Izabella Tabarovsky

Izabella Tabarovsky is a scholar of Soviet antizionism and contemporary left antisemitism. She is a Senior Fellow with the Z3 Institute for Jewish Priorities and a Research Fellow with the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and ISGAP. Follow her on Twitter @IzaTabaro.

Zombie Anti-Zionism
The left’s addiction to warmed-over Soviet anti-Zionist propaganda from half a century ago proves that its criticism of Israel has nothing to do with facts on the ground in Gaza
byIzabella Tabarovsky
Wikipedia’s Jewish Problem
The site seems to be intentionally trafficking in disinformation related to Jews, Israel, and Zionism
byIzabella Tabarovsky
Let Russian Jews Lead
Russian-speaking Jews know the alternative firsthand. They know that if the totalitarian left takes control of this country, there will be no other refuge.
byIzabella Tabarovsky
What Now?
How to feel, and what to do, one month after the massacres
byTony Badran,Stephanie Butnick,Liel Leibovitz,Park MacDougald,Sheila Nazarian,Alana Newhouse,Armin Rosen,David Samuels,Jeremy Stern,Izabella Tabarovsky,Bari Weiss,Ani Wilcenski,andKathryn Wolf
The Cult of ‘Antizionism’
American progressive ideologues have formed a new ideology based on the negation of an all-powerful phantasm they call ‘Zionism.’ To fight them, we need to understand the origins of their beliefs in the Soviet academic propaganda apparatus.
byIzabella Tabarovsky
Israel, Right or Left
Framing the question of U.S. aid to Israel as a right-left binary is a partisan evasion
byIzabella Tabarovsky
Mahmoud Abbas’ Dissertation
The Palestinian leader’s scholarly abstract sheds light on the crude deformations of Soviet Zionology and how they are reflected in today’s universities
byIzabella Tabarovsky
Russia’s New Exiles
As Vladimir Putin methodically destroys the remains of Russian civil society, a new group of emigres flees the country, only to find themselves frozen out of Western life
byIzabella Tabarovsky
Reflections From the Jerusalem Film Festival
A trio of movies offers radically different ideas about identity, memory, and the significance of forgetting
byIzabella Tabarovsky
The Holocaust That Never Happened
On the 80th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre, hearing rare stories of survival from the Holocaust-era Soviet territories
byIzabella Tabarovsky
ANU, a New Museum of the Jewish People, Opens in Tel Aviv
At a time when the Jewish world feels more divided than ever, the museum offers a vision of radical togetherness
byIzabella Tabarovsky
The New Refuseniks
Soviet Jews stood up to anti-Zionism once before. Now they are helping the younger generation of American Jews—including their own children—fight back against a wave of defamation and hate, while mainstream Jewish organizations wilt.
byIzabella Tabarovsky
Declaration and ‘Last Will’ of the Leningrad Hijackers
Composed before 16 Soviet Jews attempted to hijack a small plane in 1970, this declaration calls out the U.N. for turning a blind eye to their human rights and pleads for the Jewish world not to take its freedom for granted
byIzabella Tabarovsky
Hijacking History
Fifty years ago today in Leningrad, a small group of Soviet Jews was tried for attempting a daring escape to Israel. Eerily, their story is relevant again—this time, for American Jews.
byIzabella Tabarovsky
An In-Person Report From a Virtual Film Festival
Binging documentaries while under quarantine in Haifa offers a much-needed window into a country that can feel unreal
byIzabella Tabarovsky
The American Jewish Soviet Experience
A conversation with Natan Sharansky, author of ‘Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People’
byIzabella Tabarovsky
How ‘The New York Times’ Helped Hide Stalin’s Mass Murders in Ukraine
Journalism doesn’t have to stifle the truth in the service of fashionable causes and personal narcissism. It’s a choice.
byIzabella Tabarovsky
The American Soviet Mentality
Collective demonization invades our culture
byIzabella Tabarovsky