"Bundists reported to comrades abroad that 'pogroms exist only where the government wants them.' This highlights the complicity of state forces in anti-Semitic violence."
"Crabapple's archival reconstruction reveals the ethnonationalist through line linking European antisemitism and Zionism from the late 19th century to the present."
"In 1938, Bundist leader Henryk Erlich wrote, 'Zionism, in point of...' indicating the foresight of Bundists regarding the consequences of Zionist ideology."
Molly Crabapple's history of the Jewish Labor Bund details the anti-Zionist, socialist movement founded by Eastern European Jews in 1897. It recounts the violent pogroms against Jews, particularly in Odessa in 1905, where police and soldiers aided attackers. Today, descendants of those affected by pogroms perpetrate violence against Palestinians, with Israeli settlers displacing thousands. Crabapple connects historical antisemitism to modern Zionism, illustrating how Bundists anticipated the reversal of victim and perpetrator roles within Zionist ideology.
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