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Panelist traces modern weaponization of antisemitism to Russian and Soviet propaganda campaigns
Summary
At the US Helsinki Commission briefing, Izabella Tabarovsky described how czarist forgeries, Soviet-era campaigns and contemporary Kremlin messaging have spread and repurposed antisemitic tropes for geopolitical ends.
Izabella Tabarovsky, a fellow at the Wilson Center and a scholar of Soviet Jewish history, told a U.S. Helsinki Commission briefing that Russia and the Soviet Union have played outsized roles in manufacturing and propagating antisemitic conspiracy narratives used for foreign-policy influence.
Tabarovsky said the czarist-era forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion “were born in Russia in 1903” and that Soviet and later Russian state actors amplified similar tropes to discredit Western democracies and to cement alliances with Arab…
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