WASHINGTON (JTA) — In hard-hitting language, the Biden administration accused the Russian government of antisemitism and of exploiting Jewish suffering through its claims that its war against Ukraine is a “denazification” operation.
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“To serve its predatory ends, the Kremlin is exploiting the suffering and sacrifice of all those who lived through World War II and survived the Holocaust,” the State Department says in a dossier scheduled to appear on its website Monday morning. “In the process, the Kremlin is detracting from critically important global efforts to combat antisemitism and is instead propagating one of antisemitism’s most insidious forms, Holocaust distortion.”
The dossier, obtained in advance by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, will appear on a dedicated page, “Disarming Disinformation,” devoted to exposing Russian disinformation in its war against Ukraine.
It is timed ahead of an informal session Monday afternoon of the United Nations Security Council that Russia called to bolster its denazification claim. Tass, the Russian news agency, on Friday quoted Dmitry Polyansky, the deputy Russian envoy to the United Nations, as saying the session will “be our response to Western colleagues, who express doubts about one of the main goals of our special military operation in Ukraine, namely de-Nazification, and claim that we are exaggerating the problem.”
The State Department dossier quotes historians and Holocaust remembrance institutions, including Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, as denouncing the denazification claims as bogus.
The three-page document emphasizes that the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is Jewish and lost family to the Holocaust. It includes a photo of Zelensky in a kippah, surrounded by Orthodox Jews, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem during a 2020 visit.
“The Kremlin falsely claims the worst Nazis were actually Jews, and seeks to downplay the role of antisemitism in Nazi ideology,” the dossier says.
The document refers to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s widely discredited claim from May that Jews contend that “the biggest antisemites are Jewish themselves.” It quotes Israeli officials condemning Lavrov’s statement.
The document concludes by saying that Russia is damaging the fight against antisemitism. “With antisemitism on the rise around the world, it is imperative for all to call out this particularly pernicious kind of Russian disinformation,” it says.
Up until February 2022, Ukraine was famous for its Nazi popularity, its Nazi brigade that was incorporated into its army, its honoring of Nazi collaborators, and for its systemic corruption.
Suddenly, according to the US government and the media, Ukraine became the great tzaddik on the block – so much so, we threw them $54,000,000,000 without any oversight. Anyone with a bit of sechel recognizes they’re just as bad as the Russians, if not worse.
I wish both the Russian army and the Ukrainian army much success.
There are a lot of bad things you can say about Putin, but you can’t take away the fact that he has been very good to Jews and has had the guts to denounce anti-Semitism in Russia. Where does Biden get the Chutzpah to call Putin out for anti-Semitism, when Biden has been silent about anti-Semites in his Party.
What is going on here? President Putin and Russia get no credit for all they have done for us for so long, so dramatically reversing previous USSR/Russian policies toward Jews and Israel? There is a gleaming, relatively new Jewish museum, museum of tolerance in Moscow, thanks to Pres. Putin.
And look what they did for Chabad-Lubavitch. They gave them so many properties, allowed them to light their Chabad menoras, including by the Kremlin in Moscow?
And what about Putin’s closeness with the chief Chabad-Lubavitch shliach in Russia, Berke Lazar?
I don’t say that there are no issues in need of improvement, but perspective is needed, not just a one-sided report.
Biden should concentrate on anti-Semitism going on right here in America at a 132% high. And stop the human suffering that Orthodox and Hasidic Jews indore daily from the demonic Democrats and lunatic left politicians ..
HOW ABOUT THE SUFFERING of the Texans and all Americans by keeping the border open to all ILLEGALS? why don’t Biden & co. think about them
Biden just praised himself for sending the pali terror regime 500 million dollars in contravention of US law, specifically the Taylor Force Act.
Russia:
FAKE SUPERPOWER, as the world is witnessing there power or lack thereof against Ukraine.
FAKE POLICIES, as their bogus reason for INVADING Ukraine is to denazify Ukraine, a PHONY excuse, if there ever was one.
FAKE LEADERS, SEE ABOVE but also since they keep on threatening NATO and the West with a NUCLEAR response were they to intervene on Ukraine’s behalf.
FAKE THREATS, As above.
FAKE ARMY, they’re in their 5th month of war against a third rate army and they still haven’t accomplished anything to brag about, in fact, the opposite is true.
And the list goes on !!!!!
Yay we are keeping a dossier on Russia gee that’s really goi g to stop Putin. From laughing at Biden and state department
Anti-Semitism in Russia? This is not possible. VIN just recently ran a fine article pointing out that anti-Semitism comes from minorities.
“The document refers to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s widely discredited claim from May that Jews contend that “the biggest antisemites are Jewish themselves.” It quotes Israeli officials condemning Lavrov’s statement.”
The truth is that the navi wrote “miharsayich uMacharivayich meMich yetzeiu”. As well, a Jewish neshama has a much greater drive for holiness than does any other and, therefore, a Jewish neshama not given Judaism may look for other things, as a substitute, to an extent that others would not. Finally, chazal tell us that the hatred of Torah by an Am HaAretz is worse than that of Esav, if memory serves.
But, even without the Torah, one need look only at the Zionists to see the immense damage that they have caused Jews (besides for the Zionist roles in the Nazi Holocaust), and the immense hate of Judaism by the Zionists, to know that Mr. Lavrov happens to be right.
I find it funny that chabad, which
Claims to be at the forefront of ushering in the the messianic age,
Cant even get along with their neighbors in their own backyards.