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Israel denounced the Foreign Minister Russia Sergei Lavrov who called Adolf Hitler had Jewish origins. Israel says it is an ‘unforgivable’ lie that denigrates the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust.
Reported from ReutersOn Tuesday (3/5/2022), leaders from several Western countries criticized Lavrov’s comments and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Russia of forgetting lessons from World War Two.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry has summoned an ambassador Russia and demanded an apology.
“Such lies are meant to accuse the Jews themselves of the most horrific crimes in history committed against them,” said Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
“The use of the Holocaust of Jews for political purposes must stop immediately,” he added.
Lavrov made the remarks on Italian television last Sunday when he was asked why Russia said it needed to ‘denazify’ Ukraine if the country’s own President, Volodymyr Zelensky, was a Jew.
“When they say ‘What kind of Naziification is this if we are Jews’, I think Hitler also had Jewish origins, so it doesn’t mean anything,” Lavrov told the channel. Network 4who spoke through an Italian translator.
“For a long time we have heard wise Jews say that the greatest anti-Semites are the Jews themselves,” he added.
Zelensky, in his evening video message, said Moscow had been silent since Lavrov’s comments.
“This means that the Russian leadership has forgotten all the lessons of the Second World War. Or maybe they never learned those lessons,” he said.
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