Anti-Semitism Is on the Rise in Russia
and the Kremlin’s TV Network Is in on It

An offensive video on Russia Today is just the latest example
By: Julia Ioffe

Remember when Vladimir Putin said the provisional government in Kiev was brought to power by “nationalists, neo-Nazis, Russophobes and anti-Semites”? Remember how RT, or Russia Today, the Kremlin’s English-language propaganda outlet, actively advanced the fiction—and it is a fiction—that anti-Semitism is now running rampant in post-Yanukovych Ukraine? The stories about Odessa Jews being evacuated, of Ukrainian synagogues being attacked, the stories on the anti-Semitic statements of Ukrainian nationalists involved in the Maidan movement?

Well, the Simon Wiesenthal Center has demanded that Russia Today publicly apologize for a video that aired on its channel, which the Center said was “eight minutes of raw Jew-hatred and unambiguous group defamation.” The video, made by an Australian media company, purports to rap its way through the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in the process marshalling quite a few classic anti-Semitic stereotypes.

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