These images illustrate how the Soviet Union visually equated Zionism with Nazism and colonialism throughout the 1960s and 70s.

You’ll notice striking similarities between these graphics and the infographics commonly seen on social media today.

This is not coincidence.

Most of the slogans and frameworks used in the "Free Palestine" movement today weren't created by Gen Z activists. They were engineered by the KGB and Soviet Agitprop (Agitation and Propaganda) departments over 50 years ago.

The Great Pivot

In 1948, the USSR actually supported Israel. But when Israel aligned with the West, the Soviets needed a way to turn the "Global South" against them. They launched a massive ideological campaign to rebrand Zionism (the movement for Jewish self-determination) as a form of "white supremacist colonialism."

They created a state-sponsored "science" called Zionology. The goal was simple: make Zionism synonymous with the world’s greatest evils (Nazism, Racism, and Imperialism) so that opposing Israel became a "progressive" moral requirement.

"Zionism is Racism" (UN Resolution 3379)

The crowning achievement of this era was the 1975 UN Resolution declaring "Zionism is a form of racism." This wasn't a grassroots human rights initiative; it was a Soviet-led diplomatic hit job.

Though the UN revoked it in 1991, the damage was permanent. It gave activists a "scholarly" and "international" license to treat the Jewish state as uniquely illegitimate. When you see modern infographics using these exact terms, you are seeing the tail-end of a 50-year-old Soviet PR campaign.

And yes, Russia is doing this again (along with Iran and Qatar).

Why Russia is doing it again

Today, Russia (and its modern disinformation machine) uses the Israel-Palestine conflict in the West as a wedge issue. They don't have to invent new lies. They just amplify existing tensions. By flooding platforms like Tumblr or Twitter with high-emotion content, they force Westerners to pick sides and fight each other.

If Russia can make young Americans believe their government is funding a genocide, it weakens domestic support for all Western foreign policy, including support for Ukraine.

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It is surprisingly easy to fall for it because this propaganda is designed to look like social justice. It uses the language of liberation to hide its origins in Cold War geopolitics.

When you see a post that frames a 3,000-year-old indigenous connection as settler-colonialism, or equates the Star of David with a Swastika, you're seeing a Soviet turd that's been polished for 21st century "progressives."

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The Essential Guide to Zionism, Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, and Jew-Hatred by American Historian Gil Troy

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA066235.pdf

https://www.nytimes.com/1949/05/02/archives/antizionism-in-soviet-union-turning-into-antisemitism-developing.html

https://www.timesofisrael.com/why-are-us-socialists-so-anti-israel-scholar-lays-out-soviet-roots-of-anti-zionist-rhetoric/

Mapping the New Left Antisemitism (Edited by Alan Johnson)

https://www.abc.net.au/religion/zionism-and-the-big-lie/11519628

https://quillette.com/2024/02/13/izabella-tabarovsky-on-the-soviet-roots-of-anti-zionist-discourse/

See also from 1999:

and 2011 (Links are good)

Various state department pages that are still un-fucked with as of yet (Links are good)

(The symbols and the flags were just chosen because they look cool)

Oppression of Uyghurs by the Chinese government (G-d knows how many deaths in concentration camps): very little protest

Persecution of Rohingyas by the Tadmadaw (24K+ deaths): no protest

Genocide of Masalit, Fur, Zaghawas, Berti and Tama by the Rapid Support Forces (75–115K deaths): no protest

You get an A+

Jordan was in fact founded to be the Palestinian state (as much as anything could be before "Palestinian" was invented as movement identity, much less discrete and exempt culture. Palestinian meant anyone hanging out in the British Mandate, usually Jews. The other present cultures included flavors like Levantine Arab.)

It's a slight oversimplification maybe, but the reality is that in the 1940's the entire issue was not framed as it is now, which makes it especially egregious when people talk about it as if it's been Israelis vs Palestians since '48. Those just weren't the 2 involved parties, it's a major fallacy.

No that was the Nazis

The Nazis killed Yiddish

Also Hebrew has always been a language that Jews use. Historically we used it as a lingua franca to interact with each other.

Also. Many of the remaining Ladino speakers were killed in the shoah.

Antizionism is Jew-hatred that hurts EVERYONE.

Stand up, speak up, name it, shame it.

I'm not Jewish and it was clear to me from the first moment I saw "Epstein class" what folks were going for there. But if you didn't see it...whatever. I'm not in your head. Maybe work on your pattern-matching skills.

Regardless, Jewish people are now saying "This is an antisemitic dog whistle" in clear, plain language. Just like that statement there, in fact. Zero excuses for refusing to understand.

this is a message to my fellow goyim, those who complain that "everything is a dog whistle now"

this is absolutely not blaming a marginalized people for the coining of a dog whistle targeting them, and definitely not claiming that recognizing it as such is the cause.