Video Aider Muzhdabaev from May 19, 2026, with the theme “Free-Palestinian” weapons of roZia. “From the river to the sea” — part of the Kremlin axis“ is built around one harsh thought: the modern anti-Israel hysteria in Europe, according to the author, does not exist separately from Russian propaganda, but works as part of a broader information war against Ukraine, Israel, and Western societies.
This is not just a conversation about slogans, rallies, or debates around Gaza.
Muzhdabaev connects several processes: attempts by Western media to equate the victim and the aggressor, the rise of ultra-left and ultra-right movements, TikTok propaganda, old Soviet anti-Zionist schemes, and current Kremlin narratives. At the center of his reasoning is the question of why Israel and Ukraine increasingly find themselves in the same attack zone by those who verbally speak of humanism but in practice repeat formulas beneficial to Moscow.
What this video is about
Aider Muzhdabaev begins with a topic that is painfully understandable today to both Ukrainians and Israelis: how media can change the optics of society.
After attacks on Russian territory, he says, part of the Western media begins to write about the suffering of Russians as if there is no cause-and-effect relationship, no full-scale invasion, no Ukrainian cities destroyed by Russian missiles, and no right of the victim to resist.
It is here that the author draws a parallel with Israel.
According to his logic, a similar mechanism is used against Israel: first, aggression and terror are taken out of the brackets, then attention is shifted only to retaliatory actions, after which the victim is gradually portrayed as the “new aggressor.” Thus, a convenient formula for propaganda appears: Ukraine is “to blame itself,” Israel “uses disproportionate force,” and the real source of violence disappears from the frame.
Why “Free Palestine” is compared to the “Russian world”
The main provocative line of the video is the comparison of the slogan “Free Palestine” in the current European street format with the ideology of the “Russian world.”
Muzhdabaev does not speak about the right of people to sympathize with civilians. His claim is directed at another construction: when, under the guise of protecting Palestine, hatred towards Israel is spread, Israeli security is denied, Hamas is justified, or an attempt is made to present a terrorist structure as an analogue of Ukraine.
For the author, this is a fundamentally unacceptable mixture.
Ukraine, in his view, is defending itself against Russian aggression. Israel is defending itself against forces that do not recognize its right to exist. And the attempt to put Ukraine in the place of Gaza, and Israel in the place of Russia, looks like a deliberate substitution beneficial to the Kremlin.
Kremlin axis: ultra-left, ultra-right, and the old Soviet matrix
One of the central ideas of the video is the convergence of extreme political flanks.
Muzhdabaev compares the ultra-left and ultra-right to two heads of one imperial eagle. Formally, they feud with each other, but on the issues of Russia, Ukraine, Israel, and the anti-Western agenda, they unexpectedly begin to sound almost the same.
The ultra-right often promote sympathy for Putin, isolationism, and the thesis “no need to help Ukraine.”
The ultra-left, according to the author, act differently: through pacifist slogans, anti-Israel marches, anti-Zionist rhetoric, and the constant demand to “stop the war” without distinguishing between aggressor and victim.
As a result, both streams work towards one goal — to weaken the ability of Western societies to distinguish defense from attack, the right to self-defense from aggression, a democratic country from a terrorist or imperial project.
Why this is important for Israel and Ukraine
For the Israeli audience, this topic sounds especially acute.
Israel has already faced a situation where, after a terrorist attack, international attention gradually shifts from the crime of the aggressor to the actions of the country that responds. Ukraine sees a similar process: Russian aggression continues, but more and more publications and comments appear where the cause of the war is no longer discussed, but the “too harsh” response of Kyiv.
In this context, NANews — News of Israel | Nikk.Agency considers Muzhdabaev’s video as part of a broader discussion about how Russian propaganda works not only through direct Kremlin channels but also through foreign slogans, foreign protests, foreign media fatigue, and foreign emotionality.
The main blow, which the author speaks of, is directed not only against a specific country.
It is directed against the ability of society to maintain moral clarity.
What Aider Muzhdabaev is trying to show
The video is constructed as a warning.
Muzhdabaev says that young people are especially vulnerable to short emotional videos, TikTok narratives, and simple slogans, where a complex war turns into a picture: “weak against strong,” “victim against army,” “people against state.”
The problem is that such a picture easily becomes a tool of manipulation.
If you remove the context of October 7, remove the role of Hamas, remove the Russian invasion of Ukraine, remove missile attacks, kidnappings, terror, and the ideology of destruction, then any inverted scheme can be sold to the viewer. In such a scheme, Israel becomes a “colonial aggressor,” Ukraine — a “new threat to peace,” and Russia gets the opportunity to appear not as the source of the war, but supposedly as one of the sides of a global conflict.
This is what the author calls a dangerous loss of cause-and-effect connection.
The final meaning of the video
The main conclusion of Muzhdabaev can be formulated as follows: lies corrode society like acid.
First, it changes the language.
Then it changes the emotion.
Then it changes the moral map: the aggressor becomes a “complex side of the conflict,” the victim — “too harsh,” terrorists — “resistance,” and countries that defend themselves begin to be accused of daring to defend themselves at all.
Therefore, the video is important not only as a polemic around the slogan “From the river to the sea.” It is important as a conversation about how the Kremlin can use foreign protests, foreign media, and foreign naivety for one goal — to weaken support for Ukraine, demonize Israel, and blur the line between good and evil.
For Ukraine and Israel, this line is not theoretical.
It runs through the front, hostages, missiles, families of the deceased, cities under shelling, and the right of the people not to disappear under the pressure of those who want to rewrite reality by force.
Who is Aider Muzhdabaev and why his position is important for Israel
Aider Muzhdabaev is a Ukrainian journalist, publicist, media manager, and one of the prominent Crimean Tatar voices in the Ukrainian information space. He was born on March 8, 1972, in Tambov, is of Crimean Tatar origin, and after the start of Russian aggression against Ukraine, he took a consistent anti-Kremlin position. In 2015, he moved to Ukraine and became the deputy general director of the Crimean Tatar TV channel ATR.
Before moving to Kyiv, Muzhdabaev worked for many years in the Russian press, including the newspaper “Moskovsky Komsomolets,” where he was deputy editor-in-chief. His departure from the Russian media environment was not just a professional turn, but a political and moral choice against the backdrop of the annexation of Crimea, Russia’s war against Ukraine, and the transformation of Russian media into a tool of Kremlin propaganda.
In Ukraine, Muzhdabaev became one of the public voices that constantly speak about Crimea, Crimean Tatars, Russian occupation, war, propaganda, and the responsibility of democratic societies in the face of aggression. For him, the topic of Russia is not abstract geopolitics, but a system of pressure, lies, and violence that is equally dangerous for Ukraine, Israel, and Europe.
Muzhdabaev’s connection with Israel also does not seem accidental. On January 29, 2026, his creative meeting took place in Tel Aviv at the Ukrainian Cultural Center, which is associated with the Embassy of Ukraine in Israel. The meeting was dedicated to the war, Crimea, Crimean Tatar resistance, Russian propaganda, and the collection of voluntary donations for the battalion named after Devlet I Giray.
For the Israeli audience, such a meeting had a separate meaning. Muzhdabaev addressed people who themselves live in a country with a constant threat of war, terror, and international pressure. Therefore, his conversation about Ukraine, Crimea, and Kremlin propaganda in Tel Aviv sounded not like a distant foreign policy topic, but as part of a common struggle of societies that defend their right to existence and security.
Muzhdabaev also has a personal Israeli line.
In one of his texts, he wrote that his sister Sonya moved to live in Israel, married an Israeli from Kyiv, and her child began studying in an Israeli school. This is an important detail: Israel for him is not only a political topic but also a real country where close people, families, children, repatriates live, and those who build a normal life against the backdrop of constant threats.
Muzhdabaev’s attitude towards Israel in his public comments is quite clear: he considers Israel as a country that defends itself, not as an aggressor. In the video about “Free-Palestinian” weapons of roZia, he places Ukraine and Israel in the same semantic row — as societies against which similar propaganda mechanisms work: substitution of causes and effects, equating the victim with the attacker, emotional pressure through media, and an attempt to destroy moral clarity.
That is why his position on Israel sounds not like an external comment of a commentator, but as a continuation of the general anti-Kremlin optics. Muzhdabaev sees in the anti-Israel hysteria not just a dispute about the Middle East, but a convenient tool for Russia: through slogans, TikTok, street marches, ultra-left and ultra-right movements, the Kremlin, in his opinion, tries to simultaneously strike at Israel, Ukraine, and Western societies.
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