A Ukrainian parliamentarian has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of antisemitic tendencies and blamed the Kremlin for the deterioration of ties with Israel.
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"This deterioration is the direct result of Russia being responsible for many of the global threats that endanger Israel just like they endanger Ukraine," Sviatoslav Yurash told Israel Hayom.
"Individuals and representatives of the Russian regime, such as Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, encourage extremism in both actions and words and seek to legitimize Russia's cooperation with Hezbollah, the Taliban and the Iranian regime," he said. That is, with organizations and countries that openly seek the destruction of the state of Israel. Not to mention the war from hell that they continue to wage in Syria, the same hell that they have now brought to Ukraine."
Addressing the Jewish Agency crisis, Yurash said, "They fit in with the Russian ambition to win the support of the Arab world in the great war it has been waging on European soil since World War II." This will only exacerbate, and "as long as the Russians continue to desperately seek some kind of international affiliation with them, expect them to make many more antisemitic statements.
"The antisemitism of the Putin regime is not a new phenomenon at all. Just look at the effort of Russian authorities to dismantle the autonomous Jewish district right before they invaded Ukraine on February 24," he said, insisting that "as Russia's international isolation grows, so will antisemitism. They will again feel the need to look for the scapegoat, which will be the Jews, as has always been throughout Russian history."
Yurash represents the Servant of the People party in the Ukrainian parliament, to which he was elected in 2019. He is the country's youngest parliamentarian. Since the outbreak of the war, he has volunteered for the military at the front, from where he gave his interview to Israel Hayom.
"Benjamin Netanyahu was one of my inspirations for joining the military," he said.
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