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In reply to the discussion: So Fetterman will leave the party if the Democrats take a "anti- Israel Party" stance. [View all]AZProgressive
(30,118 posts)about an anti-Zionist Jewish sect titled Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund by Molly Crabapple. I haven't read it but in interviews she alleges in the early 20th century the Zionists allied with far right xenophobes which still seems true today.
As far as Democrats most of the mainline Democrats are out of step with most of the party because the polling has flipped on Israel when it comes to Democrats. I hope the mainline Democrats are smart enough not to agree with most of the Netanyahu's far-right regime policies.
Edit: I found a transcript of one of her interviews.
'Here Where We Live Is Our Country' tells the story of a Jewish labor movement (NPR)
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FADEL: What made it anti-Zionist?
CRABAPPLE: In the start, they felt that Zionism was an extremely silly idea. They did not think that millions of Jews were going to leave their homes in Europe to become collective farmers in the Levant. But after Zionism got the backing of the British Empire with the Balfour Declaration, the Bundists opposed it for another reason, and that was an ethical one. They saw Zionism as a handmaiden of British imperialism. But there is another reason as well. When Bundists saw the racist Polish government screaming Jews to Palestine and then they saw Zionist leaders like Ze'ev Jabotinsky also saying Jews to Palestine, they saw this as submission to their enemies. They saw this as letting bigots win.
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/22/nx-s1-5701403/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-tells-the-story-of-a-jewish-labor-movement