by YASHA LEVINE
His book “The Jews of Silence” was created as part of Israel’s covert propaganda and influence program targeting American Jews.
The campaign to save Soviet Jews started to really take off in America in the 1970s and reached total mainstream acceptance by the 1980s — evidenced by the fact that at least a hundred thousand people packed DC in 1987 for Freedom Sunday, an event that got coast to coast news coverage and featured Al Gore, George W. Bush, Bob Dole, and even a riveting folksy performance by Peter, Paul and Mary. If you weren’t thinking about saving Jewish Bodies, were you even living?
As I’ve mentioned before, the campaign to get American Jews hip to the Jewish Question in the Soviet Union got off the ground largely because of a sustained covert Israeli influence op. From its earliest days, Israel’s Zionist leadership saw the Soviet Union’s large Jewish population — which was anywhere between 2 and 3 million or even more — as a powerful weapon in its cynical by-the-numbers population war against the Palestinians. In 1952, four years after the creation of the State of Israel, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion established a dedicated spook division that answered directly to his office to make this population transfer dream come true.
It was called Nativ and it had two objectives. One: awaken a sense of Jewish nationalism and Zionism among Soviet Jews. Two: get the Soviet Union to allow its Jews to leave for Israel. To achieve the second part of its mission, Nativ worked to activate American Jews, which would allow Israel to apply pressure on the Soviet Union through America, a much more powerful and effective force — all while staying safely in the background. To do this, Nativ wanted to guilt trip the Americans — to convince them that their Jewish brothers and sisters were on the verge of being wiped out in a brutal second Holocaust, this time carried out by the evil commies.
Nativ’s method was to work though established American intellectuals, authors, journalists, and prominent community leaders. As I wrote earlier, one of the agency’s main operatives in America was a guy named Moshe Decter. He was budding proto-neocon anti-communist leftist journalist with a history of being involved in spooky propaganda ops, including the American Committee for Cultural Freedom. He was recruited to run a propaganda front called “Jewish Minority Research” covertly funded by Israel as part of Nativ. The outfit pumped out agitprop articles and pamphlets and research on the imminent danger that was awaiting Soviet Jews. It organized public campaigns, provided background information to leading media influencers, and generally did its best to seed the idea that a second Holocaust was just around the corner — unless American Jews and Americans did something about it.
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