"Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the defection of KGB archivist Major Vasily Mitrokhin and Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa revealed “Operation SIG” — a 25-year Soviet intelligence program designed to sow global Jew-hatred under the respectable guise of antizionism. Yuri Andropov openly boasted that the Islamic world was a “petri dish” in which the KGB could nurture a virulent strain of anti-Western hatred, grown from the bacterium of Marxist-Leninist thought. They realized they had only to repeat the theme that Israel was a “fascist, imperial-Zionist country” bankrolled by rich Jews. This Soviet state propaganda was subsequently given academic gravitas through an intellectual pipeline of key ideologues: Fayez Sayegh, who formulated the “settler-colonial” framework to strip a refugee rescue movement of its moral legitimacy; Trofim Kichko, the Soviet state scholar who rehabilitated the rabid antisemitism of the Nazi publication Der Stürmer for the Kremlin’s antizionist campaigns; Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlass, who revived classical blood libels under the veneer of scholarship; and Johann von Leers, Goebbels’ high-ranking Nazi propaganda official who fled to Nasser’s Egypt to continue his war against the Jews without changing his core ideological tenets. Today, this laundered narrative is platformed and subsidized by dark money networks..." See the full article below in comments. h/t Gregg Rosenberg