The Soviet Union disappeared, but Soviet propaganda never did. It metastasized, moving from state propaganda into universities, NGOs, media ecosystems, and eventually internet platforms.
The conduit here between the obviously false and malevolent propaganda of the Soviets and soft-hearted, gullible Western liberals is of course our Left professoriate, who never met an anti-Western crusade they didn't like, especially if it allows them to somehow play a starring role as revolutionaries with hearts on fire for Justice while never having to leave campus and sacrifice tenure, checks, and book deals.
How much difference is there really between a Soviet commissar and a Professor of Oppression Studies, esp those from the Edward Said School of Applied Anti-Zionism? They both imagine themselves as a superior caste enlightened by "critical consciousness" whose utopian goals allow them to utilize any means for their desired ends (lying, censorship, support for terrorism etc); they both like to play fast and loose with facts and logic but are masters in the black arts of moral blackmail and emotional manipulation; they both have zero tolerance for dissent and open debate and would rather cancel an opponent than entertain their ideas; and they both decided that the one thing standing between them and the total power they crave to install their program is the Jews, who stubbornly refuse simple categorization and whose uses as scapegoat serve multiple purposes, such as group cohesion, group policing, and keeping the threat of violence on a constant low simmer and aimed outwards at the enemies of the Revolution.
The Soviet Union may have lost the Cold War, but it conquered American academia, where in the Humanities Depts of all our most prestigious universities there are more communists than conservatives and where a burning hatred of the Zionist entity is now a mandatory belief, with all apostates hounded as "baby killers" and all Jews allowed entry only once they denounce the Jewish state and any support for it.
American academia is where free thought goes to die and has been transformed into an enemy of all the world's Jews, except for the anti-Jewish tribe of "As A Jew"s. What is it about communism (aka socialism/democratic socialism etc) that makes it eventually become rabidly anti-Semitic? Either way, just as with their Soviet parents, hopefully this post-10/7 spasm of Jew hate represents the last dying gasps of a lie machine that's doomed to collapse under its own contradictions.
The difference is those "professors" can only destroy people's careers. At least for now. The commisars can toss people in the gulag for the rest of their lives. This is what American leftists aspire to.
Yes, the Soviets seized power by shedding blood, their bourgeois Western epigones seize power by shedding tears, as in: Think of the (Palestinian) Children! or, Your words are violence to the tender ears of the marginalized!
Of course I'd much rather live under the reign of our impotent professoriate than of the gruesome Soviets, but they are birds of a feather or members of the same family, like a T-Rex and a parakeet.
Yes, this is how blood libels work. They are most dangerous when supported by authority figures with access to the minds of children and young adults. The seeds are in the past, but young proplr are usually not conscious of how and why things played out in history.
Russias jew-hatred probably stemmed from its first empire in conjunction with the Eastern Orthodox Church. Thousands of Jewishbxhildren were abducted by Russia similarly to the abductions of Native Americans in the US and Canada. And, of course the protocols of the elders of zion demonstrated Russian skills at propaganda.
The angry children of the campus Infantada don't know that every slogan they chant was first crafted by the empire of lies that was the Soviet Union and also don't know that while they may see themselves as secular individuals pursuing "Justice", they're simply reenacting one of the oldest rituals of the Christian West: wheeling out the Jewish scapegoat to be roasted.
One other thing that they don't know and their teachers refuse to see: that once the Jewish scapegoat appears, this usually signals the start of intense social unraveling, which often includes violence, wars, and collapse.
They will sit in the rubble of their own making and look to blame someone else. I wonder who it'll be...
I know that this is off the topic but I desperately need our help!
The last 48 hours have been the most frustrating I have had in my life. Initially, I was attempting for put together a volunteer force to protect the nascent revolution in Iran. Defend the protestors, secure airfields to move materials into Iran (Medical and support). We were immediately shutdown by the State Department and Military. They weren't interested.
So we decided to do it independently, at least get medical supplies, equipment and support to the Iranian freedom fighters. Although we found donors even a cargo plane we could not get releases, visas for transshipping or permits to move. When we started crossing the line we were threatened with prison!
I ask people to write your congressmen; ask them to at least allow us to provide support for the Iranian protestors and revolutionaries. We endanger nothing but our own lives. If we want to risk out lives to support another countries fight for freedom so be it! The more noise you make the better the chance that our government will say hell with it let them go!
If you really care about freedom, Iranian fight for freedom, make as much noise as you can. I don't need your money, I need your help!
Exactly right except I would add the end game of the Soviet indoctrination is ultimately the destruction of the West and its replacement with a Marxist framework. The Muslims are a useful ally in the Soviet created popular front because they are motivated, energetic and share the common enemy of Western liberal civilization. While the West has been sleeping entire institutions including academia have been entirely conquered by the Red Green alliance. It will be difficult to extricate ourselves from it even if we choose to. Entire generations have been indoctrinated.
The 1979 revolution in Iran was more Marxist than Islamist. In the end,it was the Marxists who were mass murdered, 40,000. They were the useful idiots for Khomeini. But Marxists are better at tearing down a functioning society than building actual help for the average person
It appears as if we are living in a world where nothing is true. Your article covers Soviet/Russian propaganda tools and methods, but the exact same thing is true of Qatar, who seem to be imbedded in American Universities, as well as the usual propaganda, and we have to discuss China’s overriding spying and influence.What chance do we even have of ever discerning the truth?
So-called "Communism," the "Communist Manifesto," and all relevant and fundamental pronouncements of "Marxism" are completely clear and unambiguous: "Capitalism" must be destroyed 100%, by any and all possible means.
Therefore it is a complete riddle why and how free societies can allow even the slightest "Socialism"/ "Communism" and not totally forbid any marketing for the Crime of "Communism"/ "Socialism".
The glorification of the criminal "Soviet Union" and its "communism" was one of that means of murdering that are not just "allowed" in "Communism", but clearly demanded.
But "The West" has learned NOTHING from experience with the "Real" Communism.
The "French Revolution," as a precursor to "Communism," and its ruthless reign of terror, along with the extermination orgies of the "Jacobineans" which also represent the first blueprint for genocides and for Auschwitz, the mass annihilation of human beings, tell us everything one needs to know about "anti-bourgeois" and so-called "revolutionary" violence.
The human cost of "Communism" by far surpasses even the mass exterminations of fascist nationalism (in Germany "National Socialism") and collectivism.
Years before the first German concentration camps and ninety years before the invasion of the neo-Soviet dictator Putin, the Stalinist Soviet Union murdered and starved seven million Ukrainians to crush the Ukrainian resistance of independent small and large farmers.
None of this, however, woke (!) any interest in the self-proclaimed "revolutionary" primarily student "demonstrators" and later terrorists—the self-styled "progressives" of the 1960s and 1970s—nor, even then, the millennia-old slave and master-race "culture" of the "Arab world".
All that matters for "Socialists/ "Communists" is if s.o. is an enemy of "The West" and "Capitalism": then they are allowed to do ANYTHING "in that name".
After the crimes and massacres of fascism/nationalism in Germany and other parts of Europe, as well as in parts of Asia, right-wing fascist/collectivist parties were more or less banned, and a collective "Never Again" resounded.
Although the crimes of "communism" were and are far more extensive, longer-lasting, and many times more numerous, the cry of "Never again" was never directed at "left-wing" ideologies.
"Communism" / "Socialism" continues unabated to spread its lies and unfulfillable promises, which regularly and inevitably lead to the opposite: oppression, persecution, surveillance, tyranny by "elites", societal impoverishment, hatred of those willing to work hard, individualists, freedom-loving individuals, the "rich" and any "non-communists", free markets and science, and so on.
It is one of the greatest crimes - and riddles/ enigmas - in human history why "communism" / "socialism" is not subject to the "Never again" rule, why it is not strictly **banned once and for all**.
The question is how much more suffering such ideologies will be allowed to inflict on humanity, and it clearly seems that humanity will only "learn" when it is too late, and when "left-wing" collectivism has (once again and) irreversibly brought misery and tyranny to the world, putting all of humanity in chains.
It is no coincidence that so-called "Islam" has repeatedly been an ally of the ("atheist") "left" until these useful idiots have brought "Islam" to power - that will annihilate all "Leftists" brutally as in Iran 1979, and which will forcibly install the collective nihilism grotesquely disguised as a "religion."
To this day American leftists many of whom are now considered mainstream Democrats maintain a soft spot for Castro's Cuba and other paradise that had the temerity to oppose American free enterprise and support Bolshevik tyrannies
Excellent analysis. Only the eternal handmaiden to this lurks unseen: antisemitism - the Sleeping Ugly, waiting for Prince Evil to awaken her yet again to be welcomed by a world grown weary of feeling guilty about its monstrous treatment of its Jews. Now they can be accused of every crime they suffered. Was a word coined to describe the effort to obliterate them completely? Accuse the jews of genocide, even if it defies facts and logic and strips the word of its meaning. Call the Jews by the name of their murderers - Naziis. Guilt is erased, and the world’s beloved scapegoat - antisemitism- is brought back to life again with the kiss of eternal hatred
Oy, and the anti-Zionist Jews are making life more complicated. Being a guest in this diaspora makes me nervous because my “hosts” are now trained by Qatar funded professors. You are not home if you don’t have a home.
"The first leader of Arabs living in the region of "Palestine’, was a Nazi and a Jew hater.
Check the facts.
"We needed to instill a Nazi-style hatred for the Jews throughout the Islamic world, and to turn this weapon of the emotions into a terrorist bloodbath against Israel and its main supporter, the United States." — Yuri Andropov, Chairman of the Soviet KGB, later General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, as reported by General lon Pacepa, former chief of Romania's intelligence services."
"Secret KGB documents reveal just how deeply involved the Soviet Union was in the spilling of Israeli blood. The Russian spy agency provided Palestinian terror organizations with funds, training and arms, running agents like 'Krotov' - aka Mahmoud Abbas, 'Aref' - or Yasser Arafat, and 'Nationalist,' who was behind several plane hijackings long before 9/11."
"Soviet (and CCP) Subversion of the Free World Press, 1984 Complete Interview - Yuri Bezmenov
Yuri Bezmenov: The Life and Legacy of the Influential KGB Informant Who Defected to the West:
Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov, was a Soviet journalist for RIA Novosti and a former PGU KGB informant who defected to Canada. After being assigned to a station in India, Bezmenov eventually grew to love the people and the culture of India."
Stalin’s Antisemitism, as malicious as the Tsars, started after WWII. The NKVD secret police and after his death the KGB dispensed anti-Jewish, anti-Western, anti-capitalism, anti-democracy, propaganda to the Arab and Muslim world. To generate Muslim/Arab revolts. From the 1960s on, Soviet Russia & Communist bloc countries used the KGB to work with the PLO to redefine the Palestinian cause, it became an anti-imperialist cause, appealed to the Left and the Islamic world.
At the UN Soviet Russia, Communist bloc countries and Palestine Liberation Organization joined forces with international Leftists, Marxists, Progressives, against the west and against Jewish connection to Israel. Stalin’s doctrine is used not only to harm Israel, but to weaken western way of life and capitalism. The engineered lie became a weapon, today spread by Far Right, Left, Marxists, Islamists, academia, media, politicians.
Excellent article but it will never gain traction with those whose minds need to change. What is disturbing is that so many Jewish organizations have aligned themselves with the very forces that seek the destruction of not just Israel, but Judaism itself. Even today we have milquetoast condemnations (and that is being generous) coming from leadership organizations like the AJC, ADL, the JCRCs of the growing hatred coming from progressive quarters. They have shown a lack of forceful repudiation of what is occurring in the media, entertainment and academia. What is even more astounding is their continued focus and embedding themselves in issues that estrange the Jewish community from those who support individuality, the rule of law (and not anarchy), and the freedoms that made us successful in the U.S. Where have Jews prospered the most? It has been in the U.S. where the spirit of capitalism, even with its faults, provided the fertile soil for our success. While the majority of leftist Jews continue to say we must be a lamp unto nations, we can do so without having to self-immolate Mr. Hoffman's article should be a wakeup call to our so-called Jewish leadership.
Hoffman nails it: this isn’t spontaneous outrage, it’s legacy Soviet narrative warfare with a software update. The USSR is gone, but its propaganda architecture lives on—embedded in universities, NGOs, newsrooms, and now algorithms. It trained the West to see one conflict through a permanent moral lens while averting its eyes everywhere else. Iran butchers its own people by the tens of thousands? Silence. Gaza produces curated images on demand? Total moral panic. That’s not compassion—it’s conditioning. The genius of the system is that it convinces people they’re thinking freely while their empathy is being steered. Propaganda today doesn’t censor; it floods. And most never notice they’re drowning.
I read “History Upside Down,” by David Meir Levi about 10 years ago and it was a mind-blower. The scales fell from my eyes. I felt like it provided all the missing pieces that helped you understand the whole scam of "Palestinianism" from start to finish. And it has puzzled me that Levi's book never made much of a splash, and that he has never had any presence in popular media. It's strange how there is sometimes no relation between the value of information provided and the extent of its popularity and diffusion.
Levi's book is succinct, but nothing can beat Joshua's one-line summary of our present state of affairs in the ongoing drama of "Free, free Palestine.":
"What we are watching is a grotesque gaslighting campaign, performed in the language of compassion and staged for Western consumption."
Did you think those who protect the Democracies of The West cannot fight off both Totalitarian re-emergent Nazism AND totalitarian Islam. Of course we can do both at the same time. Today’s Russia under Putin must learn this lesson too: Islamist Terrorists have Moscow in their sights whatever the current Alliances Russia has in the Third World and The Middle East. How do we know this: Because Islamist Terrorists, including Muslim Terrorists from Tajikistan, have attacked Russia and Her civilians many times in the past ten years, in the name of their religion.
The conduit here between the obviously false and malevolent propaganda of the Soviets and soft-hearted, gullible Western liberals is of course our Left professoriate, who never met an anti-Western crusade they didn't like, especially if it allows them to somehow play a starring role as revolutionaries with hearts on fire for Justice while never having to leave campus and sacrifice tenure, checks, and book deals.
How much difference is there really between a Soviet commissar and a Professor of Oppression Studies, esp those from the Edward Said School of Applied Anti-Zionism? They both imagine themselves as a superior caste enlightened by "critical consciousness" whose utopian goals allow them to utilize any means for their desired ends (lying, censorship, support for terrorism etc); they both like to play fast and loose with facts and logic but are masters in the black arts of moral blackmail and emotional manipulation; they both have zero tolerance for dissent and open debate and would rather cancel an opponent than entertain their ideas; and they both decided that the one thing standing between them and the total power they crave to install their program is the Jews, who stubbornly refuse simple categorization and whose uses as scapegoat serve multiple purposes, such as group cohesion, group policing, and keeping the threat of violence on a constant low simmer and aimed outwards at the enemies of the Revolution.
The Soviet Union may have lost the Cold War, but it conquered American academia, where in the Humanities Depts of all our most prestigious universities there are more communists than conservatives and where a burning hatred of the Zionist entity is now a mandatory belief, with all apostates hounded as "baby killers" and all Jews allowed entry only once they denounce the Jewish state and any support for it.
American academia is where free thought goes to die and has been transformed into an enemy of all the world's Jews, except for the anti-Jewish tribe of "As A Jew"s. What is it about communism (aka socialism/democratic socialism etc) that makes it eventually become rabidly anti-Semitic? Either way, just as with their Soviet parents, hopefully this post-10/7 spasm of Jew hate represents the last dying gasps of a lie machine that's doomed to collapse under its own contradictions.
The difference is those "professors" can only destroy people's careers. At least for now. The commisars can toss people in the gulag for the rest of their lives. This is what American leftists aspire to.
Not so!
Those professors have miseducated and brainwashed the young “liberation” educators who now “teach Palestine” to American K-12 kids.
It’s a five-alarm fire because every year, more Jew-hating youth - who don’t believe in objective truth or facts - turn 18!
Yes, the Soviets seized power by shedding blood, their bourgeois Western epigones seize power by shedding tears, as in: Think of the (Palestinian) Children! or, Your words are violence to the tender ears of the marginalized!
Of course I'd much rather live under the reign of our impotent professoriate than of the gruesome Soviets, but they are birds of a feather or members of the same family, like a T-Rex and a parakeet.
Yes, this is how blood libels work. They are most dangerous when supported by authority figures with access to the minds of children and young adults. The seeds are in the past, but young proplr are usually not conscious of how and why things played out in history.
Russias jew-hatred probably stemmed from its first empire in conjunction with the Eastern Orthodox Church. Thousands of Jewishbxhildren were abducted by Russia similarly to the abductions of Native Americans in the US and Canada. And, of course the protocols of the elders of zion demonstrated Russian skills at propaganda.
The angry children of the campus Infantada don't know that every slogan they chant was first crafted by the empire of lies that was the Soviet Union and also don't know that while they may see themselves as secular individuals pursuing "Justice", they're simply reenacting one of the oldest rituals of the Christian West: wheeling out the Jewish scapegoat to be roasted.
One other thing that they don't know and their teachers refuse to see: that once the Jewish scapegoat appears, this usually signals the start of intense social unraveling, which often includes violence, wars, and collapse.
They will sit in the rubble of their own making and look to blame someone else. I wonder who it'll be...
My Friends...
I know that this is off the topic but I desperately need our help!
The last 48 hours have been the most frustrating I have had in my life. Initially, I was attempting for put together a volunteer force to protect the nascent revolution in Iran. Defend the protestors, secure airfields to move materials into Iran (Medical and support). We were immediately shutdown by the State Department and Military. They weren't interested.
So we decided to do it independently, at least get medical supplies, equipment and support to the Iranian freedom fighters. Although we found donors even a cargo plane we could not get releases, visas for transshipping or permits to move. When we started crossing the line we were threatened with prison!
I ask people to write your congressmen; ask them to at least allow us to provide support for the Iranian protestors and revolutionaries. We endanger nothing but our own lives. If we want to risk out lives to support another countries fight for freedom so be it! The more noise you make the better the chance that our government will say hell with it let them go!
If you really care about freedom, Iranian fight for freedom, make as much noise as you can. I don't need your money, I need your help!
Iran will be free!
Sword of God!
Exactly right except I would add the end game of the Soviet indoctrination is ultimately the destruction of the West and its replacement with a Marxist framework. The Muslims are a useful ally in the Soviet created popular front because they are motivated, energetic and share the common enemy of Western liberal civilization. While the West has been sleeping entire institutions including academia have been entirely conquered by the Red Green alliance. It will be difficult to extricate ourselves from it even if we choose to. Entire generations have been indoctrinated.
The 1979 revolution in Iran was more Marxist than Islamist. In the end,it was the Marxists who were mass murdered, 40,000. They were the useful idiots for Khomeini. But Marxists are better at tearing down a functioning society than building actual help for the average person
Or, to put it another way, no Jews, no news.
It appears as if we are living in a world where nothing is true. Your article covers Soviet/Russian propaganda tools and methods, but the exact same thing is true of Qatar, who seem to be imbedded in American Universities, as well as the usual propaganda, and we have to discuss China’s overriding spying and influence.What chance do we even have of ever discerning the truth?
So-called "Communism," the "Communist Manifesto," and all relevant and fundamental pronouncements of "Marxism" are completely clear and unambiguous: "Capitalism" must be destroyed 100%, by any and all possible means.
Therefore it is a complete riddle why and how free societies can allow even the slightest "Socialism"/ "Communism" and not totally forbid any marketing for the Crime of "Communism"/ "Socialism".
The glorification of the criminal "Soviet Union" and its "communism" was one of that means of murdering that are not just "allowed" in "Communism", but clearly demanded.
But "The West" has learned NOTHING from experience with the "Real" Communism.
The "French Revolution," as a precursor to "Communism," and its ruthless reign of terror, along with the extermination orgies of the "Jacobineans" which also represent the first blueprint for genocides and for Auschwitz, the mass annihilation of human beings, tell us everything one needs to know about "anti-bourgeois" and so-called "revolutionary" violence.
The human cost of "Communism" by far surpasses even the mass exterminations of fascist nationalism (in Germany "National Socialism") and collectivism.
Years before the first German concentration camps and ninety years before the invasion of the neo-Soviet dictator Putin, the Stalinist Soviet Union murdered and starved seven million Ukrainians to crush the Ukrainian resistance of independent small and large farmers.
None of this, however, woke (!) any interest in the self-proclaimed "revolutionary" primarily student "demonstrators" and later terrorists—the self-styled "progressives" of the 1960s and 1970s—nor, even then, the millennia-old slave and master-race "culture" of the "Arab world".
All that matters for "Socialists/ "Communists" is if s.o. is an enemy of "The West" and "Capitalism": then they are allowed to do ANYTHING "in that name".
After the crimes and massacres of fascism/nationalism in Germany and other parts of Europe, as well as in parts of Asia, right-wing fascist/collectivist parties were more or less banned, and a collective "Never Again" resounded.
Although the crimes of "communism" were and are far more extensive, longer-lasting, and many times more numerous, the cry of "Never again" was never directed at "left-wing" ideologies.
"Communism" / "Socialism" continues unabated to spread its lies and unfulfillable promises, which regularly and inevitably lead to the opposite: oppression, persecution, surveillance, tyranny by "elites", societal impoverishment, hatred of those willing to work hard, individualists, freedom-loving individuals, the "rich" and any "non-communists", free markets and science, and so on.
It is one of the greatest crimes - and riddles/ enigmas - in human history why "communism" / "socialism" is not subject to the "Never again" rule, why it is not strictly **banned once and for all**.
The question is how much more suffering such ideologies will be allowed to inflict on humanity, and it clearly seems that humanity will only "learn" when it is too late, and when "left-wing" collectivism has (once again and) irreversibly brought misery and tyranny to the world, putting all of humanity in chains.
It is no coincidence that so-called "Islam" has repeatedly been an ally of the ("atheist") "left" until these useful idiots have brought "Islam" to power - that will annihilate all "Leftists" brutally as in Iran 1979, and which will forcibly install the collective nihilism grotesquely disguised as a "religion."
To this day American leftists many of whom are now considered mainstream Democrats maintain a soft spot for Castro's Cuba and other paradise that had the temerity to oppose American free enterprise and support Bolshevik tyrannies
Great article.
See also "The Language of Soviet Propaganda: Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred."
https://quillette.com/2024/01/11/the-language-of-soviet-propaganda/
Excellent analysis. Only the eternal handmaiden to this lurks unseen: antisemitism - the Sleeping Ugly, waiting for Prince Evil to awaken her yet again to be welcomed by a world grown weary of feeling guilty about its monstrous treatment of its Jews. Now they can be accused of every crime they suffered. Was a word coined to describe the effort to obliterate them completely? Accuse the jews of genocide, even if it defies facts and logic and strips the word of its meaning. Call the Jews by the name of their murderers - Naziis. Guilt is erased, and the world’s beloved scapegoat - antisemitism- is brought back to life again with the kiss of eternal hatred
Oy, and the anti-Zionist Jews are making life more complicated. Being a guest in this diaspora makes me nervous because my “hosts” are now trained by Qatar funded professors. You are not home if you don’t have a home.
Pierre Rehov Nazi Soviet Palestinians.
"The first leader of Arabs living in the region of "Palestine’, was a Nazi and a Jew hater.
Check the facts.
"We needed to instill a Nazi-style hatred for the Jews throughout the Islamic world, and to turn this weapon of the emotions into a terrorist bloodbath against Israel and its main supporter, the United States." — Yuri Andropov, Chairman of the Soviet KGB, later General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, as reported by General lon Pacepa, former chief of Romania's intelligence services."
https://youtu.be/cwfDVkXEo-o
"Secret KGB documents reveal just how deeply involved the Soviet Union was in the spilling of Israeli blood. The Russian spy agency provided Palestinian terror organizations with funds, training and arms, running agents like 'Krotov' - aka Mahmoud Abbas, 'Aref' - or Yasser Arafat, and 'Nationalist,' who was behind several plane hijackings long before 9/11."
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4874089,00.html
https://israelbehindthenews.com/2023/05/02/palestinian-leader-abbas-was-kgb-spy-in-1980s-israeli-researchers/?utm_source
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"Soviet (and CCP) Subversion of the Free World Press, 1984 Complete Interview - Yuri Bezmenov
Yuri Bezmenov: The Life and Legacy of the Influential KGB Informant Who Defected to the West:
Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov, was a Soviet journalist for RIA Novosti and a former PGU KGB informant who defected to Canada. After being assigned to a station in India, Bezmenov eventually grew to love the people and the culture of India."
https://youtu.be/sQN4c3uN_tA
https://youtu.be/yErKTVdETpw
Stalin’s Antisemitism, as malicious as the Tsars, started after WWII. The NKVD secret police and after his death the KGB dispensed anti-Jewish, anti-Western, anti-capitalism, anti-democracy, propaganda to the Arab and Muslim world. To generate Muslim/Arab revolts. From the 1960s on, Soviet Russia & Communist bloc countries used the KGB to work with the PLO to redefine the Palestinian cause, it became an anti-imperialist cause, appealed to the Left and the Islamic world.
At the UN Soviet Russia, Communist bloc countries and Palestine Liberation Organization joined forces with international Leftists, Marxists, Progressives, against the west and against Jewish connection to Israel. Stalin’s doctrine is used not only to harm Israel, but to weaken western way of life and capitalism. The engineered lie became a weapon, today spread by Far Right, Left, Marxists, Islamists, academia, media, politicians.
Excellent article but it will never gain traction with those whose minds need to change. What is disturbing is that so many Jewish organizations have aligned themselves with the very forces that seek the destruction of not just Israel, but Judaism itself. Even today we have milquetoast condemnations (and that is being generous) coming from leadership organizations like the AJC, ADL, the JCRCs of the growing hatred coming from progressive quarters. They have shown a lack of forceful repudiation of what is occurring in the media, entertainment and academia. What is even more astounding is their continued focus and embedding themselves in issues that estrange the Jewish community from those who support individuality, the rule of law (and not anarchy), and the freedoms that made us successful in the U.S. Where have Jews prospered the most? It has been in the U.S. where the spirit of capitalism, even with its faults, provided the fertile soil for our success. While the majority of leftist Jews continue to say we must be a lamp unto nations, we can do so without having to self-immolate Mr. Hoffman's article should be a wakeup call to our so-called Jewish leadership.
Hoffman nails it: this isn’t spontaneous outrage, it’s legacy Soviet narrative warfare with a software update. The USSR is gone, but its propaganda architecture lives on—embedded in universities, NGOs, newsrooms, and now algorithms. It trained the West to see one conflict through a permanent moral lens while averting its eyes everywhere else. Iran butchers its own people by the tens of thousands? Silence. Gaza produces curated images on demand? Total moral panic. That’s not compassion—it’s conditioning. The genius of the system is that it convinces people they’re thinking freely while their empathy is being steered. Propaganda today doesn’t censor; it floods. And most never notice they’re drowning.
I read “History Upside Down,” by David Meir Levi about 10 years ago and it was a mind-blower. The scales fell from my eyes. I felt like it provided all the missing pieces that helped you understand the whole scam of "Palestinianism" from start to finish. And it has puzzled me that Levi's book never made much of a splash, and that he has never had any presence in popular media. It's strange how there is sometimes no relation between the value of information provided and the extent of its popularity and diffusion.
Levi's book is succinct, but nothing can beat Joshua's one-line summary of our present state of affairs in the ongoing drama of "Free, free Palestine.":
"What we are watching is a grotesque gaslighting campaign, performed in the language of compassion and staged for Western consumption."
One of your best articles I've read, but could be a bit shorter.
Agree entirely. Joshua's essay are always worth reading, but sometimes continue without a compelling reason after the main points have been well made.
Did you think those who protect the Democracies of The West cannot fight off both Totalitarian re-emergent Nazism AND totalitarian Islam. Of course we can do both at the same time. Today’s Russia under Putin must learn this lesson too: Islamist Terrorists have Moscow in their sights whatever the current Alliances Russia has in the Third World and The Middle East. How do we know this: Because Islamist Terrorists, including Muslim Terrorists from Tajikistan, have attacked Russia and Her civilians many times in the past ten years, in the name of their religion.