let’s turn to a 1959 KGB memo, which reported on the agency’s effort to analyze Jewish religious writings to better understand Zionism. With no religious background, and none in Jewish religious thought, KGB personnel ploughed through the Hebrew Bible and a dozen Russian-language Jewish prayer books. Their conclusion: Jewish religious writings are “permeated throughout with a spirit of militant nationalism and ‘spiritual racism,’” expressing “the racist conception of exclusivity and superiority of the Jewish people”
