Israel has lambasted Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov
for claiming Germany’s Adolf Hitler had Jewish origins, insisting it was an
“unforgivable” falsehood that debased the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust.
In a sign of sharply fading relations with Russia, the
Israeli foreign ministry summoned the Russian ambassador and required an
apology.
“Such lies are intended to accuse the Jews themselves of the
most horrific crimes in history that were committed against them,” Naftali
Bennett, the Israeli Prime Minister, said in a statement.
“The use of the Holocaust of the Jewish people for political
purposes must stop immediately,” Bennett added.
Recall that Leaders from several Western nations denounced
Lavrov’s comments and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy indicted Russia of
having forgotten the lessons of World War II.
Lavrov made the statement on Italian television, Rete 4
channel, on Sunday, after he was asked why Russia said it needed to “denazify”
Ukraine if president Zelenskiy, was himself Jewish.
He said, “When they say ‘What sort of nazification is this
if we are Jews’, well I think that Hitler also had Jewish origins, so it means
nothing.”
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