russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that "the fiercest anti-Semites are usually Jews." So, he tried to prove the need for "denazification" of Ukraine, according to LIGA.net.
Lavrov gave an interview to the Italian television company Mediasat on May 1, in which he tried to justify russia's military aggression against Ukraine.
"He (Zelenskyy - Ed.) puts forward an argument: what can be a nationalization 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 fiercest anti-Semites are usually Jews. "The family is not without a freak," as we say," said the russian minister.
Israeli Foreign Minister Jair Lapid responded to the allegations.
He wrote on Twitter that "Foreign Minister Lavrov's statement is an outrageous and irreparable statement, as well as a terrible historical mistake. Jews did not kill themselves during the Holocaust. The lowest level of racism against Jews is to accuse Jews of anti-Semitism."
Dani Diane, chairman of the board of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial complex, called Lavrov’s speech “an unfounded, dangerous delusion that deserves condemnation."
And the Anti-Defamation League called on russians to "immediately stop misusing Nazism, Hitler and the Holocaust."
The Presidential Office of Ukraine also reacted to the remark of the Minister of the aggressor country.
As the head of the OPU, Andriy Yermak, noted, "this is cave anti-Semitism, which covers up conspiracy theories on which dictatorial regimes are always built."
"They are no longer hiding and are openly showing it to the world. At first, they hit rockets on the territory where the Babin Yar memorial complex is located. Now russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is comparing Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Hitler, who killed 6 million Jews. "This is how russia is trying to explain its nonsense about “denazification”, in fact questioning the existence not only of the Ukrainian nation, but also of the Holocaust," Yermak emphasized.
He emphasized that "such undisguised russian aggression and disrespect for the historical memory of entire nations should not go unanswered" and expressed solidarity with the Jewish people.
In the beginning of March as a result of the attack on the Kyiv television tower 5 people died, 5 more suffered. The Babin Yar memorial complex was also destroyed.