ABSTRACT
Contemporary left-wing antizionist discourse reproduces with stunning fidelity some of the central tropes of Soviet antizionist propaganda, which demonised Israel and Zionism. This chapter explores the background of these tropes, looks at the biographies of the right-wing Soviet ideologues who developed them and examines the mechanisms through which they reached the West. The chapter concludes that these tropes are inextricably linked to antisemitic conspiracy theory, containing seeds of anti-Jewish violence that we ignore at our own peril.
