#bundism

[radicaljews]

There, where we live, there is our country! A democratic republic! Full political and national rights for Jews. Ensure that the voice of the Jewish working class is heard at the Constituent Assembly.

Bundist poster from Kyiv, Ukraine, circa 1918. Source.

[hillsofspices]

Bundist Dreams and Antizionist Nightmares

Every day for the past week, I have walked with Anne and the little brown dog in warm late autumn sunshine, the sun glowing in a cloudless s

[saintmelangell]

An appeal in Yiddish to the Jewish citizens of Tarnów, Poland, to boycott all products from Hitler's Germany, September 1933.

[thestudentempanada]

The Jewish Bund at Brandeis observes Al-Quds Day while acknowledging it was established by Imam Ruhollah Khomeini, the theocratic dictator (who is notorious for executing communists en masse btw).

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

#Repost @israelismfilm

“For Israel To Exist, Palestine Could Not.”

“When Zionist paramilitaries ethnically cleansed 750,000 Palestinians from their homes during the Nakba, the Bund demanded the right of return for those refugees. Israel, of course, would do no such thing. Bundists and Zionists hated each other from the start.”

@mollycrabapple speaks at the 2025 Conference on the Jewish Left, organized by BU’s Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs ( @cura_bostonuniversity ) about the history of the Bund, and the alternative vision for Jewish safety and liberation that Bundists proposed as an alternative to Zionism. She states:

“The Bund was a sometimes clandestine political party whose tenants were humane, socialist, secular, and defiantly Jewish. Bundists fought the Czar, battled pogroms, educated shtetls, and ultimately helped lead the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

“Though the Bund celebrated Jews as a nation, they irreconcilably opposed the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine.

“The Bund coined a word for this stubborn insistence on staying - ‘Dokheit’ hereness, as opposed to the there of Palestine.

“Bundists would fight for freedom and safety in the places where they lived, in defiance of everyone who wanted them dead. One can see in this Yiddish term a precursor echo of the Palestinian concept of ‘Sumud’, the steadfast determination to stay on their land despite the predations of the Israeli state.

“To the Bund, Zionism was submission to the same bigots who wanted to kick Jews out of their homes in Eastern Europe.

“Zionists and European racists agreed on one thing: Jews to Palestine. All of this filled the bund with disgust. Henrik Ehrlich wrote, “The Zionists regard themselves as second class citizens in Poland and their aim is to be first class citizens in Palestine and make Arabs second class citizens.”

The many Jews across the world fighting for liberation and safety where we live, and fighting for Palestinian freedom, embody the values of the Bund today.

[thererisesaredstar]

Wherever we live is our homeland.

by the Jewish Labour Bund in Ukraine (2003 version of 1917 poster)

[entanglingbriars]

I’ve been thinking about religious anarchism recently (again), so I’m curious: are there any major anarchist movements, philosophers, etc in Judaism? 

Absolutely! I'm not sure whether Bundism qualifies as anarchism, but it was a major socialist movement among Jews in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries. Emma Goldman is an extremely important philosopher in anarchism. There's lots of others but it's not my area of expertise. Tagging @daloy-politsey

[jewgender]

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As a punk/alternative gender - to piss off transphobes, goyim, etc.

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Versions of the flag listed above include the standard blank flag, the stripes and their meanings (again - these were directly referenced from the aforementioned flags!), an alternative flag that include "b'tzelem elohim" and "tzedek tirdof", and a Bundist /Jewish Labor Bund Jewgender flag.