Soviet / Communist Antisemitism
Official equality, unofficial suspicion
Communist states often rejected antisemitism in theory while reproducing anti-Jewish suspicion in practice.
Core Idea
Soviet ideology formally opposed ethnic hatred, but Jewish identity could be treated as bourgeois, religious, cosmopolitan, or politically suspect.
Main Pattern
Accusations shifted toward code words: rootless cosmopolitans, Zionists, foreign agents, or disloyal intellectuals.
Historical Snapshot
Stalin-era purges, the Doctors' Plot, restrictions on Jewish culture, and later anti-Zionist campaigns showed how state power could target Jews while denying antisemitic intent.
Modern Echo
Some contemporary anti-Zionist rhetoric inherits Soviet-era habits when it treats Jewish collective life as uniquely illegitimate or conspiratorial.