Ba'thaism is a Stalinist, Ethnonationalist ideology based on the idea of creating a unified Arab State in the Middle-East and parts of North Africa and the Caucuse mountains. It is the ideology of the Bashar Al-Assad's Syrian Government today. It was historically been closely aligned with the USSR, and has been known for Anti-Semitism, support for active genocide of Jews in Israel, opposition to Kurdish independence and supporting ethnic cleansing of Kurds, and generally unsupportive of Non-Arabs in the Middle-East and North Africa.