Foreign Ministry responded to Israeli statements about anti-Semitism in Ukraine

Building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation . File photoMOSCOW, May 3.The Russian Foreign Ministry responded to the «anti-historical» statements of the Israeli Foreign Minister about the absence of manifestations of anti-Semitism in Ukraine, explaining that Vladimir Zelensky is speculating on his origin to cover up neo-Nazi policies, and Israel, ignoring these facts, supports such a regime. Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said he wants an apology from the Russian side for the statement of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennet, commenting on the words of the Russian Foreign Minister, declared the inadmissibility of using the tragedy of the Holocaust for political purposes. Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov was summoned for an explanatory conversation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Jewish state, the press service of the Foreign Ministry reported on Monday morning.The Israeli Foreign Ministry demanded an apology for Lavrov's words about the Jews On Sunday, Lavrov told the Italian television company Mediaset that there is «Nazification» in Ukraine, «captured Azov militants and battalions» (against whose fighters criminal cases were initiated in the Russian Federation — ed.), «Aidar» and other units wear … the symbol and tattoos of the swastika, the Nazi battalions.» Lavrov added that Volodymyr Zelensky «puts forward an argument: what kind of Nazism can they have if he is a Jew.» According to the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, which are quoted on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, «I could be wrong, but A. Hitler also had Jewish blood,» «this means absolutely nothing, the wise Jewish people say that the most ardent anti-Semites are usually Jews.» “We paid attention to the anti-historical statements of Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, which largely explain the course of the current Israeli government to support the neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv… For some reason, the Western press is still arguing about whether there are neo-Nazis in Ukraine (and some our liberals). As one of the «reinforced concrete» arguments, the Jewish origin of Vladimir Zelensky is cited. The argument, not only is untenable, is also crafty,» the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement published on its Telegram account. The Russian ministry recalled that history knows tragic examples of Jewish collaboration with the Nazis.The Prime Minister of Israel urged not to use the Holocaust for political purposes «In Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe, the Germans appointed Jewish industrialists as heads of ghettos and Jewish councils («Judenrats»), some of them were remembered for absolutely monstrous deeds … At the same time, the historical tragedy lies in the fact that that if during the Second World War some Jews were forced to participate in crimes, then Volodymyr Zelensky, who speculates on his roots, does this quite consciously and quite voluntarily. He hides behind his origin and covers with it the natural neo-Nazis, spiritual and blood heirs of the executioners of his people,» the statement said. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. «The Jewish origin of the president is not a guarantee of protection from rampant neo-Nazism in the country. Ukraine, by the way, is not the only one like this now. The President of Latvia, Egils Levits, also has Jewish roots. And he also «successfully» covers up the rehabilitation of the Waffen SS in his country » , — emphasized in the department. The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the head of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Yai r Lapid cynically ignores the «epidemic of destruction and desecration of monuments to the real righteous people of the world» — the soldiers of the Red Army who stopped the Holocaust and saved the Jewish world. , in Ukraine has increased many times over.The Italian media themselves invited Lavrov for an interview, Zakharova said. Neo-Nazis defiled the menorah in Kyiv on Hanukkah, and in Nikolaev, anti-Semites cut the Hanukkah garland,» the Russian Foreign Ministry said. Household and political anti-Semitism and Nazism are not suppressed, on the contrary, they are nurtured,» the Russian ministry concluded. Earlier, the president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FEOR), Rabbi Alexander Boroda, told RIA Novosti that a surge in anti-Semitic sentiment is observed in the United States, Europe and the former USSR , where anti-Semitism is caused by the revision of the results of the Second World War, and Russia is «pleasant with the exception», in Russia there is no rise in anti-Semitism either at the household level, or at the level of any organizations, and even more so at the state level.