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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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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