All right, there's a huge effort to silence certain voices in the United States and abroad

right now.

And a lot of voices that are being shunned and silenced and not platformed are American,

Jewish people that fundamentally oppose the genocidal government of Israel.

And here to educate us and discuss this with us is Molly Crabapple.

She is an Emmy award-winning artist.

That's pretty cool.

And author of Here Where We Live is Our Country, The Story of the Jewish Bund. Molly, thank you for joining me in

studio. I'm so happy to be here. Okay. What is the Jewish Bund? The Jewish Bund was a revolutionary

party that was born in Tsarist Russia in 1897, that was created because Zaris Russia was the worst place in the

world to be Jewish at the time. You had all of these laws that were based on telling you what to

do, where you could live, that you couldn't go to university, that you would spend 25 years in the

army. And at the same time, whenever a government targets a minority,

as we know in America, that means that there's a whole lot of bigotry and racism and violence.

So young Jewish socialists got together and they came to the realization that they were oppressed

both as Jewish people living in this

terrible autocratic empire, but also they were oppressed as workers, because as we know,

the bosses always oppressed the workers. And they created the Jewish labor boon to fight for

democratic socialism in Russia, but also to fight for their own liberation

as Jews, to fight for their freedom, for their dignity, for their ability to have beautiful

lives in the countries where they had lived for a thousand years.

Very interesting. And then also just explained for my listeners in a very simple way, what is Zionism and what is a Zionist?

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