In 2025, Jews are being attacked for being Jewish in places that once promised “never again.”

A Hanukkah celebration turns into a massacre in Australia.

A synagogue is targeted on Yom Kippur in Manchester.

A father is beaten in front of his children in a Montreal park.

A woman is stabbed in the kosher aisle of a supermarket in Ottawa.

A young couple is murdered inside the Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.

Fifty Jewish teenagers are removed from a Spanish airline for singing in Hebrew.

These events are frequently described as “isolated incidents,” “hate crimes,” or spontaneous reactions to geopolitical tensions. Such descriptions are analytically inadequate. These attacks do not occur randomly, nor do they arise independently of one another. They are the visible symptoms of a systemic ideological disease, engineered, cultivated, and globally disseminated over more than a century.

What the world is witnessing is not a sudden resurgence of antisemitism, but the late-stage manifestation of antizionism as an ideological cancer. It is a mutating system of Jew-hatred, engineered to survive moral scrutiny, evade accountability, and mobilize violence while claiming virtue. Today, that disease has reached Stage Four.

How the Antizionist Ideological Cancer Was Engineered and Allowed to Spread

Cancer does not suddenly appear at Stage Four. It develops quietly, spreads gradually, mutates to evade detection, and embeds itself into vital systems. By the time the symptoms are undeniable, the disease has already metastasized. Antizionism followed the same path.

The violence observed since October 7, 2023, did not begin on that day. October 7 exposed what had already taken root. The attacks that followed are the predictable outcome of decades of ideological conditioning that normalized the dehumanization of Jews under political, academic, and moral cover.

Antizionism was not discovered; it was designed in the early 20th century. Its genealogy traces back to the Soviet Union. Under Lenin, Zionism was labelled “bourgeois nationalism” and “bourgeois imperialism.” Under Stalin, Jews were branded “rootless cosmopolitans,” cast as disloyal, elitist, and foreign. Antisemitism was masked as ideological purity. The Soviet ideology portrayed Jewish national identity as illegitimate, reframed and criminalized Jewish self-determination as a political crime following Israel’s alignment with the Western democratic world rather than with socialism.

The Doctors’ Plot represented the high point of this campaign, recycling ancient conspiracy libels into modern political language. The accusation remained unchanged: Jews were “dangerous, disloyal, and conspiratorial.” Only the vocabulary evolved. Under Stalin, this campaign went beyond the Doctors’ Plot, culminating in the 1952 execution of leading Jewish poets and intellectuals, the so-called Night of the Murdered Poets, a systematic effort to erase and eradicate Jewish cultural and national identity. From there, the Soviets cultivated, exported, and embedded the ideology into the Arab and Muslim world, and later into Western institutions, mutating at each stage into a more potent and dangerous form.

The events we are witnessing today are not anomalies. They are Stage Four symptoms: normalized hostility, institutional paralysis, organized intimidation, and escalating violence.

Mutation One: The Arab and Islamist World

The next mutation occurred when the Soviets exported antizionism into the Arab and Muslim world.

Importantly, the Soviets did not export Marxism as theology, which would have failed. Instead, they weaponized grievance, humiliation, and identity politics. Antizionism was embedded into Arab nationalism and later fused with Islamist ideology, producing a far more aggressive mutation. This mutation transformed antizionism from a political stance into an existential doctrine, one that framed Jewish sovereignty itself as illegitimate. Here, antizionism became absolute. It became sacred. It became non-negotiable.

Organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah did not originate antizionst ideology; they inherited, radicalized it and amplified by religious absolutism and sanctified violence. This mutation transformed antizionism from a political weapon into an existential one.

Each mutation strengthened the cancer and made antizionism more resistant to challenge and critique. From there, antizionism went global.

Mutation Two: The Western World and the Role of DEI

The most dangerous mutation occurred when antizionism entered the Western world.

By the 1970s and 1980s, antizionist ideology had penetrated Western universities, NGOs, media, and international institutions. The UN’s “Zionism is Racism” Resolution 3379 (1975) institutionalized propaganda as moral consensus........

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