(May 6, 2022 / JNS) The Russian Foreign Ministry defended Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov this week against Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid in a diplomatic spat over comments by Lavrov when he said that “Adolf Hitler had Jewish blood.” Speaking to Italian news channel Zona Bianca , Lavrov had attempted to defend Russia’s portrayal of Ukraine as a Nazi state. When asked how a Nazi state could be headed by a Jewish president such as Volodymyr Zelensky, he responded: “So what if Zelensky is Jewish? Hitler had Jewish blood.” The Russian foreign minister also claimed that “the greatest anti-Semites were...