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In 1938, Polish Zionists attempted to make a coordinating committee of Jewish groups to fight against the worsening situation in the country. The Bund refused to join. To explain the decision, their leader Henryk Erlich described how Zionism collaborated with the racist Polish government that sought to expel Jews from the country.
"Zionism, in point of fact, has always been a Siamese twin of antisemitism," Erlich wrote. "Zionism has always regarded the law of force, of nationalistic action, as the normal law of history, and on this law has based its perspectives on Jewish life. In the forty years of its existence, it has always appeared lost and helpless in the presence of any victorious freedom movement [...]. The Zionists regard themselves as second class citizens in Poland. Their aim is to be first class citizens in Palestine and make the Arabs second class citizens."
The establishment of Israel would lead to perpetual war with its neighbors and the people it had dispossessed, Erlich wrote. "If a Jewish state should arise in Palestine; its spiritual climate will be eternal fear of the external enemy (Arabs); eternal struggle fit every bit of ground with the internal enemy (Arabs); and an untiring struggle for the extermination of the language and culture of the non-Hebraized Jews of Palestine [...]. Is this a climate in which freedom, democracy and progress can grow?" Erlich asked. "Indeed, is it not the climate in which reaction and chauvinism ordinarily flourish?"
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At a time when many Jewish people of the Diaspora are organizing against the Israeli state and its settler colonial mass murders against Pal
