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Israel Condemns Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s Comments That Hitler Was Jewish

Israel blasted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for his comments on Nazism, suggesting that just because Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is Jewish doesn’t mean his country doesn’t have Nazi elements.

Russia has falsely justified its invasion of Ukraine as “denazifying” the country.

“So when they say ‘How can Nazification exist if we’re Jewish?’ In my opinion, Hitler also had Jewish origins, so it doesn’t mean absolutely anything. For some time we have heard from the Jewish people that the biggest antisemites were Jewish,” Lavrov said on an Italian television program over the weekend.

Israel has condemned Russia but has stayed neutral by not formally punishing Russia for their invasion of Ukraine through sanctions. Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid criticized Lavrov’s statement as being “unforgivable and outrageous” as well as a “terrible historical error.”

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“Jews did not murder themselves in the Holocaust,” he added. “The lowest level of racism against Jews is to accuse Jews themselves of antisemitism.”

Israel Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel announced that he would not allow “the cheapening of the Holocaust” in a Sunday comment.

Ukrainian officials were quick to denounce Lavrov’s comments as well.

Presidential adviser Mykailo Podolyak wrote in a Tweet that “Moscow is simply looking for arguments to justify the mass murders of Ukrainians.”

 

Rose Carter

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