Sayanim

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The sayanim (singular sayan , from the Hebrew helper, helper ) have been known as passive agents, or more commonly better known as "sleeping agents" outside Israel , since the publication of the work of a former agent of the Israeli intelligence service, Victor Ostrovsky , to help Mossad agents with logistical support. The term also describes Palestinians who have agreed to cooperate with the Israeli army , as well as Jews in the diaspora who, out of patriotic feelings for Israel, choose to cooperate with the Mossad from the moment.

term

In principle, the Sayanim only take part in legal activities and are not part of intelligence activities or espionage operations, despite striking exceptions. Former Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky mentions their existence in his memoir.

According to the social scientist Samuel Salzborn, the accusation of being a Sayanim often hits critics of the anti-Semitism that is widespread among Palestinians . A huge, worldwide operating network of such sayanim is imagined, who would act as the “shadow warriors” of the Mossad or as the fifth column of Israel. This conspiracy fantasy serves to immunize itself against criticism and to move Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East , semantically close to dictatorships and thus to delegitimize it.

Fiction

literature

  • Gilad Atzmon : The Parabole d'Esther: Anatomie du Peuple Elu . Demi-Lune, 2012, ISBN 9782917112199
  • Thomas Gordon: Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad . St. Martin's Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-312-25284-6
  • Victor Ostrovsky: By Way of Deception-The making and unmaking of a Mossad Officer . St. Martin's Press, New York 1990, ISBN 0-9717595-0-2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jeffrey T. Richelson, The Mossad Imagined: The Israeli Secret Service in Film and Fiction , International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2007, pp. 137-138
  2. ↑ Jeffrey T. Richelson, The Mossad Imagined: The Israeli Secret Service in Film and Fiction , International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2007, pp. 136–166
  3. ↑ Collaboration in the Occupied Territories: Human Rights Abuses and Violations , Jerusalem, B'Tselem, January 1994, p. 209
  4. ↑ Larry Defner, Thank you for your cooperation , Jerusalem Post, March 2, 2006, accessed October 14, 2016
  5. ↑ Michael Goodspeed: When Reason Fails: Portraits of Armies at War: America, Britain, Israel and the Future , Praeger Publisher, 2002, p. 127
  6. ^ Samuel Salzborn: Global anti-Semitism. A search for traces in the abyss of modernity. Beltz Juventa, Weinheim 2018, p. 156 f.