Russia's antisemitism aimed at Ukraine's Zelenskyy is just the Kremlin variant

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Russia’s antisemitism aimed at Ukraine’s Zelenskyy is just the Kremlin variant of a very old European virus
The Conversation
June 29, 2022 8.06am EDT
By Michael Brenner
Professor of Jewish History and Culture at Ludwig Maximilian University and Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies, American University


Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, was asked in May 2022 how Russia could claim that Ukraine was run by Nazis, since Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is Jewish.

Lavrov’s response: “So what if Zelenskyy is Jewish? The fact does not negate the Nazi elements in Ukraine.” In fact, he claimed, Hitler himself had “Jewish blood,” and “the most ardent antisemites are usually Jews.”

Lavrov deliberately used offensive language aimed at a Ukrainian president who happens to be Jewish; his comments sparked an international uproar. Israel’s Foreign Minister, Yair Lapid, said in a statement, “The lowest level of racism against Jews is to accuse Jews themselves of antisemitism.”

…The antisemitic attacks on Zelenskyy, who might one day be remembered as the most popular Jewish hero of this era…As a historian of European Jewish history and antisemitism, I believe they are designed to foment hate and undermine his extraordinary leadership in the face of an unsolicited attack on a free nation….This latest version, originating in the Kremlin, is just a new, perfidious variant of the old virus called antisemitism.


A long article. Much more here

https://theconversation.com/russias-antisemitism-aimed-at-ukraines-zelenskyy-is-just-the-kremlin-variant-of-a-very-old-european-virus-183592

I would note that the American variant is present in MTG. Her Jewish laser comments coupled with disdain for Ukraine are twin thoughts originating from the same putrid fountain.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s said that the 2018 California wildfires were ignited by a space laser controlled by a corporate cabal and the Rothschild banking firm

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1. russian propaganda is often hate filled

The russians have been doing this to the Jewish community and to the Ukrainians for decades, if not centuries. It's a vicious attempt to divide and conquer.

Thank you for posting this and calling it out.

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2. Lavrov is nothing but a mouthpiece.