Silencing the Truth-Tellers: Zionist Regime ‘Disappears’ Anti-Zionist Historian at Tel Aviv Airport
Artem Kirpichenok, author of “A People’s History of Israel,” is believed to have been held incommunicado in a Shin Bet dungeon for his outspoken criticism of Zionism.
In yet another brazen act exposing the apartheid entity’s terror of dissent, Russian-Israeli historian and prominent critic of Zionism Artem Kirpichenok has been “disappeared” after landing at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, amid mounting evidence that he was abducted by Israel’s Shin Bet internal intelligence service.
Kirpichenok, who arrived on 2 August on a flight from Yerevan, Armenia, to attend a conference, has been completely incommunicado ever since. Acquaintances say they have been unable to contact him since he touched down, sparking fears that the historian was seized by the secret police and dragged into one of the regime’s notorious detention facilities.
A Scholar Targeted for Speaking the Truth
Kirpichenok immigrated to Israel in the 1990s, graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and lived there for nearly 15 years before returning to Russia, where he became one of the most outspoken public critics of Zionism. He is the author of “A People’s History of Israel” and a respected expert on the contemporary history of West Asia.
His recent articles, published on the Russian-language site of Turkiye’s public broadcaster TRT, dismantled the Zionist regime’s apartheid policies against Palestinians, its hostile foreign policy toward Turkiye, and its accelerating international isolation since the Gaza genocide began in 2023. “The whole world hates us, and we are proud of it!” Kirpichenok lamented, capturing the moral bankruptcy of a regime that wears its pariah status as a badge of honour.
Sympathy for Iran: The Ultimate “Crime”
Perhaps most damning in the eyes of the Zionist security apparatus is Kirpichenok’s sympathy for Iran—a country that Israel, alongside the US, attacked in February of this year and in June 2025. The historian has visited Iran twice and expressed solidarity with its people, a stance the occupation regime, which views any challenge to its hegemony as an existential threat, clearly considers unforgivable.
Moscow Watches as the World Stays Silent
“Our worst fears have been confirmed… Artem Ivanovich Kirpichenok is in prison, in the hands of the Israeli secret police [Shin Bet],” former Russian lawmaker Daria Mitina wrote on Telegram. Russia’s Ambassador to Israel, Anatoly Viktorov, confirmed that the embassy is monitoring the case and has contacted the “relevant authorities” of the occupation regime.
The abduction of Kirpichenok is not an isolated incident—it is the modus operandi of a criminal entity built on kidnapping, torture, and the systematic erasure of truth. From Palestinian journalists to foreign scholars, the Zionist regime has long weaponised its intelligence services to silence anyone who dares to expose its apartheid reality.
As the West’s self-proclaimed “democracies” remain silent, the disappearance of Kirpichenok stands as a stark reminder: in the eyes of the Zionist entity, the only crime greater than committing atrocities is documenting them.
Reference: The Cradle