Anti-Semitic cooperation between State Security and the Palestine Liberation Organization

In 1981, the Czechoslovak State Security (StB) negotiated with the Palestine Liberation Organization, which offered to assassinate or kidnap exiled dissident **Jiří Pelikán**. While the StB rejected direct violence, it cooperated on antisemitic propaganda, notably plans to republish *Entdecktes Judenthum* (“Judaism Unmasked”) by **Johann Andreas Eisenmenger**. Long used in antisemitic discourse, the book was framed by the StB as exposing “Jewish aggression,” illustrating how late socialist anti-Zionism overlapped with classical antisemitism, particularly as Pelikán—of Jewish origin—was branded a Zionist enemy.