KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says his Russian counterpart’s recent remarks about Adolf Hitler and Jews demonstrate “the deeply-rooted antisemitism of the Russian elites.”
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In an interview with an Italian news channel, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov claimed that Ukraine could still have Nazi elements even if some figures, including President Volodymry Zelenskyy, were Jewish. “Hitler also had Jewish origins, so it doesn’t mean anything,” he said, according to an Italian translation.
“Lavrov could not help hiding the deeply rooted antisemitism of the Russian elites,” Kuleba said in a tweet Monday. “His heinous remarks are offensive to President Zelenskyy, Ukraine, Israel, and the Jewish people. More broadly, they demonstrate that today’s Russia is full of hatred towards other nations.”
Surely Lavrov is aware that Russia was an ally of the Nazis, before the Nazis bid Russia adieu.
I have always wondered: why do Jews people so easily accept outrages about “Jewish ancestry” of various historical figures, good, evil, or neutral, without a shred of evidence? Hitler, Lenin, Columbus, Khaddafi, Elvis, and so many others, are rumored, and believed(!) by many gullible uneducated Jews, to be “Jewish” or of “Jewish ancestry.”