Posted on 05/02/2022 2:49:55 AM PDT by RandFan
Israel's foreign minister has denounced as "unforgivable" remarks by his Russian counterpart that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler "had Jewish blood".
Russian FM Sergei Lavrov made the comments to try to justify Russia's portrayal of Ukraine as "Nazi" despite the fact that its president is Jewish.
Israel's foreign ministry summoned Russia's ambassador for "clarification" and demanded an apology.
Nazi Germany murdered six million Jews in the Holocaust in World War Two.
Mr Lavrov made the remarks in an interview with the Italian news channel Zona Bianca on Sunday, days after Israel marked Holocaust Remembrance Day, one of the most solemn occasions in the Israeli calendar.
When asked how Russia can claim that it is fighting to "de-Nazify" Ukraine when President Volodymyr Zelensky is himself Jewish, Mr Lavrov said: "So what if Zelensky is Jewish."
"The fact does not negate the Nazi elements in Ukraine. I believe that Hitler also had Jewish blood," adding that "some of the worst anti-Semites are Jews."
Israel's foreign minister reacted furiously to Mr Lavrov's statement, accusing him of anti-Semitism.
Mr Lavrov was also condemned by the head of Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial.
"Most of his remarks are absurd, delusional, dangerous and deserving of any condemnation," he tweeted. "Lavrov deals with the reversal of the Holocaust: turning the victims into criminals, based on the promotion of a completely unfounded claim that Hitler was of Jewish descent."
There have for decades been unproven claims that Hitler's unidentified paternal grandfather was Jewish, fuelled by an assertion by Hitler's lawyer Hans Frank.
In his memoir, published in 1953, Frank said he had been instructed by Hitler to investigate rumours that he had Jewish ancestry. Frank said he uncovered evidence that Hitler's grandfather was indeed Jewish - though the claim, which has gained ground among conspiracy theorists....
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“And it was absolutely stupid for the Lavrov to bring this up. What was the point?”
He’s just fed up with the claims that Zelensky cannot be working with Nazis, since Zelensky is Jewish. The same claims are made here, by the Bidenistas.
It’s no different than saying African blacks had nothing to do with enabling slavery (because they’re black) even though it’s not even debatable that African blacks went into the jungle to capture other blacks to sell off to whites, and virtually all slaves were caught that way. And that there were plenty of black slave owners in the US during that time...and some of them weren’t very nice to their slaves.
Yeah he was a Bayer chemist who was trying to make something else.
It’s not news that this theory is out there.
It’s news that people believe it. Or that some distant paternal ancestor Hitler either never or barely knew matters.
It was a pesticide according to his intent. Only problem was whom the Nazis ended up considering to be the “pests”.
Fundamentally speaking, with or without descent an anti-Semite with Jewish heritage and one with Jewish heritage both have the same kind of hatred.
Bobby Fischer comes to mind.
The claim that Hitler was part Jewish is supposed to make the claim that Zelensky is a Nazi credible. That “logic” fails since Hitler was in fact literally a Nazi. Calling people Nazis has become so common that it has been rendered almost meaningless but Zelensky clearly is not a literal Nazi, nor is there any evidence that he’s anti-Semitic - the key Nazi characteristic. The Russian justification for their barbaric attack seems to rest on the idea that Ukraine is a Nazi country.
IMO, Israel knows the stories about Hitler’s Jewish ancestry but the holocaust has a certain narrative and history that has been written which was used to justify the creation of the State of Israel which they will fight to never change
Because if the justification for creating the State of Israel is deemed fraudulent then the entire State of Israel is fraudulent
Sober up dummy.
Or the Russians are trying to lure their enemies out to fight with them. People from outside Ukraine in America and Europe are lining up to join the Ukraine army as mercernaries. Russia could be using their own code to set up a death trap. I want to believe in the idea that Ukraine has slaughtered countless millions of Russians but the fog of war is real.
Hitler’s ancestry has no bearing on the Holocaust as a justification for the creation of the State of Israel. BTW, the Jewish people need no justification for living in their homeland. If anything, world recognition that the Jewish people needed a refuge from anti-Semites is not some kind of scheme to justify a Jewish state: its just a fact of history that became too horrific to deny any longer with the Nazi genocide.
Heritage makes no difference when it comes to an anti-Semite. A person who hates Jews is still a person who hates Jews regardless of their heritage.
His surgeon will do that soon enough, hopefully.
Ivan, unlike you perpetually drunk Russians, we aren’t still drunk in the morning.
No wonder you all suck at war, and, well everything. What a loser country.
They’ll sh#t themselves if they find out about Marx or Trotsky and if they saw a photo of Genrikh Yagoda they would need hospitalization.
Interestingly, soros literally said his parents hated Jews and Judaism.
He personally went to Yeshiva for a year or two and rejected G-d and Judaism. Said it was all bunk.
His first wife was the daughter of active Nazi party members.
Zyklon B was hydrogen cyanide absorbed onto diatomaceous earth. The technique for capturing cyanide in this way was developed by German chemists, notably Bruno Tesch, who was hanged after the war for his participation in the Holocaust.
The process for producing hydrogen cyanide was developed in 1930 by Leonid Andrussow, who was of Baltic German extraction. His synthesis used methane and ammonia.
The process for making ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen was developed by Haber in the early 20th Century.
Emil Maurice SS membership number 2. Reinhard Heydrich also had Jewish background. George Soros.
Yes Jews can be nazis. Then we need to trap about communists as well. Jewish mafia is also a thing. Like anyone else, they partake of evil.
Yes there are active Nazi gangs in Israel.
They’re from your mother Russia, comrade.
It will be nice to see Lavrov hanging from a noose.
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