When Russian President Vladimir Putin declared war on Ukraine last Thursday, he invoked ‘Nazism in Ukraine’ as justification – a claim which the rest of the world categorically rejects . Russian media has repeatedly sought to portray Ukraine as being aligned with Nazism and Putin has been making Nazi claims against Ukraine since at least 2014. Ukraine is a democratic country whose president, Volodymyr Zelensky, was elected in a free and fair election in which he amassed more than 70% of the vote. Zelensky is Jewish and lost family in the Holocaust. The country is far from a ‘Nazi state.’...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
