Why Russia has once again turned on the Jews

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

May 06, 2022

∙ Paid

“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…

Keep reading with a 7-day free trial

Subscribe to Melanie Phillips to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.