The Israeli Foreign Ministry called the Russian ambassador for an explanatory conversation after the words of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov about the Jews. This was reported by the Kan 11 TV channel.
“The remarks of Foreign Minister Lavrov are both an unforgivable and scandalous statement, as well as a terrible historical mistake. Jews did not kill themselves during the Holocaust,” Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid tweeted. context-cite__image» alt=»1″ />«We are in the subway, we bombing is not the first day. What Jews of Ukraine say about Russian «denazification»
A journalist from the Italian TV channel Mediaset asked Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov how Ukraine's accusations of Nazism fit in with the fact that President Vladimir Zelensky is a Jew.
In response Lavrov said: “Secondly, there is nazification: the captured militants and the Azov and Aidar battalions and other units, wear the symbol and tattoos of the swastika on their clothes, their body, the Nazi battalions of the Waffen-SS, openly read and propagate Mein Kampf. He (Zelensky — MZ) puts forward an argument: what kind of Nazism can they have if he is a Jew. I may be wrong, but Hitler also had Jewish blood. It means absolutely nothing. The wise Jewish people say that the most ardent anti-Semites are usually Jews. «The family has its black sheep,» as we say.