Konrad Yakabuski/The Globe and Mail: “My great-grandfather was a leader in the [Russian anti-Zionist] Jewish Labour Bund,” said Mr. Lewis, who noted that it was founded in 1897, five weeks after the end of the First Zionist Congress. “So, as long as there’s been formal pro-Israel Zionist organizations, there has been a tradition that has disagreed with that within the Jewish community.”
Except, there is a world of difference between describing oneself as an anti-Zionist in 1897 and being one today, more than two years after the Hamas attack on Israel that unleashed the war in Gaza and the global surge in antisemitism that has left Jews everywhere, including in Canada, living in fear…