By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/06/2026While I discovered the Bund through reading Naomi Klein, many others learned about it from Crabapple's widely circulated 2018 *New York Review of Books* article, "My Great-Grandfather the Bundist": archive.is/202605180104... 29/archive.is 1120
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/06/2026Predictably, Crabapple's article provoked attacks from Zionists who blamed the Bund for its own extermination. In their telling, the Bund's stubborn refusal to confront antisemitism as "history's oldest hatred" was a suicidal delusion that led their members into the Nazis' mass graves. 30/ 1120
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/06/2026But for many Jews, Crabapple's article was a revelation about a different way to be Jewish, an identity that rejected the Apartheid state of Israel. 31/ 1150
