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Jan Kapusnak

Jan Kapusnak

Jan Kapusnak, a political scientist focusing on Middle Eastern issues, is also a licensed tour guide in Israel.

Propaganda does not need long manifestos. An iconic image is enough—instantly legible, universal, viral.
The United Nations offered a diplomatic starting point and a set of suggested borders, but it did not provide sovereignty, real borders on the ground, security or survival.
The United Nations never declared that Zionism is not racism; it never debated why the original equation was a libel. It simply removed a diplomatic obstacle.
Soviet-Palestinian propaganda presented anti-Zionism as morally noble, connected it to anti-imperialism and cloaked it in the language of “global peace.”
Words like “genocide,” “apartheid” or “racist regime” carry immense moral and political weight. Once applied to Israel, they create automatic outrage.
To call Jewish self-determination “colonialism” while ignoring the Arab conquests that Islamized the region uses historical erasure as a weapon against Israel.
In modern Islamist discourse, Israel, like the ancient Crusader kingdoms, is a foreign implant sustained by the backing of Western countries.
Max Brod wrote about Tel Aviv during Israel’s War of Independence. His work and his message are strikingly similar for Israel today.