Kostya Shmostya

@newdaynewlead @SwannMarcus89 Yeah, if you make something up in your head that contradicts all data, then New York is indeed the scariest place in the world

@SwannMarcus89 if walking down the street i am mugged, punched, and shoved on a train track, but the perpetrators are not arrested and charged, crime is low statistically not literally. i am a victim but their crimes are not recorded.

New York is such a funny city because it’s currently the single safest major city in America on a per capita basis and literally everyone pretends it’s violent for political reasons

@jaysburningroom Most Orthodox Jews also died, does that mean that Orthodox Judaism is not actual Judaism? A lot of Jews see Bundism and think: "oh yeah that's actual Judaism that I was raised with but didn't have a name for and thought I was the weirdo"

@shmostya Do you expect people to see Bundism and think "oh yeah that's actual Judaism! Of course almost all of them died but in a virtuous way! Not like those selfish Zionists that escaped to maintain themselves alive! How dare them"

Zionists, on the other hand, are doing a great job winning at nationalism and antisemitism

@KenanPerry I don't think they considered themselves as such. Advocating for the interests of your people doesn't necessarily make you a nationalist

i mean the bundists were also jewish nationalists. that was a pretty significant part of their ideology. like i understand where you're coming from here but the bundists very much were jewish nationalists.

@CensoredSensor @shorepatrol @IzaTabaro @deafprophet That's a hypothetical, but the fact remains that it was the Jews who stayed in Europe who fought and liberated the camps. 500,000 Jews served in the Soviet army, and about 50,000 Jews did in the British army

@shmostya @shorepatrol @IzaTabaro @deafprophet It prevented a second and third one.

The key sentence in this New York Times piece about the Bund is: “Today, the Bund is largely forgotten.” There is a reason for that. As I write in the concluding chapter of Be a Refusenik: “In the long arc of Jewish history, the Bundists, whom today’s antizionists look to for inspiration, have lost decisively and irrevocably. Zionists outpaced the Bund by far in their appeal to Russian Jewry. They drove their point home when they fully implemented their political vision of building a Jewish state and rescuing the remains of Eastern European Jewry that the Bund had insisted must stay in Poland and Ukraine. Long after the Bund perished in the bloodlands of Europe, Zionists kept proving their point. They did it every time they saved more Jews — Moroccan, Tunisian, Libyan, Yemeni, Iraqi, Iranian, Ethiopian — and brought them to Israel. In the Soviet Union, their most resounding vindication came through the refuseniks, who reversed the destruction wrought by the Yevsektsia— the Jewish Sections of the Communist Party, staffed in part by former Bundists — and resurrected Judaism, Hebrew, Zionism, and the rich Jewish identity that Soviet policy had tried so hard to erase.” And that, in a nutshell, is why the Bund is now thoroughly forgotten, while Zionism continues to thrive and be a vital part of Jewish identity. No matter how hard Jewish antizionists like Crabapple try to invoke the ghosts of a movement whose vision proved to be so decisively and tragically wrong, they will not bring it back — and they certainly will not make it relevant for Jews again. So irrelevant is the Bund today, in fact, that it didn’t even make it into the title of the piece about it. What is in the title instead? Zionism. Q.E.D.

Do people think that if Israel existed in the 1940s, the Holocaust wouldn’t have happened

רעש און יללות. נאָך אַ דיסקורס־ציקל װעגן „בונד“ און די העכסטע קולות שטאַמען פֿון מענטשן װאָס לייענען נישט קיין ייִדיש, האָבן נישט קיין קענטעניש אין די בונדיסטישע טעקסטן, אין דער געשיכטע אויך, און װאָס האָבן נישט קיין אָנונג פֿון דער קולטורװעלט װאָס דער בונד האָט איבערגעלאָזט

@loveaissu Я с коцаном (не мой но мы котореши)

@loveaissu Больше всего я горжусь попаданием в "grown men with cats" -- меня туда добавили за агитацию в защиту велодорожек и общественного транспорта. Потому что ездить на велосипеде и заводить кота - это не по-пацански

твиттерские списки это так забавно

איך װעל נישט איבערלעבן דעם מאָלי קראַבאַפּל דיסקורס װאָס װעט באלד פאָרקומען. פון אלע זייטן װעל איך נישט קענען איבערלעבן

@just_whatever @MichaelRosenYes This person is clearly not from the "we're just anti-zionist, not antisemites" crowd, as this is clearly an open antisemite. So your example doesn't prove anything

No matter how anti-Zionist any Jew is, it won’t be enough for “we are just anti-Zionists, not antisemites” crowd Look at how consistently that one with Hamas’ inverted triangle wants to send @MichaelRosenYes “to Poland” (I think he wants to put him into Auschwitz, but I digress)

@shorepatrol @IzaTabaro @deafprophet Hold up, did Zionists liberate Auschwitz??

@IzaTabaro @deafprophet Judaism without Zionism looks like Auschwitz.

@IzaTabaro Refuseniks were a small fraction of Soviet Jewry (~11k-18k), about 20x fewer even than the Jewish membership of the Communist Party (294,000 in 1976). When emigration was allowed, vast majority picked the US over Israel, and their primary motivation was economic, not ideological.

@KenanPerry @bolsademiedo @DougHenwood So what exactly constitutes winning? I'm a Jew from Russia/USSR, I still exist, I've been able to lead my life as independently and Jewishly as I want (wherever I have lived), who do I have to thank for that? Zionists? Or my two great grandfathers who actually fought Hitler?

@shmostya @bolsademiedo @DougHenwood And they were murdered by their Soviet comrades for it, with almost all independent Jewish life in the USSR whether religious or secular thoroughly stamped out, and Jews subjected to systemic discrimination for decades. They wanted a revolution, they got it, and it destroyed them

You don’t see this on a bus shelter every day

@KenanPerry @bolsademiedo @DougHenwood I mean this whole discussion is ridiculous, what does succeeding even mean here? The Bund wanted a socialist revolution, they played a crucial part in taking down the czarist regime. They raised a generation of Soviet Jews that later helped defeat Hitler.

@shmostya @bolsademiedo @DougHenwood Ridiculous, by the time of WW2 the Yevsektsiya had already long since been disbanded and had most of its leaders murdered in the purges, you can't claim WW2 as a win for them, let alone the Bund which they forcibly supplanted

@KenanPerry @bolsademiedo @DougHenwood The original General Jewish Labour Bund, which merged in 1920 into the Bolshevik party via Yevsektsyia, absolutely succeeded at winning WW2 and defeating Hitler by integrating millions of Jews into Soviet society, contributing to the war effort, and lobbying the US to join.

@shmostya @bolsademiedo @DougHenwood The US is not the entire world, the Bund absolutely failed in its main center of central and eastern Europe, the best you can say is that it wasn't their fault and was due to circumstances far beyond their control

If saying "next year in Jerusalem" at the end of the Seder represents a Zionist aspiration, then any time you say "all roads lead to Rome" or "when in Rome, do as the Romans do", you're expressing support for the Modern State of Italy and its Right to Exist as a Catholic State

@elisecooks @GianmarcoSoresi What do Zionists say at the end of their Seder? "Next year in Jerusalem district?" Ridiculous Jerusalem in the Pesach story is not an administrative division within a modern nation state, it's a place from ancient Jewish mythology that represents a messianic ideal for the future

@GianmarcoSoresi You are aware of the story of Passover, right? There’s a reason the Seder ends with the words “Next year in Jerusalem”. I know you think it’s a joke but maybe skip the matzoh all together if you don’t think Israel should exist.

MOVIE PITCH: one New York Jew’s quest to find matzo not imported from Israel

@Clinton2028 Yeah I remember when it was first making rounds, I think the point was to show how much of the city shifted right from 2020, and I assumed that this scale was chosen because otherwise everything looked blue for 2020

@shmostya This post was bait but I genuinely didn’t even look for a distorted map this is somehow from the CUNY graduate school of journalism and it’s ridiculous electionatlas.nyc/maps.html

I don’t see a single blue city. Just blue precincts telling the rest of us how to live.