Who Invented Palestinian Nationalism and Why? | Explained

The United Nations Human Rights Council has voted on a resolution to fund a biased, one-sided “Commission of Inquiry” meant to demonize and delegitimize the state of Israel, labeling it an “Apartheid state.” Unbeknownst to many of us, this mendacious screed was concocted in Moscow during the Cold War, with the assistance of the Soviet propaganda machine. We are honored to host Colonel Richard Kemp, of the Royal British Army.

 

From the KGB to Gaza: How Soviet 'Active Measures' Still Manipulate the West​

by Pierre Rehov
September 18, 2025 at 5:00 am



  • What some now call the "pro-Palestine movement" in the West is, in many respects, the residue of decades of KGB-backed manipulation. The cultural self-hatred, moral relativism, and selective outrage that dominate today's progressive circles were seeded by Soviet strategists who understood that eroding Western confidence from within could be more decisive than any tank battalion.
  • Between June 2015 and May 2017, Facebook identified roughly $100,000 in advertising spending tied to Russian operators — around 3,000 ads and 470 fake accounts. These "false amplifiers" were not fringe experiments; they were coordinated tools to manipulate American discourse around the most sensitive of issues: race, violence and justice.
  • Algorithms that reward outrage over truth became Moscow's best allies. Viral posts spread disinformation with an efficiency no Cold War-era propaganda organ could ever have matched. Silicon Valley unwittingly handed Russia the perfect conduit for digital warfare.
  • What began with the KGB's creation and sponsorship of radical Palestinian organizations has evolved into a kaleidoscope of identity-based movements that serve the same destabilizing purpose.
  • The Muslim Brotherhood, Iran's revolutionary regime, and the emirate of Qatar eagerly seized onto the momentum of Soviet-inspired subversion.
  • By turning every regional or global grievance into an indictment of the Jewish state, they perpetuated the Soviet narrative while adding their own religious zealotry.
  • The moral relativism of progressive elites, the selective outrage of campus radicals, and the obsessive fixation on "Palestine" are not organic: they are the downstream effects of decades of collaboration between Moscow's active measures and Islamist subversion, turbocharged by Qatari money and Iranian militancy.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21908/kgb-russia-soviets-palestinians
 

From the KGB to Gaza: How Soviet 'Active Measures' Still Manipulate the West​

by Pierre Rehov
September 18, 2025 at 5:00 am



  • What some now call the "pro-Palestine movement" in the West is, in many respects, the residue of decades of KGB-backed manipulation. The cultural self-hatred, moral relativism, and selective outrage that dominate today's progressive circles were seeded by Soviet strategists who understood that eroding Western confidence from within could be more decisive than any tank battalion.
  • Between June 2015 and May 2017, Facebook identified roughly $100,000 in advertising spending tied to Russian operators — around 3,000 ads and 470 fake accounts. These "false amplifiers" were not fringe experiments; they were coordinated tools to manipulate American discourse around the most sensitive of issues: race, violence and justice.
  • Algorithms that reward outrage over truth became Moscow's best allies. Viral posts spread disinformation with an efficiency no Cold War-era propaganda organ could ever have matched. Silicon Valley unwittingly handed Russia the perfect conduit for digital warfare.
  • What began with the KGB's creation and sponsorship of radical Palestinian organizations has evolved into a kaleidoscope of identity-based movements that serve the same destabilizing purpose.
  • The Muslim Brotherhood, Iran's revolutionary regime, and the emirate of Qatar eagerly seized onto the momentum of Soviet-inspired subversion.
  • By turning every regional or global grievance into an indictment of the Jewish state, they perpetuated the Soviet narrative while adding their own religious zealotry.
  • The moral relativism of progressive elites, the selective outrage of campus radicals, and the obsessive fixation on "Palestine" are not organic: they are the downstream effects of decades of collaboration between Moscow's active measures and Islamist subversion, turbocharged by Qatari money and Iranian militancy.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21908/kgb-russia-soviets-palestinians
At a time when the left should have been united to oppose Donald Trump, the socialists poured all their passion into opposing a fake genocide.
 
the soviet Palestinian Lie is becoming mainstream in news articles and opinion pieces. before 2023 this fact was only found in private websites and academic research places



(Oct. 28, 2025 / JNS)
On the morning of Oct. 7, 2023, while Hamas terrorists were still burning Israeli families alive, beheading people, raping women and dragging hundreds of hostages into Gaza, their Western sympathizers from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the largest European organization for “Palestinian rights,” were calling the London police to organize a mass march, not against the murderers but against their victims.

During the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, London rang with chants comparing Israel to apartheid and Zionism to racism. The city was flooded with Palestinian flags and banners equating the Star of David with the swastika.

Even before the first Israeli bomb struck terrorist positions in the Gaza Strip, pro-Palestinian activists were accusing Israel of committing “war crimes” and “genocide.” Hamas’s slaughter of men, women and children in communities in southern Israel was presented as a legitimate act of “resistance against Zionist colonialism.” What might have looked like a spontaneous outburst of anger to outsiders was, in fact, the product of decades of systematic campaigning with a single goal: to delegitimize the State of Israel.

The roots of reflexive anti-Israel rhetoric go back to the 1960s, when the Soviet Union unleashed a global ideological war against Zionism. Moscow poured massive resources into building a sophisticated propaganda arsenal designed to weaken U.S. influence in the Middle East and portray Israel as a colonial and racist project. This cynically manufactured language, full of lies and manipulative symbols, survived the fall of the “Evil Empire” and still poisons public debate today.

Zionism began as a national liberation movement of the Jews, a people striving to regain political sovereignty in their historic homeland. Its modern form was shaped in the 19th century by Theodor Herzl, an Austrian journalist of Jewish origin, who envisioned a safe refuge for Jews and worked to realize his vision through pragmatic political strategy. He focused on securing international recognition and building diplomacy that would allow Jews to exercise their right to self-determination. It was a legitimacy that later became the main target of Soviet propaganda.

https://www.jns.org/the-soviet-role-in-turning-anti-zionism-into-a-popular-cause/


https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/anti-zionism-and-marxist-leninism-together-forever/
 
There’s nothing inherently antisemitic about criticizing the state of Israel but the Palestinian cause depends entirely upon repeating lies about the world’s only Jewish-majority nation until they become “common knowledge”.

Here’s a list of the main lies:
  • There is no genocide.
  • There is no starvation in Gaza.
  • There is no apartheid in Israel.
  • The IDF hasn’t been shooting children in the head.
  • The IDF hasn’t been targeting civilians.
  • Israel didn’t kill its own people on October the 7th.
Anyone who repeats these debunked accusations is a racist bigot who wants to see Jews killed.
 
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