So far, Israel has tried to maintain a difficult balance between Russia and Ukraine, but the situation could change dramatically.

On Tuesday, Moscow accused the Jewish state of “supporting the neo-Nazi regime in kyiv”.

This violent declaration drives the point home after the head of Russian diplomacy took up a smoky theory about the presumed "Jewish blood" of Adolf Hitler.

"We have paid attention to the anti-historic statements of [Israeli] Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, which largely explain the current government's decision to support the neo-Nazi regime in kyiv," Russian diplomacy said in a statement.

"History unfortunately knows tragic examples of cooperation between Jews and Nazis," the statement added.

“Scandalous” and “unforgivable” remarks

Ukrainian President Volodymyr “Zelensky makes this argument: how can Nazism be present [in Ukraine] if he himself is Jewish.

I could be wrong, but Hitler also had Jewish blood,” Sergei Lavrov launched on Sunday evening in an interview with Italian media.

Hitler's alleged "Jewish blood" is a theory treated with skepticism by historians.

"Minister Lavrov's remarks are at the same time scandalous, unforgivable and a horrible historical error", condemned his Israeli counterpart Yaïr Lapid on Monday, specifying that the Russian ambassador to Israel had been summoned for "clarifications".

The Jewish genocide used as a “political tool”

“No war is comparable to the Holocaust… The use of the Jewish genocide as a political tool must stop immediately,” denounced Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi for his part deemed Sergei Lavrov's remarks "aberrant" on Monday evening.

"And as for the part referring to Hitler, it's really obscene," he commented.

Moscow has repeatedly said that it wants to “demilitarize” and “denazify” Ukraine, thus justifying the invasion launched on February 24.

Parallel anti-Semitism and “Russophobia”

On Tuesday, Russian diplomacy echoed these arguments again, saying that “the Jewish origin of the president [Zelensky] is no guarantee of protection against the rampant neo-Nazism in the country.

Ukraine, by the way, is not the only one in this case”, also quoting Latvian President Egils Levits, who “also has Jewish roots and he also covers (…) the rehabilitation of the Waffen SS in his country ".

Moscow also accuses Jerusalem of "ignoring the epidemic of destruction and desecration of monuments to the true righteous of the world: the Red Army soldiers who stopped the Holocaust and saved the Jewish world", and seems to draw a parallel between anti-Semitism and "Russophobia" in Ukraine.

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