Michael O’Flaherty, director of agency for fundamental rights, says ‘dramatic moments in our societies trigger antisemitic responses’
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has spoken out after a mob in Russia’s Dagestan region stormed an airport in search of Jewish passengers arriving from Israel.
This is not an isolated incident in Makhachkala, but rather part of Russia’s widespread culture of hatred toward other nations, which is propagated by state television, pundits, and authorities.
The Russian foreign minister has made a series of antisemitic remarks in the last year. The Russian president also used antisemitic slurs. For Russian propaganda talking heads on official television, hate rhetoric is routine. Even the most recent Middle East escalation prompted antisemitic statements from Russian ideologists.
There is real fear amongst our Jewish communities worldwide about the rise of antisemitism.
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