Hi, I saw a post on here the other day implying that Russia is pushing/making pro-Palestine propaganda (something along the lines of its surprisingly easy for Tumblr users to fall for Russian propaganda using the pro-Palestine movement as an example). I feel like I've heard this before but nothing concrete, and I'm genuinely curious if you know whether this is happening and to what extent?
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
A pro-Russian propaganda group is taking advantage of high-profile news events to spread disinformation — and they’re spoofing reputable new
The research for this study was supported by The B.L. Manger Foundation, Inc. Executive Summary Since April 2023, Russia has been running an
For at least two years, Russia has been running a global disinformation campaign that has targeted Ukrainian, French, German, and Israeli au
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
American progressive ideologues have formed a new ideology based on the negation of an all-powerful phantasm they call ‘Zionism.’ To fight
Anti-zionism is perhaps the most sophisticated form of anti-Jewish bigotry precisely because it was designed to masquerade as political crit
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/
https://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/2022/04/08/exposing-the-soviet-lie-of-israeli-apartheid/
Going to add another source that covers specifically Academic "Antizionism" and how that derives from Zombie Soviet bullshit. Feel free to remove/ask me to delete if you don't feel it serves your point.
Shaul Kelner Fall/Winter 2025
See also from 1999:
Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and agree to the concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 37) concerning anti-Semitic statements made by
and 2011 (Links are good)
Various state department pages that are still un-fucked with as of yet (Links are good)
history.state.gov 3.0 shell
Not that this post needs more sources but I am once again going to suggest this article on the origins of leftist antisemitism, too:
Antisemitism has been significant in American left-wing movements since their emergence in the nineteenth century. It was, however, much mor
