The heretic throws out the dirty water,

the renegade throws out the baby.

Both of them have fuses that are shorter

than skeptics who don’t throw out “maybe,”

like the members of the Bund who fought a

fierce battle against Zionism till extincted,

sans Judaism – disparaged just like dirty water

which they’d not drink, but kitchen sinked it. 

In “What Does Judaism Look Like Without Zionism?” NYT, 4/6/26, Max Strasser, reviewing  Here Where We Live Is Our Country. The Story of the Jewish Bund by Molly Crabapple,  writes:

Has the entanglement of Jewishness and Zionism ever felt more fraught? As Israel, fresh off the wholesale destruction of Gaza, drops more bombs across the Middle East, a Michigan synagogue is attacked by a Lebanese........

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