://hammerandhope.org/article/molly-crabapple-jewish-labor-bund

'Bundists rejected Zionism because it offended the core principle of their project: that ethnic particularity need not lead to nationalism, that it could be the basis for organizing across difference'

#mollyCrabapple #jewishBund #israel #zionism #fascism

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/07/molly-crabapple-new-book-jewish-socialism

Molly Crabapple on the Jewish Bund

'When I wrote my book about the Bund, I made sure to focus on the women. Some were barricade fighters and orators. Some shot guns, wrote theoretical treatises, and pulled their friends off of boxcars bound for Treblinka...I tried to pay attention to the humbler work of life. The women’s vigils alongside Mokotow prison. The women on the bus to Rikers. The aunties who pack the packages. The hands that keep movements alive'

#history #literature #bookstodon #jewishBund #resistance #prisonIndustrialComplex

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a70884911/molly-crabapple-bund/

Anti-Colonial Film Night: They tried to bury us, they didn't know we were seeds

Presented by Jewish Bund x FACQ

An evening of short films that explore seed, land and food sovereignty followed by a panel discussion. We will screen the films: “The Bitter Land” (2020) by Al Warcha and Working Group on Food Sovereignty, exploring land, water, genetic heritage in rural Tunisia, ten years after the revolution, in a subtle climate of indignation and resistance,

“Who is Afraid of Ideology? Part 3: Microresistencias” (2020) by Marwa Arsanios, who turns her focus to the seed and its potential as a tool for political agency and resistance in central Colombia and

“UNDR” (2023) by Kamal Aljafari which employs archival footage recalling that Palestine remains a land subjected to aerial surveillance that seeks to appropriate the landscape.

The panel will be composed of an organiser from Aloti, a BIPoC, queer and neurodivergent led permaculture farm, filmmaker Marwa Arsanios and a farmer-activist from Brandenburg. Together we will discuss how seeds are resilience and collectively explore solidarity and resistance against colonization, genocide, and capitalism.

October 10, 2024 | 7.00 pm | REFUGE WORLDWIDE Niemetzstrafie 1, 12055 Berlin

#Berlin #AllOffFestival #RefugeWorldwide #JewishBund #FACO #TheBitterLand #Microresistencias #UNDR #Brandenburg #Aloti #MarwaArsanios

The Ideals of the Jewish Labor Bund Have Outlived Nazi Genocide

"In tsarist Russia and interwar Poland, the Jewish Bund developed a socialist alternative to Zionism while fighting against antisemitic oppression. The neglected international history of their movement is a vital resource for our own time."

https://jacobin.com/2022/06/jewish-labor-bund-nazi-genocide-wwii-labor-migration-anti-zionism

#zionismisfascism #zionismisracism #zionism #Palestine #genocide #socialism #JewishBund

Revolutionäre Jüd*innen für soziale Gerechtigkeit (#Jewishbund):

"Wir stehen hier, um euch ein für alle mal zu sagen:
Ihr schützt uns nicht.

Was uns bedroht,
sind Rechtspopulisten und Nazis. von denen
immer mehr im Bundestag und in den Landtagen sitzen

Ihr schützt uns nicht, indem ihr
das Leid, das unseren Familien von
Deutschland angetan wurde, benutzt, um
Kriegsverbrechen zu rechtfertigen

Wir widersetzen uns eurem exotisierenden philosemitischen
Paternalismus."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYt_mllpnnM

‘Kishinev,’ new installment in Sam Aronow’s extraordinary Jewish history series
https://youtu.be/-CqTrj-Kja8

#JewishHistory #SamAronow #antisemitism #PavelKrushevan #ProtocolsOfTheEldersOfZion #TheodorHerzl #Zionism #JewishBund #RussianEmpire #RussoJapaneseWar

Are you a Jewish person who had some myths about Hanukkah dispelled recently (say, by @swordsjew 's great piece)? Has the pervasive narrative that European Jews allowed themselves to get genocided always bothered you?

Then do I have some great news for you! Instead of spending Chanukah memorializing some wildly distorted history almost everyone had forgotten until recently, you can use this time to learn about the brave Jews who were in the Jewish Combat Organization (ZOB, polish acronym) and defended our people against Nazi murder in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 1943.

Personally, I like to think about Marek Edelman, a Bundist and anti-zionist his whole life. He commanded the ZOB around the time of the uprising, escaped the ghetto (and deportation to the camps), took part in the Warsaw uprising of 1944, and continued to live in Poland under communist rule despite antisemitism in the 1960s (connected to the Six-day War), then helped the Solidarnosc independent union during the 80s. He saw himself as the guardian of his comrades' graves in Warsaw until his death in 2009.

Marek and others like him are what Jewish resistance to antisemitism and genocide look like today, not in some made up past that has almost no connection to you or me today.

#JewishBund #JewishCombatOrganization #MarekEdelman #WarsawGhettoUprising