The Soviets made antisemitism respectable among Western academia by rebranding it as anti-Zionism. They never really hid the substitution. Soviet newspapers in the 1960s wrote that “the character of the Jewish religion serves the political aims of the Zionists,” compared Judaism to the Italian mafia, and claimed Israel was merely a tool for Jewish world domination. This became state policy. After Israel’s stunning 1967 victory over Soviet-armed and Soviet-trained Arab armies, KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov launched Operation SIG. The goal was explicit: keep repeating that the United States and Israel were “fascist, imperial-Zionist countries” bankrolled by rich Jews. The aim was to take preexisting anti-Jewish sentiment across the Islamic world and increase it by orders of magnitude and turn it into a permanent terrorist war against Israel and America. Thousands of agents of influence were deployed. Arabic translations of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion were distributed. Classical European antisemitism was repackaged as progressive anti-colonialism. The campaign worked. You can still see it today. Campus slogans about “settler-colonialism,” “Zionism is racism,” and Jews as white oppressors are the direct descendants of Soviet propaganda developed mostly in the 1970s. The Soviets did not invent hatred of Jews. But they industrialized it, made it respectable, mainstreamed it, and exported it. They created the version of antisemitism that still shapes UN resolutions, NGO language, protest slogans, and much of the modern “anti-Zionist” vocabulary. “Anti-Zionism” was, and is, the same old hatred under a new name.