Molly Crabapple spent 7 years recovering the Jewish history Zionism tried to erase

Molly Crabapple spent 7 years recovering the Jewish history Zionism tried to erase

From Real Talk by Middle East Eye

June 4, 2026 · 1h 7m · Season 1 · Episode 48

About this episode

Molly Crabapple discusses her research on the Jewish Labour Bund and its significance in the context of Jewish identity and antisemitism.

'Hundreds of people are coming to my events, many of them Jewish, and they tell me I gave them their ancestors back' Molly Crabapple is an Emmy Award-winning artist, author and journalist. Her new book, Here Where We Live Is Our Country, tells the largely forgotten story of the Jewish Labour Bund, a secular, socialist, anti-Zionist mass movement founded in 1897 that at its peak was the largest Jewish political organisation in Eastern Europe. The Bund believed that Jewish people had the right to stay in their homes, and refused to accept that the answer to antisemitism was a Jewish ethnostate in Palestine. In this conversation on Real Talk, Molly sits down with Mohamed Hashem to talk about her Jewish identity, her 2015 reporting trip to Gaza, seven years of archival research, and what the Bund's story means during this time.

People in this episode

Host: Mohamed Hashem

Guest: Molly Crabapple

Topics covered

  • Jewish history
  • Zionism
  • socialism
  • antisemitism
  • identity
  • archival research

Keywords

  • Molly Crabapple
  • Jewish Labour Bund
  • Zionism
  • antisemitism
  • Gaza
  • identity
  • socialism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Jewish Labour Bund

Places: Palestine

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