What in the world did you think the core of soviet antizionism is? How long will you wedge yourself in that tintsy tiny space of I'm an antizionist who adheres to ML principles but still love my judaism. Grow up and wear your anti jewish marxism with pride.
In 1918, Soviets created a branch of government for cool Jews, whose paid job was to persecute the uncool ones. This was called the Yevsektsiya, or the Jewish Sections of the Communist Party. The not-antisemitic-antizionist Jews.
The ostensible purpose of the Yevsektsiya was to spread Communist ideology to Russia’s Jewish masses, among whom there were few Bolsheviks in 1917. Russia’s Jewish revolutionaries had mainly been Bundists (socialists), Mensheviks or Trotskyists, who failed to back Lenin.
The Yevsektsiya first eliminated the kehillas, or traditional Jewish community organizations in Russia, by legally abolishing them. When that didn’t work, they burned them down. Churches and mosques were often targeted, too.
But by 1919, the Yevsektsiya resolved at their annual conference that shutting down traditional Jewish institutions was insufficient. Their mission now was to destroy all Zionist activity, from political organizations to sports clubs.
They had successfully raided the offices of every Zionist association in Ukraine and arrested their leaders. Elsewhere in the USSR, they arrested thousands more. Their next move was to destroy the Hebrew language by shutting down all schools that taught Hebrew.
The Yevsektsiya set up new Jewish schools with instruction in a Sovietized Yiddish with antisemitic orthography, in which Yiddish’s many Hebrew-derived words were given new spellings. The schools curriculum included indoctrination on the evils of Zionism.
Yevsektsiya staged show trials on the High Holy Days to denounce Judaism and Zionism. One such trial was held in the same hall where Mendel Beilis, victim of Russia’s last blood libel, had been tried for murdering a Christian child and using his blood to make matzo.
In the course of not being anti-Semitic and being simply anti-Zionist, the Yevsektsiya managed to persecute, imprison, torture, and murder thousands of Jews, until their leaders were themselves purged.
25 years ago, the opening of Soviet archives revealed the sordid details of each person’s fate—who by bullet, who by Siberian labor, who by torture, who by a prison hospital’s lack of insulin.

Now, I ask you. Does the rhetoric sound familiar at all?
Antizionist Jews were detrimental to Jewish life in Diaspora. If you voluntarily choose to wear that ideology, do not try and whitewash what that meant to thousand of lives lost. I have zero sympathy to your hurt feelings on this matter.
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