Russia’s antisemitic waltz

Published May 4, 2022 3:42pm ET



Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is an antisemite.

On Sunday, he called Ukrainian Jews antisemites amid Russia’s so-called “de-Nazification” campaign in Ukraine. “When they say, ‘What sort of Nazification is this if we are Jews,’ well, I think that Hitler also had Jewish origins, so it means nothing,” Lavrov said. “For a long time now, we’ve been hearing the wise Jewish people say that the biggest antisemites are the Jews themselves,” he added.

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