Becoming Anti-Zionist

Becoming Anti-Zionist

In this recording, part of a larger video memoir project, lifetime activist and educator Suzanne Ross recalls more about her development as an Anti-Zionist. She remembers that her family, when they arrived in Palestine (before the creation of the State of Israel), had no commitment to Zionism. She also discusses various aspects of life on the kibbutz, including the ways that Eastern European Jews, especially religious ones, were ridiculed by young secular Jews and were accused of doing nothing to resist the Holocaust. Suzanne later learned about figures like Mordechai Anielewicz and Róza Robota, a Jewish Communist leader of the Warsaw Uprising and a young Jewish woman prisoner at Birkenau concentration camp who helped blow up one of the crematoria. She discusses how the myth of the "passive" Jew during the Holocaust bolsters certain elements of Zionism today.

2022

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MP4

English

Video memoir

AV-ROSS.007A

MP4

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