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Reasons for Jewish Opposition to Communism:
Anti-Religious Stance: Communist regimes often suppressed Jewish religious practices, seeing them as counter-revolutionary.
Hostility to Zionism: Communism viewed Zionism (the movement for a Jewish homeland) as a bourgeois nationalist movement, making it an enemy.
Destruction of Jewish Culture: Communist ideology sought to erase specific Jewish cultural and political identities, even among Jewish communists.
Experience with Persecution: The memory of Tsarist persecution and the rise of Nazi Germany, which used "Judeo-Bolshevism" as propaganda, solidified anti-communist sentiment.

Anti-Communism within Jewish Communities:
Many Jewish individuals and organizations became staunch anti-communists, seeing the ideology as a threat to Jewish survival and values, participating in events like the Red Scare.
The perceived radicalism of some Jews in Hollywood and other fields made them targets during anti-communist purges like the HUAC investigations.

However, the Soviet Union, while initially banning antisemitic propaganda, later used anti-Zionism as a guise for antisemitism, further alienating many Jews.

Lucy Dawidowicz