# When "Antizionism" Becomes a Weapon: Lessons from the USSR to U.S. Campuses

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Podcast: [IsraelCast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/israelcast-714324)
Published: 2026-01-21T14:50:00+00:00
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Author Izabella Tabarovsky—a scholar of Soviet antizionism and contemporary antisemitism, writer, journalist, and the author of Be a Refusenik: A Jewish Student's Survival Guide —joins host Steven Shalowitz from her home in Jerusalem to explore the Soviet origins of modern anti-Zionism and why those ideas echo so loudly on campuses today. Born in 1970 and raised in the USSR, Tabarovsky recounts what it meant to live with state-sponsored "anti-Zionism" that functioned as a sophisticated system of discrimination against Jews, from schoolyard humiliation to university and career barriers.

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