Washington Examiner
· collected 2026-08-31 · by Hushang Manuchehri and Walter E. Block
If you walk into the quad of any elite Western university today, you will be deafened by a very specific vocabulary.
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you → walk → vocabulary
You will hear endless lectures on “settler colonialism,” “genocide,” “apartheid,” “from the river to the sea,” “imperialist implants,” and “indigenous resistance.”
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You → hear → sea
The students and tenured professors chanting these slogans are convinced they have uncovered a profound moral truth, imagining themselves as the vanguard of global justice.
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they → chant → justice
In reality, they are reciting the half-century-old psychological warfare drafted in Moscow.
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they → recite → Moscow
Prior to the crushing defeat of Soviet-armed Arab armies in the 1967 Six-Day War, regional Arab capitals openly framed the conflict not as a human rights campaign, but as a pan-Arab and Islamic war of annihilation.
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capitals → crush → annihilation
How many Arab countries occupy that real estate?
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countries → occupy → estate
They are as follows: Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, “Palestine,” Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
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They → follow → ?
You might think that there would be room in the groves of academe for one tiny Jewish one in the neighborhood, but, according to what passes for modern intelligentsia, you would be wrong.
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you → think → intelligentsia
That brutal honesty alienated Western liberal democracies.
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honesty → alienate → democracies
Following the 1967 defeat, Yuri Andropov and the Soviet intelligence apparatus executed a massive strategic pivot.
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Andropov → follow → pivot
Through sweeping disinformation operations, the KGB and Eastern Bloc intelligence systematically sanitized the conflict’s rhetoric.
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KGB → sanitize → rhetoric
They scrubbed the overt pan-Arab and religious eliminationism, cloaking it instead in fashionable Marxist liberation theory.
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They → scrub → theory
An ethno-religious war was repackaged as a noble, global anti-colonial struggle tailored for Western consumption.
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war → repackage → consumption
The operational architecture of the secular Palestinian movement was inextricably tied to Moscow.
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architecture → tie → Moscow
Declassified documents from the Mitrokhin archive reveal that Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat was cultivated by Soviet intelligence under the codename AREF, while figures like Mahmoud Abbas were registered intelligence operatives under the codename KROTOV.
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figures → reveal → codename
Meanwhile, the PLO received vast Soviet arms shipments, funding, and KGB operational training.
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PLO → receive → shipments
The cynical nature of this rhetoric was openly acknowledged at the time: in 1977, PLO Executive Committee member and pro-Syrian Ba’athist leader Zuheir Mohsen admitted in an interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw that a distinct Palestinian identity was promoted primarily for tactical reasons to serve pan-Arab aims and dismantle Zionism.
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identity → acknowledge → Zionism
Today, this historical amnesia has metastasized into grotesque political delusions.
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amnesia → metastasize → delusions
An unholy alliance — stretching from European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell to libertarian theorist Hans-Hermann Hoppe — now confidently peddles the conspiratorial talking point that Israel “engineered and financed Hamas” as a counterweight to the PLO and Fatah, whom they often frame as “legitimate resistance.
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they → stretch → resistance
In the 1970s, the Israeli military administration tolerated Sheikh Ahmed Yassin’s Mujama al Islamiya precisely because it operated as a non-violent religious and social charity (Da’wa) — a stark, preferable contrast to the lethal, Soviet-backed PLO terror syndicate that was actively hijacking airliners, bombing buses, and slaughtering Israeli athletes at Munich.
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that → tolerate → Munich
When Yassin’s movement abandoned social welfare and reconstituted itself as the genocidal terrorist group Hamas in 1987, Israel outlawed the organization, fought it, and ultimately eliminated its leadership.
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Israel → abandon → leadership
Decades later, when Israel permitted Qatari civilian funds to enter Gaza, it did so to prevent humanitarian collapse and stabilize the area.
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it → permit → area
But unsurprisingly, Hamas redirected those resources into a 500-kilometer subterranean fortress and rocket arsenals.
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Hamas → redirect → fortress
It perched these military assets in the neighborhoods of schools, hospitals, residential areas, the better to avail itself of Gazan shields.
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It → perch → shields
This is a technique of “warfare” that even the Nazis never sunk to employ.
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Nazis → sink → that
Yet modern Western activists remain blissfully oblivious to all of it.
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activists → remain → it
Draped in keffiyehs and chanting Soviet-era semantic tropes, they march through Western capitals convinced they are resisting Western imperialism.
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they → drape → imperialism
In doing so, they look at a liberal democracy fighting for survival against fundamentalist death cults and see only a cartoonish oppressor.
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they → do → oppressor
This is the ultimate triumph of Cold War disinformation: Western intellectuals, diplomats, and student radicals acting as the unpaid interns of a dead Soviet empire, mistaking cynical geopolitical information warfare for an authentic moral crusade.
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This → act → crusade
How is it that academia has been overtaken, overrun by leftist ideology?
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academia → overtake → ideology
One theory that makes sense in terms of explanatory power has been put forth by Milton Friedman.
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that → make → Friedman
He opined that this was due to the Vietnam War draft.
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this → opine → draft
Rightists and conservatives fought against communism.
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Rightists → fight → communism
For leftists, liberals, socialists, and the “progressives” of the day, that was just about the last thing they would wish to do.
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they → wish → day
One way was to emigrate to Canada.
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way → emigrate → Canada
Another, undertaken in droves, was to take advantage of the academic loophole.
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Another → undertake → loophole
Stay in school for as long as you can.
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you → stay → school
They have truly made a “march through the institution” of higher learning.
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They → make → learning
