{"id":13869,"date":"2022-05-02T18:28:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T10:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=13869"},"modified":"2022-05-02T18:28:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T10:28:34","slug":"israel-denounces-lavrovs-hitler-comments-summons-russian-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=13869","title":{"rendered":"Israel denounces Lavrov’s Hitler comments, summons Russian ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

JERUSALEM, May 2<\/strong> – Israel denounced on Monday Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for suggesting that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had Jewish roots, and demanded an apology from Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israeli Foreign Ministry Yair Lapid said the Russian ambassador would be summoned for “a tough talk” over the comments, which Lavrov made on Sunday in an interview with Italian television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It is an unforgivable, scandalous statement, a terrible historical mistake, and we expect an apology,”<\/em> Lapid told the YNet news website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There was no immediate comment from the Russian embassy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During his interview with Italy’s Rete 4 channel, Lavrov was asked how Russia could claim that it needed to “denazify” Ukraine when the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, was Jewish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“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,”<\/em> Lavrov said, speaking through an Italian interpreter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“For a long time now we’ve been hearing the wise Jewish people say that the biggest anti-Semites are the Jews themselves,”<\/em> he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dani Dayan, chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel’s memorial to the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust, called Lavrov’s remarks “an insult and a severe blow to the victims of the real Nazism”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking on Israel’s Kan radio, Dayan said Lavrov was spreading “an antisemitic conspiracy theory with no basis in fact”.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NMT<\/a> as reported by Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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