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Izabella Tabarovsky, "Soviet Anti-Zionism and Contemporary Left Antisemitism" (2019) https://fathomjournal.org/soviet-anti-zionism-and-contemporary-left-antisemitism/

Izabella Tabarovsky, "Zombie Anti-Zionism" (2024) https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/zombie-anti-zionism

In the first piece the author traces origin and developement of the distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism in Soviet propaganda, primarily in the mid 1960s to the late 1980s. Here she concentrates on the USSR and the relevance of this propaganda in domestic societal control

In the second piece she describes in a tour d'horizon how anti-Zionism between the late 1950s to 1990 provided the USSR with a very effective tool against the West by uniting various anti-Western sentiments and movements. Combining allegations of imperialism, genocide, apartheid, Nazism, it unites Western communists (and the Left in general), African, South-American, and Asian liberation struggles, Arab nationalism, as well as Jihadists.

In both pieces Tabarovsky describes genalogies, e.g., how in 1982 Abbas wrote a Ph.D thesis equating Zionism and Nazism at the prestigious Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow.

Immensely helpful, not just with regard to the origin of late 20th century Western anti-Semitism on the Left (e.g., George Galloway, Ken Livingstone, Jeremy Corbyn) but even more with regard to the anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism in Arab (e.g., Gamal Abdel Nasser, Mahmoud Abbas) and Latin American nations (e.g., Lula Da Silva, Gustavo Petro).

«What’s so interesting about this half-century-old Soviet propaganda is how precisely it mirrors the language emanating from the anti-Israel left since Oct. 7. Today’s left, too, speaks of Israel as a racist, imperialist, and colonialist state; equates it with Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa; disparages Jews for having turned into oppressors; and proclaims Palestinians’ inalienable right to resist their colonial oppression by any means necessary.»

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