btw since antizionists and pro pals love bringing up marek edelman and using him as some kind of token antizionist jew:
a. he was in the minority of survivors who remained in poland. the majority went to israel. survivors who fought under him went back to israel.
b. he was still in the jco, created by zionist youth orgs. he and his family were also in the bund, but he later joined ANTI COMMUNIST GROUPS in poland lmao. sorry tankies
c. even when he eventually became even more of an antizionist, even when, in his youth, he originally supported palestinians and questioned israel’s right to exist (which alienated his fellow survivors)…in his later years, he softened.
he ended up supporting israel’s right to exist (in that he didnt call for its destruction), visited numerous times, even meeting with rabin, and wrote an open letter to palestinian leaders in 2002 calling them out on their tactics (which he didnt even call terrorism btw lmao) and urging them to have peace talks with israel.
The last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising has called on Palestinians to halt their attacks on Israeli civilians and start talk
and in another letter:
“I am looking to you because up until now my attempts to come to an understanding with the leadership of P.A. have been to no avail. I hope that you and the progressive people in Israel and in the area administered by P.A. will set the process in motion.”
The following exchange began with a letter to the Forward from Dr. Marek Edelman calling on his fellow physician, Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, to
so kiss my entire ass. stop tokenizing jews.
