Israel has summoned the Russian ambassador and demanded an apology over remarks by the Kremlin foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, that Adolf Hitler “had Jewish blood” and that the “most rabid antisemites tend to be Jews”.
The remarks were part of Lavrov’s defence of Russia’s policy of “denazification” in Ukraine, the Kremlin’s term for a sweeping purge that Ukraine says is a pretext for “mass murder.”
In an interview with Italian TV, Lavrov was asked to address how Russia could say it needed to “denazify” the country when its president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, is Jewish.
“As to [Zelenskiy’s] argument of what kind of nazification can we have if I’m Jewish, if I remember correctly, and I may be wrong, Hitler also had Jewish blood,” Lavrov said during an interview with Italian television channel Mediaset. “It doesn’t mean anything at all.” » | Andrew Roth and Angela Giuffrida in Rome | Monday, May 2, 2022
Israel verlangt Entschuldigung von Lawrow nach Hitler-Vergleich: Nachdem der russische Außenminister den ukrainischen Präsidenten Selenskyj mit Hitler verglichen hatte, fordert Israel eine Entschuldigung. Lawrow hatte gesagt, dass die eifrigsten Antisemiten Juden gewesen seien. »
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