Sergei Lavrov has made controversial comments about Hitler's 'Jewish blood' and said Israel supports the 'neo-Nazi' regime in Kyiv
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. “Using the Holocaust of the Jewish people as a political tool must cease immediately.”
Israel has not joined sanctions against Russia over its invasion nor has it provided military aid to Ukraine, though it’s yet to be seen whether Sergei Lavrov’s words will change that dynamic. At the very least, the spat prompted Israel for the first time to publicly condemn Russia’s claim that Zelensky is a Nazi.
Still, experts say it’s wrong to simply attribute Lavrov’s comments to simple blundering. Despite Russia’s insistence that Ukraine must be “denazified,” the government of Vladimir Putin is all too willing to wield antisemitic conspiracies when they suit. Oliver Bullough, author of, tells TIME that Lavrov’s comments “reflect the weirdly irrational conspiratorial mindset of most senior Russian officials.
Even so, it’s rare for a senior Kremlin official to openly voice such views. “At the moment, the Russian political class has crossed the red line,” says Ilya Yablokov, a lecturer at the University of Sheffield and author of“Basically, they have no limitations and can talk about whatever they want.
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