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Why Russia has once again turned on the Jews

Like anti-Zionists, the Putinistas call their enemies Nazis in order to pose as heroic

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Melanie Phillips
May 06, 2022
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“Stop your cruel oppression of the Jews”: Theodore Roosevelt admonishes the Russian Czar; Emil Flohri, 1904

Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, caused outrage earlier this week after he was asked on Italian TV how Russia could claim to be “de-Nazifying” Ukraine when its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is Jewish.

Lavrov replied: “I could be wrong, but…

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