#The Bund

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Week 27.7/52: July 1st - July 7th 2024 | The Bund

my favourite skyline in the universe <3 i love i love i love

tried mixue!!!!! i love grape mochi ahhhh

so hot!! 44 degrees lmao

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From the moment Theodore Herzl strode upon the world stage, many of us have insisted that leaving the diaspora for a Jewish nation-state is the wrong way to achieve safety, fight antisemitism, actualize Jewish identity, and work for justice in the world. Many have claimed that our peoples’ relationship to the land of Israel is far more complicated than a narrow nationalist vision can allow, or that we are religiously forbidden, at this time, from setting up a Jewish state in the holy land. And many have protested Israel’s dispossession of the Palestinians indigenous to the land of Israel. Though these arguments, and many others, animated Jewish life and discourse for generations, they are too often forgotten in today’s mainstream discourse, buried under the mistaken assumption that all Jews have always supported Zionism. But today, as more Jews are awakening to the depth of Israel’s unjust oppression of Palestinians, there is a real thirst for new Jewish identities, to guide us through these troubled times. In order to dream the Jewish future beyond Zionism, we need to trace the Jewish past beyond Zionism.

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2002 China, Shanghaï, The Bund, Pujiang Hotel (ex. Astor House Hotel)

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Shanghai

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Mir zaynen doh

Flags are more annoying to sew than expected

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Take a walk in Shanghai

外滩 / Waitan / The Bund / 外灘

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The Bund at night, Shanghai, China

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When Zionists argue that anti-Zionism is equal to antisemitism, they gloss over the rich and deep history of the anti-Zionist movement in Jewish civil society. Judaism is not equal to Zionism, and this argument weaponizes the religion for Zionism’s violent political gain. This erasure of the historical lineage of anti-Zionism is, in and of itself, an antisemitic act. Eliminating this important aspect of the Jewish record leaves only the Zionist interpretation — one of victimization, despair, and ultimately, leaving Europe. This perspective was and continues to be used as an excuse for racism, colonialism, war crimes, and more. But the General Jewish Labor Bund believed strongly that Jews should fight antisemitism at home, and even took up arms to do so. These were the world’s first anti-Zionist Jews.

The Bund was founded by Ashkenazi Jews, those of Central and Eastern European descent. More than 80 percent of Jewish people today are Ashkenazim. The Bund was formed in the Pale of Settlement, an area now part of Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Moldova that was originally designated by Russia’s tsarist regime as the area for Jews to settle in the 1700s.

The Bund’s history should be better known. It is part of a fuller story of Jewish anti-Zionism that must be shared loudly and widely — so that Jews around the world know that they have a rich archive to draw from beyond colonialist Zionism, and so that the equation of “anti-Zionism = antisemitism” can finally be put to rest.

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At Garden Bridge of Shanghai

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Shanghai - China

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