The remark of the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs making the parallel between the alleged “Jewish blood” of Hitler and the Jewish origins of the Ukrainian President has reacted the government of the Hebrew State.
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For two months, the Jewish state had nothing to say about the rhetoric of the Kremlin, which claims to conduct war in Ukraine to a “Nazi junta”. Anxious to maintain its neutrality in this conflict, the Israeli government had not had a single word to denounce this instrumentalization of the history of the Second World War and the Holocaust. Since the 1 May however, it is forced to react to anti -Semitic remarks accumulated on purpose by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Russian, Sergei Lavrov.
Questioned Sunday by the Italian media group Mediaset, Mr. Lavrov had to explain why he considered as an heir to Nazism this Ukrainian government whose president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is Jewish, as several senior state officials. He used an ancient assertion, devoid of historical legitimacy, which would like Adolf Hitler himself “Jewish blood”. According to him, “that does not mean anything. The Jewish wise men said that the most ardent anti-Semites are often the Jews themselves”.
The Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, reacted on Monday recalling that “no war is comparable to the Shoah … The use of the Jewish genocide as a political tool must stop immediately”. His powerful ally, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yaïr Lapid, was more direct, denouncing “scandalous, unforgivable and a horrible historical error”.
lesson addressed to Yaïr Lapid
From Tuesday, Moscow clarified his thought: “The current Israeli government supports the neonazi regime in kyiv.” Jews have collaborated with the Nazis in the Ghettos of Eastern Europe, insists this long text, published in Russian on The Telegram channel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. But if most of them did under duress, Mr. Zelensky would in turn have chosen to “cover” the “crimes” of the “heirs of the performers of his people”.
This lesson is addressed personally to a man, Yaïr Lapid, whose grandfather was the victim of the Shoah, and whose father was able to leave the Budapest ghetto thanks to Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat arrested by the Red Army In 1945, and disappeared in a Russian jail. For his country, these exchanges mark a turning point. “Now the Jews and Israel are involved: the State will no longer be able to remain silent in the face of this perversion of history. But that does not draw a change in Israeli politics,” said the former deputy Ksenia Svetlova, specialist From Russian influence to the Middle East.
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