The anti-Israel narrative dominating today’s universities didn’t start in classrooms — it started in Moscow.
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union didn’t just arm and train terror groups like Fatah, the PFLP, and the DFLP. It also built the ideological foundation for the anti-Israel movement we see today.
KGB officers trained Yasser Arafat to say “peace” in English while calling for jihad in Arabic, and Moscow’s propaganda machine flooded Western academia with anti-Israel messaging.
Decades later, Qatar is using the same playbook, pouring billions into U.S. universities and study abroad programs to shape the next generation’s view of Israel and the Middle East.
The Soviet playbook never went away.
It just changed sponsors.