David H.—I first heard Izabella Tabarovsky, senior fellow at the Z3 Institute, speak in lower Manhattan in 2022, and she made the most startling claim: That all the anti-Israel slogans we were hearing in campus protests were lifted, word for word, from Soviet publications from the 1970s, pamphlets that had been translated to English and distributed across American campuses at the time. She even showed pictures of the pamphlets.
In this Honest Take podcast interview, Izabella lays out the facts about the direct connection between what was a massive KGB operation half a century ago, and how it expresses itself today in the anti-Israel protest movement.
Watch below:
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The Z3 Conference is returning to Palo Alto on November 1, 2026. Izabella will be there, and so will I as well as many of the writers and scholars associated with the Z3 Institute. Tickets are on sale now!