Article published by Jewish News Syndicate, 7 September 2026. © Richard Kemp

Support for Zionism is an American patriotic duty. It should be the unwavering policy of all political parties that wish to advance the interests of the United States. Not for historic, sentimental or religious reasons, but because, whether you like Jews and the Jewish state or not, Israel is an indispensable component of US national security.

Before setting out what that means, I will offer proof that it is true. That proof is the importance America’s adversaries attach to undermining US backing for Israel, especially China and Russia, and the massive efforts they make to bring it about.

Both countries (as well as Iran, Qatar and Turkey) have been running extensive and highly effective political warfare campaigns against the State of Israel.

The former Soviet Union’s campaign, led by the KGB, goes all the way back to the 1960s and was called ‘Operation SIG’. Its documented purpose was to undermine U.S. and British interests in the Middle East by turning a religious war by the Arabs against the Jews into a war of national liberation, a Soviet specialization for destabilization operations. They rebranded the Arabs in the land as the ‘Palestinian people’, wrote the Palestinian National Charter, and took control of the Palestine Liberation Organization to attack Israel.

It was in Moscow that the now familiar fabrications against Israel of illegal occupation, land theft, apartheid, genocide and all the rest were first dreamt up.

China’s political warfare campaign began more recently and built upon the Soviet foundations. Both the US Department of Justice and the US House of Representatives’ Ways and Means Committee are currently investigating Beijing’s funding of widespread anti-Israel protests in America and elsewhere, including Europe and the United Kingdom. (more…)