Ivan Bassov, at The Blogs

Jun 18, 2025, 9:15 PM

Ziophobe Newspeak: A Glossary of Euphemisms for Erasing Israel

A Side-by-Side Map of Meaning: Reality vs. Ziophobe Lexicon — a world where “justice” means erasure, “resistance” means terror, and every word is a trap. One lexicon reveals truth; the other rewrites it. Image © Ivan Bassov, 2025. Licensed under CC0 (public domain dedication).

How Anti-Israel Rhetoric Rebrands Hatred as Humanitarianism In today’s ideological battlefield, language is not just a tool—it’s a weapon. Nowhere is this more evident than in the rhetoric of modern anti-Zionists, or as I call them, Ziophobes. These aren’t your run-of-the-mill...

Jun 16, 2025, 10:54 AM

Why Does Israel Alone Stand Trial?

Only one state is ever put “on trial”—endlessly—for existing. Image © Ivan Bassov, 2025. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

A Meditation on the World's Double Standard Every war leaves behind refugees. Every state arises from conflict, from migration, from conquest or colonialism or chance. Borders are redrawn, peoples are displaced, nations are invented—and the world moves on. Except in one...

Jun 10, 2025, 6:56 AM

What If Finland Had an UNRWA for Karelians?

A displaced Karelian family from the Russo-Finnish War of 1939–1940 builds a homestead from scratch in Southern Finland. The land was forested and undeveloped—but they were given a future, not trapped in perpetual refugee status. Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

How Karelian Refugees Rebuilt Their Lives—While UNRWA “Refugees” Were Trapped in Limbo After the Russo-Finnish War of 1939–1940, the Soviet Union annexed roughly 10% of Finland’s territory—including the region of Karelia—which remains part of Russia to this day. About 410,000...

Jun 10, 2025, 12:41 AM

Petition: Reclaim the True Palestinian Identity — End the Great Identity Theft!

Boston Evening Globe, May 1, 1948: “Arabs Invade Palestine.” In 1948, the world knew exactly who the invaders were. Only now do some pretend to forget.

Join the movement to restore historical truth and identity authenticity ⚠️ ATTENTION: Change.org removed our petition after a wave of coordinated complaints — a sign of how threatening truth can be to those who rely on erasing it. But censorship...

Jun 8, 2025, 5:14 PM

Permanent Refugees, Permanent War

Gaza’s people: Trapped by design. Preserved for propaganda. Denied escape — by those who claim to speak for them. Image © Ivan Bassov, 2025. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

The Cruel Ideology Behind the Gaza Genocide Narrative “If This Were Really Genocide, You’d Demand an Evacuation.” That was the title—and the straightforward premise—of my last article. The response? A flood of outrage. Not at the idea of people dying, but...

Jun 6, 2025, 6:33 PM

If This Were Really Genocide, You’d Demand an Evacuation

When cries of ‘genocide’ serve spectacle, not safety: Gaza civilians are trapped as unwilling actors in a staged moral theater—denied escape, denied protection, and preserved only as headlines. Image © Ivan Bassov, 2025. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Exposing the Moral Fraud Behind the Gaza Genocide Narrative The loudest voices crying “genocide” in Gaza aren’t acting like they believe it. They’re not demanding evacuation corridors. They’re not pressuring Egypt—the only country besides Israel that borders Gaza—to open its...

Jun 5, 2025, 7:41 AM

The Land Without a People for the People Without a Land

"Help Him Build Palestine" — Zionist poster by Modest Stein for Keren Hayesod (Palestine Foundation Fund), 1930

There’s a phrase that Ziophobes love to hate: A land without people for people without a land. They brandish it like a rhetorical weapon, shouting that Zionists denied the existence of Arabs in Palestine, used the phrase to justify colonialism, and...

May 31, 2025, 2:36 PM

The Palestine Paradox Ends Here

The border fence between Gaza and Egypt isn’t just a barrier — it’s a system designed to keep Gaza’s settlers stateless and aggrieved. That’s what apartheid really looks like. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Why the Only Just Solution Lies in Ending the “Palestinian” Fiction and Embracing Historical Reality Let’s entertain the thought experiment. What if Israel ceased to be a Jewish-majority state? What if millions of Arab settlers or so-called “refugees” were granted a...

May 29, 2025, 5:19 AM

Boycotters Without a Cause: The Circus of Hypocritical Activism

Ziophobes scream “BDS! Boycott Israel!” while proudly promoting boycott apps — on LinkedIn, owned by Microsoft, the very company they call “most complicit in genocide.” Image © Ivan Bassov, 2025. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

The BDS movement demands a boycott — just not of anything they actually use In the grand theater of modern outrage, few performances are more farcical than the so-called “boycott movement” against Israel. BDS activists — those self-appointed moral arbiters of justice — love...

May 27, 2025, 12:46 PM

Debunking the ‘Apartheid’ Myth

Peaceful Coexistence in Israel. Arab citizens form an integral part of Israeli society. Image © Ivan Bassov, 2025. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Facts vs. Fiction in the Israeli Reality Accusations that Israel is an "apartheid state" have become the slogan of choice for anti-Zionist activists, echoing relentlessly across social media and international forums. But strip away the hashtags and headlines, and the...

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Dr. Ivan Bassov is a Russian-American-Israeli Palestinian—because Palestine is Israel, and truth demands clarity. A leading inventor in computer science and a graduate of the University of Haifa, he holds over 80 patents in data storage. Based in Brookline, a part of the greater Boston area, he works at Oracle and writes with conviction about Israel, Jewish Palestinian identity, and the powerful ideas that shape human behavior and steer the course of history.

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