Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Israel Affairs
Angaben zur Quelle:
27,1 (2021) 202-223
Keywords:
Boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement
;
Propaganda, Soviet
;
Propaganda, Anti-Israeli
;
Anti-Zionism
;
Soviet Union Politics and government
Abstract:
This article seeks to underline the ideological filiation between the principles of Russian political warfare (disinformation, aggressive propaganda, manipulation, distortion, political isolation of the target (politicide), the anti-Zionist propaganda formulated by the Soviet Union and the BDS argument, conceived as a node around which anti-Israeli organisations and structure gravitate. To determine this filiation this article examines step by step; the principles of Russian political warfare; the development of that doctrine as expressed in the anti-Zionist propaganda formulated by the Soviet Union between 1897 and 1991 and finally the modalities of the application of the Russian political warfare in the BDS argument. The findings reveal a twin phenomenon of appropriation; first an appropriation of Russian political warfare as a strategy to delegitimise Israel and second, an appropriation of the arguments produced by the anti-Zionist propaganda formulated by the Soviet Union.
DOI:
10.1080/13537121.2021.1864858
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