In 2015 Molly Crabapple attended the Palestine Festival of Literature in Palestine. When she returned home she began excavating her family’s history and her great-grandfather’s involvement with the Jewish Bund - a secular, socialist, uncompromisingly anti-Zionist revolutionary movement that reached its zenith in inter-war Europe.

Now, eleven years later, she has written HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY, a popular history of the Jewish movement that refused Zionism’s call to colonize and subjugate, and insisted that Here Where We Live Is Our Country.

We sat down with Molly for the PalFest Podcast ahead of its publication.

This episode was recorded in New York on March 18th, 2026.

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