Word: zionism
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...nearly as much as for defense, and imposes a 5% income-tax surcharge and a 2% increase in the value-added tax. For Israelis, many of whom already pay one-third of their average $12,500 annual income to the government, the tax hike is a serious sacrifice for Zionism...
There is also a thaw for Soviet Jews, who have long suffered a double burden of religious suppression and persecution as suspected "agents of Zionism." They are now able to take Hebrew lessons. The state has given back a number of synagogues, but few Soviet Jews remain regular worshipers. Numbers will dwindle further because of emigration, which reached an all-time high last month. Moscow's Chief Rabbi, Adolf Shayevich, says Jews no longer leave because of religious restrictions but because of economic decline and fear of anti-Semitism...
...were brought up," says Samar, "to distinguish between Zionism and Judaism. My mother had many Sephardic Jewish friends. But Zionism emerged out of the Holocaust. So why do the Palestinians have to pay for that? They were the victims. Now we are the victims. They came and took our land! They cannot solve their agony by victimizing the Palestinians...
Pamyat's political platform blames all of Russia's problems on the nation's 1.8 million Jews. In its January, 1989, "Manifesto of the National-Patriotic Front Pamyat", Russia is described as the "Fatherland, which has been tortured and robbed by aggressive Zionism, talmudic atheism and cosmopolitan usury...
...past 15 months Katerli has been in court fighting charges that she defamed local Patriot society leader Alexander Romanenko by comparing passages in his book The Class Character of Zionism with Nazi writings. In her view, the official propaganda campaign against "Zionist racism" has been a form of sanctioned anti-Semitism. Now that glasnost is flourishing, she is worried about more virulent forms of prejudice as Russian nationalists seek a scapegoat to blame for seven decades of Communist misrule...