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Izabella Tabarovsky
@IzaTabaro
Antisemitism antizionism Russia Ukraine Israel | Research fellow | | Personal acct
Joined September 2015

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“When the USSR prohibited contact with all things Israel, it diminished its own ability to understand the country.Starved of real knowledge, the Soviet political establishment & chunks of the academy fell victim to their own conspiracist fantasies, drifting further from reality.”
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Mahmoud Abbas’ Dissertation: The Palestinian leader’s scholarly abstract sheds light on the crude deformations of Soviet Zionology and how they are reflected in today’s universities, from @IzaTabaro. tabletmag.com/sections/arts-
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Captain Uri Bar Lev is a 93-year-old retired El Al pilot who currently resides in the moshav of his childhood near Netanya, Israel. He also made aviation history as the only pilot to successfully thwart an in-air hijacking.   In 1948, Captain Bar Lev was a 16-year-old pilot…
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Case in point:
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The ferocity unleashed against @rogerwaters, an immense artist and true icon of our time, a champion of human rights and justice, is absolutely shocking.Full solidarity. NB. Persecution of persons who oppose Apartheid is itself Apartheid (Int'l Convention on Apartheid, Art 2f). twitter.com/AsaWinstanley/…
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Against this critique from the left, the response of Dov Waxman to Mohammed’s speech stands out as particularly ignorant & spineless.
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This is precisely the kind of conversation that needs to be happening on the left wrt to conspiracist antizionism taking over its ranks, which plugs right into far-right antisemitic tropes. Bravo to the Nation for having published this critique. thenation.com/article/politi
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“The fact that so many anti-Zionists offer nothing in the way of a vision for where the Jews living in Israel should go, including the thousands of mizrahim, reveals the limits of their critique. Their offensive, ahistoric righteousness and borderline racism deserves outrage.”
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“Yemeni Jews are mizrahim—Jews of Eastern extraction—not the European” Jews “that get racialized as white. These Jews are brown, indistinguishable from their former Arab Muslim neighbors, making them an awkward fit into an analysis of Zionism as white supremacy.”
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“If you don’t think Israel should exist, that’s fine. Just say it. The problem for many anti-Zionists on the left is that truly owning that position would complicate the narrative of oppressor versus oppressed.”
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“The one thing Mohammed didn’t say was whether or not she thinks Israel or a Jewish state shouldn’t exist, even though her logic led right up to the inescapable conclusion. This is where the rubber of anti-Zionism hits the road of anti-Semitism.”
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A few quotes from the piece: “Conflating ‘Jews’ & ‘money’ wasn’t necessary to make her wholly valid points about Palestinian human rights. The rest of it was a more coded indictment, […] imagery straight out of 4chan—or The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”
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The fact is, the left has authentic, legitimate ways to critique Zionism & Israel. Agree or disagree with them, at least they are logical rather than conspiracist. I’ll take logic & sound argumentation any time over conspiracy fantasy & demonization.
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This is precisely the kind of conversation that needs to be happening on the left wrt to conspiracist antizionism taking over its ranks, which plugs right into far-right antisemitic tropes. Bravo to the Nation for having published this critique.
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😂Tbh I think it’s way simpler. Jew as a spider holding the world in its tentacles appeared already on a 1920s French edition of the Protocols. On right is a Soviet “antizionist” cartoon. Clear link here between rw antisemitic conspiracy theory & Soviet conspiracist antizionism
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I’ve been asked this before. People often think this display was some private initiative. Key fact: In the USSR the state held monopoly on public ideological displays. This is part of state propaganda. Whoever made this had orders from above & all the $$ in the world to make it.
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Who made that spider? Really wanna know the story there.
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We’ve been told (& are regularly ‘shown’ with antisemitic violence & murderous terror) that the only way Palestinians are safe is if Jews/Zionists are not safe. In 2023 Orwellian inversion, this movie will peddle precisely the opposite. Coming soon to a city near you.
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"We've been told that the only way Jews are safe is if Palestinians are not safe." @IsraelismFilm Coming soon to a city near you.
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Izabella Tabarovsky illustrates how the call to expel "Zionists" out of CUNY is rhetorical (and maybe eventual actual) form of antisemitism that originated in the post-WWII Communist bloc. The USSR made good on exactly what these activists are demanding, "Zionists out of CUNY"
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Left: 1968, Poland. “We demand that the party is cleansed of the Zionist dirt.” Right: 1972, Moscow. “Zionism is a weapon of imperialism.” Polish & Soviet Jews pushed out of jobs, universities, forced to emigrate. Below: US college students, New York City, 2023. twitter.com/OGAride/status…
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Forget Roger Waters. It’s the thousands cheering vile antisemitic hate that the UK should worry about; every clap underscoring accuracy of consensus def & urgency to implement it…because to identity & combat, must 1st define. Thread by :
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London, last night. Roger Waters launches yet another antisemitic tirade. “I watched Jeremy Corbyn being cancelled by the Israeli lobby. That is what happened in 2019.” "I'm fighting back!" The audience loves it and cheers him on. 1/5
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This is what modern antisemitism looks like. Huge crowds cheering conspiracy theories about British MPs controlled by Tel Aviv, Nazi/Israel comparisons, while posing as a victim of the mysterious, malevolent Lobby. And it was all so predictable.
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London, last night. Roger Waters launches yet another antisemitic tirade. “I watched Jeremy Corbyn being cancelled by the Israeli lobby. That is what happened in 2019.” "I'm fighting back!" The audience loves it and cheers him on. 1/5
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משמאל: פולין, 1968. ״אנו דורשים שהמפלגה תטוהר מהזוהמה הציונית.״ מימין: מוסקבה, 1972. ״הציונות היא כלי של האימפריאליזם.״ יהודים בפולין וברית המועצות נדחקים מעבודה, אוניברסיטאות, נאלצים להגר. למטה: סטודנטים באוניברסיטאות ארה״ב, ניו יורק, 2023. מוטציית שנאה עתיקה בכסות ׳פרוגרס׳.
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Left: 1968, Poland. “We demand that the party is cleansed of the Zionist dirt.” Right: 1972, Moscow. “Zionism is a weapon of imperialism.” Polish & Soviet Jews pushed out of jobs, universities, forced to emigrate. Below: US college students, New York City, 2023. twitter.com/OGAride/status…
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Left: 1968, Poland. “We demand that the party is cleansed of the Zionist dirt.” Right: 1972, Moscow. “Zionism is a weapon of imperialism.” Polish & Soviet Jews pushed out of jobs, universities, forced to emigrate. Below: US college students, New York City, 2023.
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In case anyone questioned what the real aim of Fatima Mohammed’s speech was … at a CUNY Board of Trustees meeting, her supporters at CUNY Law demanded that all Zionists (85%+ of Jews) be kicked out of CUNY.  #CUNY @ChancellorCUNY @SAFECUNY
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