Mick Hartley

Izabella Tabarovsky is a writer with a special interest in Soviet antizionism and contemporary left antisemitism. Back in January she was canceled from delivering a scheduled lecture by two Finnish universities. She's now delivered the same lecture to members of the Finnish parliament.

From her Facebook post:

I grew up in the USSR, where, in my own time, Jews were barred from certain universities and academic departments.

Certain professions and career paths were closed to us. I experienced it personally.

I left the USSR in 1989 at the age of 19. I went to the United States. And I thought that I had left all of it behind.

But here I am today, witnessing the same antisemitic ideology being reborn in the democratic West.

And once again Jews are being pushed out of universities, professions, political and cultural organizations….

Antisemitism is an ever-evolving virus.

Today’s antisemitism takes the form of demonizing Zionism and Israel.

It draws on tropes developed by Soviet propaganda, which itself was woven from threads that include some of the darkest ideological constructs humanity ever produced: the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Nazi ideology.

It is toxic and dangerous.

Millions of Jews historically suffered as a result of this propaganda.

What gives this history urgency is that we are at a point where Jews are being killed under the guise of anti-Zionism.

Nazi Germany dehumanized Jews to the point where they could be exterminated by the millions.

Today, in polite societies in the democratic West, Jews are once again being dehumanized—as Zionists.

“Zionists don’t deserve to live,” said a student at Columbia University.

And Jews are already being killed on that basis…..