After Israel defeated Soviet-backed Arab armies, Moscow realized it couldn’t win on the battlefield — so it set out to destroy Israel’s reputation instead.

Soviet officials spread books, posters, and UN speeches branding Zionism as “racism,” culminating in the 1975 UN resolution declaring “Zionism is racism.”

That’s where the “Israel is an apartheid state” narrative was born — not in the Middle East, but in the Kremlin.

Today, that same lie still echoes on campuses, in protests, and across the media.

Watch to learn how it began — and why it still matters 50 years later.