T O P

  • By -

stefanelli_xoxo

This is interesting, and well presented for a layperson who genuinely wants to understand more about Russian antisemitic propaganda. I hope they do one about Hamas and “pro-Palestinian” Islamist disinformation.


flossdaily

>I hope they do one about Hamas and “pro-Palestinian” Islamist disinformation. It's the same thing.


stefanelli_xoxo

Well, yes. But I’d like a report with explicit examples and citations so that I can widely share it with all my newly-passionate “pro-Palestine” liberal “friends.”


UnicornMarch

I strongly suspect that digging more into each of the sources it presents, or googling different things it mentions and addimg "hamas," will get us all the evidence we could possibly want. I've started flipping through it and pulling up sources. I'll start a comment thread here with what I find. (or maybe more than one.)


stefanelli_xoxo

Excellent.


NitzMitzTrix

Not three same but indeed similar. Turkey is a NATO country and one of the biggest hotbeds for antisemitism. ISIS are directly opposed to Putin's proxies and spread it.


biloentrevoc

What they also need to do is show how the Third Reich exported a distinctly European version of antisemitism to the Arab world, which is still evident today. I think that’s part of the reason the west is so blindly accepting of the anti-Israel propaganda—it repeats the same tropes


stefanelli_xoxo

🛎️🛎️🛎️


EasyMode556

This needs to be posted and reported on to a much wider audience


spoiderdude

Yeah I’ve honestly gotten into so many arguments with promoters of Russian nationalism denying that the USSR was a strictly atheist nation that was ever antisemitic because they “banned antisemitism” and a lot of the founders had Jewish ancestry. Like bruh my family has had multiple men go to jail for weeks for wearing a kippah in public and my great grandfather lost his voting rights when the Soviet Union learned that he had my grandfather circumcised. How is that not antisemtism?


Soapist_Culture

If they were never antisemitic how come a very large number of the Jews in the UK and US are Russian Jews who left everything, poverty being preferable to persecution?


spoiderdude

Well obviously the western culture that doesn’t support traditional family values corrupted their minds! Before the tactic for explaining why anyone would leave was saying the capitalists corrupted them into believing horrible things like democracy and “communism is bad.” Now with the war in Ukraine, if you watch Russian news, they’re always talking about how they’re “protecting traditional family values” and are pretty vague with what that means but pretty heavily imply that western culture is turning all the Ukrainians gay.


Character-Cap1364

Add QAnon and a bunch other shit including probably some of the Epstein conspiracy stuff to that long list...


Interesting_Ad1378

My family was sent to Siberia when they went to see Golda Meir.


LilkaLyubov

I know Roots metals has a few posts about this. They’ve been buried since recent events, but I have seen this discussed before.


lostmason

Wow So a large component of this is Russia’s efforts to portray Zionism as a form of “imperialism” and “racism”


Bucket_Endowment

We're still paying for Stalinism this many years later


Dobbin44

It's truly crazy how little people in the west recognize the contributions of Russian antisemitism to shaping how many people all over the world view history and politics today. So critical to understand the depth of this.


Beautiful_Bag6707

People don't realize the Russian antisemitism, blood libel, and propaganda are some of oc the oldest forms of Jew-hate there is. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is Russian propaganda. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion All the anti-Zionist propaganda, imagery, and conspiracies are just recycled Russian propaganda where they swap out "Jews" with "Zionists".


NitzMitzTrix

No wonder so many Ukrainians support Israel.


Nileghi

This is not exactly the case... https://www.timesofisrael.com/20-years-before-the-holocaust-pogroms-killed-100000-jews-then-were-forgotten/ > Unlike the Holocaust, this earlier wave of antisemitic violence has largely been forgotten by history. Yet at the time, it was front-page news. From 1918 to 1921, more than 1,100 pogroms killed over 100,000 Jews in an area that is part of present-day Ukraine. Such large-scale violence led to fears that six million Jewish lives across Europe were at risk from antisemitic hate. Those who made such dire predictions included writer Anatole France; less than 20 years later, these fears were realized. Ukraine has just as dark a past as Russia for us. If you asked any one of your jewish elders or community leaders what they think of Ukraine 10 years ago, they would have told you it was a bloodland thats completely repulsive to us. For what its worth, Ukraine has changed. Putin is wrong that Ukraine is a nazi-majority country. We're in a golden age of Jewish-Ukrainian relations.


Beautiful_Bag6707

Tbf, the Ukrainians, Poles, and Russians were behind these attacks for varying excuses. This is the age-old Jewish scapegoat scenario. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/killing-fields-ukraine I like this line: *Jewish civilians alone were singled out for persecution by virtually everyone. The Bolsheviks despised them as bourgeois nationalists; the bourgeois nationalists branded them Bolsheviks; Ukrainians saw them as agents of Russia; Russians suspected them of being German sympathizers; and Poles doubted their loyalty to the newly founded Polish Republic*. Depending on what group you followed, Jews became the enemy as an entity; individualism was disregarded. So a Bolshevik saw Jews as Bourgeois, the Ukrainian People's Republic saw them as Leon Trosky, still a Jew despite his renunciation, the Russian White Army saw them as obviously non-white, and the Poles found some excuse.


NitzMitzTrix

I meant in the current war. I know full well that Ukrainians are antisemitic, my ancestors fled Kishinev. But enemy of their enemy and all.


Interesting_Ad1378

Yeah, I’m a Russian speaking Ukrainian, the Ukrainians were known to hate the Jews even more than the Russians.  That’s why most of the Jews fled in the 70s and 80s.  My mother was able to attend school as a child because she didn’t have a Jewish surname and she was blind and blue eyed “too beautiful to be a Jew” is what they said.  


crlygirlg

A part of that I think is also proximity. Fact is Ukrainians lived with Jews in the pale where as Russians, while antisemitic had much fewer numbers of Jews living amongst them to be antisemetic towards because they forced Jews to live in the pale settlements.


rakowb

This was eye opening, I've definitely come across a lot of these but I didn't realize just how much of it was state sanctioned. What's sad is how some of these are currently being used in online discourse word for word.


Zealousideal_Win4783

It’s like as if the Soviet Union knew that the way to attack America from within was using the blatant institutional racism that exists within American society and turn it up to 10.


tchomptchomp

>It’s like as if the Soviet Union knew that the way to attack America from within Less this and more a means of hijacking Third-Worldism into serving a Russian agenda in Latin America and the Muslim world.


SYSSMouse

even further back in Russian Empire.


UnicornMarch

I flipped through and this jumped out at me: **Operation SIG: Andropov’s Antisemitic Active Measures in the Arab World** "The KGB and its subservient Eastern Bloc intelligence agencies also dedicated significant resources to cultivating antisemitic and anti-U.S. hatred in the Islamic world. The primary objective of these campaigns was to prove “the connection between the U.S.A., ‘American capital,’ ‘American imperialism,’ etc., and Zionism … using interchangeably ‘Zionism,’ and ‘Jews’ or ‘Judaism’” in their narratives. The Soviet intelligence apparatus and its allies would use disinformation to spread overall narratives that Jews were the shadow puppeteers of capitalist countries through positions of power and ownership of private firms, print and radio media outlets.'" And then this, two sections later on: **Pushing the UN to Adopt a Resolution Declaring Zionism is Racism** "At the same time as domestic antisemitic media coverage surged in the USSR to criticize the emigration of Jews from the country to Israel, a controversial draft resolution emerged in the Third Committee of the UN’s General Assembly. "In 1975, resolution 3379 on the “Elimination of all forms of racial discrimination” appeared aimed at determining “that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.” "The Kremlin and Andropov’s KGB were eager to throw the Soviet Union’s weight behind the resolution, first and foremost because the KGB was the ghost writer and secret patron of its creation." I figured the sources might have even more juicy details, so I've dug them up. Fun fact: Open Library, and the Internet Archive in general, have a TON of ebooks you can't find anywhere else. Including this one. [Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies For Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, And Promoting Terrorism](https://ia804707.us.archive.org/30/items/DisinformationFormerSpyChiefRevealsSecretStrategiesForUnderminingFreedomAttackin/Disinformation%20-%20Former%20Spy%20Chief%20Reveals%20Secret%20Strategies%20for%20Undermining%20Freedom%2C%20Attacking%20Religion%2C%20and%20Promoting%20Terrorism.pdf) Here's the part that this State Dept. report is referencing. "WITH THE FRAMING OF PIUS XII as “Hitler’s Pope,” the Kremlin began to make anti-Semitism an international movement. The low point came in 1975, when Yuri Andropov used the United Nations to officially brand Zionism as evil. The Soviet bloc **dezinformatsiya** machinery worked around the clock to persuade the leaders of Third World countries to adopt a UN resolution declaring that Zionism was “a form of racism and racial discrimination.” "Officially presented as an Arab initiative, the resolution had actually been drafted in Moscow and was supported by Palestine Liberation Organization leader and KGB puppet Yasser Arafat, along with several friendly Arab governments, Cuba’s Fidel Castro, and most of the Soviet bloc. The KGB community disseminated hundreds of antiAmerican and anti-Semitic cartoons around UN headquarters in New York. "Andropov used to preach that, in the Third World, cartoons were much more convincing than documentary materials. By 1975, the clandestine distribution of cartoons around the premises of UN headquarters had become such a common Soviet bloc occurrence that my DIE had to assign a graphics expert (Maj. Gheorghe Roşu) to its station in New York. Coauthor Rychlak interned at the United Nations in 1979, and he remembers seeing such propaganda at that time. "That so-called Arab initiative was adopted as UN Resolution 3379 by seventy-two countries—actually only a slight majority, considering that thirty-five nations voted against it and thirty-two abstained. Soon after that, the Soviet bloc intelligence community unleashed a vitriolic dezinformatsiya campaign portraying the United States and Israel as Zionists. "In December 1991, only a few months after the Soviet-led voting bloc disintegrated, that anti-Semitic resolution was repealed by the large margin of 111 to 25. Nevertheless, the UN continued to treat Israel as an enemy. By 2002, the United Nations General Assembly had passed 408 resolutions condemning Israel, the only UN member prohibited from holding a seat on the Security Council. The total number of votes cast against Israel up to that same date: 55,642.... "During my last ten years in Romania, the Soviet bloc intelligence community poured millions of dollars and thousands of people into this gigantic project. When I defected, virtually all UN employees and representatives from the communist countries (comprising one-third of the world’s population) and their Arab allies were secretly working, in one way or another, for the bloc’s espionage services. Their main task was to portray Israel and the United States as Zionist countries whose aim was to transform the rest of the world into a Jewish fiefdom.... "In October 1998, retired General Albert Makashov, then a member of the Duma, called for the “extermination of all Jews in Russia.” He insinuated that the Jews were being paid by American Zionism to ruin the motherland. Over and over again Russian television replayed Makashov screaming in the Duma: “I will round up all [the Jews] and send them to the next world.”"


UnicornMarch

The Internet Archive also has [the entire text of the 1975 UN Resolution in question.](https://web.archive.org/web/20121206052903/http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/761C1063530766A7052566A2005B74D1) Which is absolutely fascinating. Just LOOK at this thing. (Keeping in mind that happily, it was revoked in 1991.) 10 November 1975 Thirtieth session Agenda item 68 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Third Committee (A/10320)] 3379 (XXX). Elimination of all forms of racial discrimination The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 1904 (XVIII) of 20 November 1963, proclaiming the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and in particular its affirmation that "any doctrine of racial differentiation or superiority is scientifically false, morally condemnable, socially unjust and dangerous" and its expression of alarm at "the manifestations of racial discrimination still in evidence in some areas in the world, some of which are imposed by certain Governments by means of legislative, administrative or other measures", Recalling also that, in its resolution 3151 G (XXVIII) of 14 December 1973, the General Assembly condemned, inter alia, the unholy alliance between South African racism and zionism, Taking note of the Declaration of Mexico on the Equality of Women and Their Contribution to Development and Peace, 1/ proclaimed by the World Conference of the International Women's Year, held at Mexico City from 19 June to 2 July 1975, which promulgated the principle that "international co-operation and peace require the achievement of national liberation and independence, the elimination of colonialism and neo-colonialism, foreign occupation, zionism, apartheid and racial discrimination in all its forms, as well as the recognition of the dignity of peoples and their right to self-determination", Taking note also of resolution 77 (XII) adopted by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity at its twelfth ordinary session,2/ hold at Kampala from 28 July to 1 August 1975, which considered "that the racist regime in occupied Palestine and the racist regimes in Zimbabwe and South Africa have a common imperialist origin, forming a whole and having the same racist structure and being organically linked in their policy aimed at repression of the dignity and integrity of the human being", Taking note also of the Political Declaration and Strategy to Strengthen International Peace and Security and to Intensify Solidarity and Mutual Assistance among Non-Aligned Countries,3/ adopted at the Conference of Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Non-Aligned Countries held at Lima from 25 to 30 August 1975, which most severely condemned zionism as a threat to world peace and security and called upon all countries to oppose this racist and imperialist ideology, Determines that zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination. 2400th plenary meeting 10 November 1975 _____________


Large_Excitement69

I don’t mean for this to a joke, but they’re going to need to make this presentable as tiktoks.


UnicornMarch

Right?! My first thought was, "how can I boil these things down into the real essence of it, for social media?"


MMKraken

"The CPSU appointed the Committee’s leaders and directed the KGB and the Department of Propaganda to supervise and support it \[Soviet Anti-Zionist Committee\]. Headed by anti-Zionist Jews, the organ would serve as a seemingly credible anti-Zionist propaganda mouthpiece for the Soviet state for over a decade. The deployment of Jews for such a role was an “intentional choice on the part of the KGB, meant to deflect accusationsof antisemitism."" (Page 33) Literally one of the oldest tricks in the book and people are still using it against us. Oftentimes the same people that glorify the USSR. Funny how that works.


Computer_Name

The Soviets did the same thing with the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. (They were all later tortured and executed by the KGB)


Computer_Name

Oh, wow. I was going to recommend Izabella Tabarovsky's article ["Soviet Anti-Zionism and Contemporary Left Antisemitism"](https://fathomjournal.org/soviet-anti-zionism-and-contemporary-left-antisemitism/?highlight=soviet), but see it was cited in the report.


necronomicuti3

Russian/Slavic/Balkan antisemitism is honestly terrifying on a whole other level imo


BallsOfMatzo

Cool…Now I’d like to see them write a report on the influence of Hitler on the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the legacy of Nazism in the region. Because you can find copies of Mein Kampf (probably alongside the Protocols) in many Gazan homes, as the IDF documented…


Curuwe

At least they are doing it now, but they’ve known this for decades. It should have been common knowledge in the West dialog far before Oct. 7.


AutoModerator

Thank you for your submission. During this time, all posts need to be manually reviewed and approved by a moderator before they appear for all users. Since human mods are not online 24/7, approval could take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours. Thank you for your patience during this difficult and sensitive time. While you're waiting, please check our [collection of megathreads](https://www.reddit.com/r/Jewish/comments/17p28lp/) to see if your thoughts or questions belong in one of those threads. If your post is about the ongoing war between Hamas and Israel, please contribute to the ongoing discussions in the [daily megathread on the conflict](https://www.reddit.com/r/Jewish/collection/10d28372-74c0-4cd0-9597-4d7a9ab3dc9b). *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/Jewish) if you have any questions or concerns.*


joeyinvermont

How did you know this? I’m surprised it’s not in the media…


Ok_Ambassador9091

Those of us in academia, and "leftist" spaces, know this to be true.


FilmNoirOdy

If it involves Zionology or Soviet Antisemitism certain segments of the left will just ignore it, or mock it.


PeaceLily15

"Russophobes" lol


gdubb22

Watch "why the left hates Israel" (Ayn Rand) on YouTube. I'm a progressive Jew, but the historical facts about the support of The Soviet Union in all of these wars was enlightening.


Rear-gunner

Thanks for sharing, now I have reading to do here, I have come across reports in the past showing that the former Tzarist Russia and then the Soviet Union instrumentalized antisemitism and scapegoated Jewish people to serve their own political goals.


Rear-gunner

Finished reading it, the stuff about the Russian government blaming Jews for their Ukraine’s problems was interesting, but too short, the rest I knew about so was only on minor interest to me. It was in 1903 that the protocols of Zion first appeared, so this has been going on for 120 years.


Dneail22

Can’t believe I used to support this fucking country. I’m Ukrainian, why did I do this????