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Fathom Highlight | Izabella Tabarovsky on Soviet Anti-Zionism and Contemporary Left Antisemitism / 7 May / 2019

Our Fathom Highlight this week is an examination of Soviet Anti Zionism and its implications for contemporary Left antisemitism by Izabella Tabarovsky, a scholar with the Kennan Institute (Wilson Center) in Washington DC. In her essay, Tabarovsky not only lays bare the entire shameful story of Soviet Judeophobia, focusing in particular on the propaganda and disinformation campaigns of the period spanning 1967-1988, but shows us that, to quote William Faulkner, ‘the past is not dead, it is not even past.’ Also published this week is an examination of the works of Arab-Israeli writer, Sayed Kashua by writer and journalist, Liam Hoare.

Our Image of the Week is a ceremony marking the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, at Massuah Museum in Tel Yitzhak, 1 May 2019. Image by Flash90.

Our Voice of the Week is White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, speaking to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy’s Executive Director, Rob Satloff about the Trump administration’s Middle East peace efforts, 2 May.

Soviet Anti-Zionism and Contemporary Left Antisemitism

by Izabella Tabarovsky | May 7, 2019

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For many decades, virulently antisemitic forms of ‘anti-Zionism’ were central to the cold war propaganda of the Communist states. In this powerful essay Izabella Tabarovsky not only lays bare the entire shameful story of Soviet Judeophobia but shows us that, to quote William Faulkner, ‘the past is not dead, it is not even past’. 'This essay is also available in Polish.  Introduction In 1985, the KGB-supervised Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public, known by its Russian acronym as AKSO, issued a brochure, Criminal Alliance of Zionism...
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In His Novels, And His Columns, Sayed Kashua Examines His Divided Self
by Liam Hoare

‘I wanted to say to my wife that this is really the end, it’s finished,’ the Arab-Israeli writer Sayed Kashua said in his foreboding July...
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