Anti-Zionism functions as dual-purpose domestic and foreign policy

Evidence

Zionism thus serves a double purpose for the Soviet Union. At home it provides the necessary ideological instrument for the containment of what is seen as a danger to the political loyalties of an important group of Soviet subjects and a potentially disruptive force extending to other national liberation movements among the subject peoples of the Soviet Union and of the larger Soviet Empire. Abroad it helps to create suspicion and disunity and thus weaken resistance to Soviet purposes. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1373

Categorization

• XREF: Mechanism passage showing how a representation regime serves internal control and external propaganda simultaneously — parallel to how Orientalist discourse scholar accounts treat knowledge as serving both domestic and imperial ordering.
• SEED: Angles here: how a single ideological category does double duty for state control — comparable micro-studies could examine how ‘terrorism’ discourse or ‘civilizational’ talk today similarly serves internal and external purposes.