r/JewsOfConscience • u/Working-Lifeguard587 • Jul 27 '24

History A Jewish socialist critique of Zionism, from 1906

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/a-jewish-socialist-critique-of-zionism-from-1906
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u/socialist_butterfly0 Jewish Communist Jul 27 '24

Finding out about the Jewish Labor Bund has been one of the most important thing for me in having pride in my Jewish identity.

Also was incredibly frustrating. You mean we have a legacy of a labor focused Jewish left, that is just as old as zionism, and it has been kept from most jews to bolster the zionist mythology.

Either way, there are efforts to revitalize the Bund in the US. Derbund.org

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u/yeehaw_batman Ashkenazi Jul 28 '24

i was so excited to see a chapter of the bund active where i live

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u/sudo_apt-get_intrnet LGBTQ Jew Jul 27 '24

Every time I read something from the non-Zionist Jews of the pre-Holocaust era I am left both fascinated and saddened at what we, as a community, lost. The Jewish places and groups sited in that essay were exterminated en masse. All these alternative thoughts and politics, literally burned to death in the concentration camps. I can only hope one day we can rebuild what we lost and evolve from the scared, scarred place we are in as a community now.

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u/Saul_al-Rakoun Conservadox & Marxist Jul 29 '24

And then there's Zionism's McDonaldsification of the rest of World Jewry...