The purported quote from Putin specifies godless Jews who have no faith.
I’ve met people like this. They identify as Jews, but do not practice,
Putin’s antisemitism is not a good look for your side.
“I’ve met people like this. They identify as Jews, but do not practice,”
All Jews are Jewish but not all Jewish people are Jews. These are liberal Jewish people who are basically godless, but pretend to be a Jew. I am saying this as a Jew.
Note that he didn't talk about anti-Judaism i.e. it was not about the religion of the person, but the RACE of the person.
That is the difference between the supposed anti-semitism of Luther (he was more "anti-anyone who disagrees with me") who would embrace an ethnic Jew if he followed Luther's teachings (but not if he became a Calvinist, Catholic or Baptist!) and the antisemitism of the Nutzos
The anti-semitism of the Nutzos was based on Darwinism - if you read
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you will see that for the core group of Nutzos, they were heavily influenced by the 19th century theories of evolution applied to race - let's call it neo-Darwinism (even though Darwin didn't espouse them or anything like them) - if you read H's writings, it is clear that he saw it as a RACE war where it was survival of the fittest. And he felt that the Jews were initially winning (even though, he thought they were inferior, but then most of H's "logic" was equally wackadoodle like his policy towards the Aryan Gypsies)
Putin bringing up the trope "ethnically but not practicing Jews" is a horrific race anti-semitism that was prevalent in Russia ever since the partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth at the end of the 18th century gave a previously mono-ethnic, mono-religious Muscowy with a large chunk of Jews (and Catholics - but the Catholics were Slavs) who had been allowed, in the PLC, full freedom to NOT assimilate
by the 1850s this hardened into Russification and the Protocols of the elders of Zion
This was a reaction to the FACT that in the early 1800s, Muscowite culture was poor at best and was being swamped by Polish and by Jewish intellectuals