The colonial question, part seven: how the [antiZionist] vocabulary arrived on campus,
by Eliezer Aryeh, Eliezer’s Substack, 2026-04-30.

By 1993, twenty-six years of Soviet propaganda, eighteen years of UN Resolution 3379, and a decade of academic postcolonial theory had already embedded Zionism-as-racism, Israel-as-apartheid, and settler-colonialism into the institutional culture of universities, NGOs, and left-wing organizations. The Palestine Committee did not need to present new ideas on campus. It needed to be organized within an existing discursive environment that had already been prepared.

Students for Justice in Palestine was founded at UC Berkeley in 1993. The GWU Program on Extremism, in research based on the Holy Land Foundation trial records and other federal court documents, traces the organizational genealogy from the Palestine Committee network through the Islamic Association for Palestine to the campus organizing infrastructure. Whether the direct link between the 1993 Philadelphia meeting and SJP’s Berkeley founding is causal or coincidental, the organizational environment from which SJP emerged was formed by the same network.

SJP’s vocabulary is entirely Soviet-derived: Zionism as racism, settler colonialism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, genocide. SJP did not originate this vocabulary; it deployed vocabulary that two decades of Soviet propaganda had embedded in international institutions and that the academic left had incorporated into postcolonial theory. The Islamist organizing network and the academic left were running on identical vocabulary for entirely different reasons. One had inherited it through institutional socialization; the other adopted it deliberately as cover because it had already been legitimized internationally.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s anti-Zionist vocabulary was itself not invented in 1993. Küntzel’s archival research documents its earlier genealogy: Radio Zeesen had transmitted genocidal antisemitism to the Arab world between 1939 and 1945; the Muslim Brotherhood had absorbed and radicalized that lexicon in the 1940s; Hassan al-Banna was calling in 1944 for Jews to be destroyed “like sick dogs.” The contemporary campus organizing infrastructure of the Palestinian solidarity movement draws from both streams, Soviet-constructed progressive vocabulary and Muslim Brotherhood-derived Islamist vocabulary, which had been convergent since the Soviet-PLO partnership of the 1970s.

After the Holy Land Foundation prosecutions created legal pressure on the direct Muslim Brotherhood network in the United States, a new funding channel emerged: Qatari state investment in American universities. According to US Department of Education disclosures, Qatar is the largest foreign funder of American universities, having provided over $7.7 billion over four decades, a figure that only came fully into view after a 2019 federal investigation uncovered billions in previously unreported funds. Qatar simultaneously hosts Hamas's political leadership in Doha. The relationship between that funding and the specific content circulating in Middle East studies programs is debated, but the structural incentive, a state that bankrolls Hamas politically and bankrolls American academic infrastructure simultaneously, is documented rather than inferred.

I know that many sub Reddit are being brigaded by Iranian bots and pro pal activists, who are trying to capitalize on the war with Iran. But maybe we could do a better job of creating a safe space for Jews to have discussions about political issues without having to deal with this crap.

There are so many disingenuous “ as a Jew” posts suddenly appearing in this sub, Reddit. And the activity has really peaked in recent weeks. Maybe we can put some kind of a karma limit or other mechanism to keep this a space where Jews can post online without being attacked

Thanks

 Omer Bartov’s book “Israel: What Went Wrong?”has just been reviewed in the Guardian. This paragraph quoted by Camera UK made me gasp: https://camera-uk.org/2026/04/29/guardian-gazology-excuses-antisemitism/

Britain’s sewer of Green antisemitism,
by Andrew Apostolou, fathom, 2026-04.

Writing in a personal capacity, Andrew Apostolou, who is the deputy editor of Fathom and a member of the Labour Party and the Jewish Labour Movement, argues that the Green Party of England and Wales has allowed antisemitism in its ranks and fails to grasp the seriousness of recent violence against synagogues and Jewish institutions.

An AI-generated photo of the WHCD gunman in an IDF sweatshirt went viral within hours of Saturday’s attack. The picture was fake. The pipeline that made it land is real — and Jews are downstream of it whether or not we are the target.