Washington – An in-depth report by Senate Democratic staffers on Russian meddling in elections in the West includes several instances when the initiatives included alliances with anti-Semites.
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“The Congressional Research Service reports that many of the far-right European parties linked to the Kremlin are ‘anti-establishment and anti-EU, and they often share some combination of extreme nationalism; a commitment to ‘law and order’ and traditional family values; and anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, or anti-Islamic sentiments,’” said the 200-page report released Wednesday by the Democratic staff on the Foreign Relations Committee.
The report describes conferences across Europe for the far right as being sponsored by figures and organizations linked to the Kremlin, and notes that an official of Hungary’s anti-Semitic Jobbik Party was charged with spying for Russia. It also notes that the National Front in France, which has its roots in an anti-Semitic movement, took a loan from a Russian bank believed to have Kremlin ties.
Also noted in the report, which covers 20 years since Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rise to power, is at least one instance in which Kremlin-aligned actors charged rivals in Ukraine with associations with anti-Semites.
Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., who is Jewish and the top Democrat on the committee, said the report’s release is timely because he believes President Donald Trump is ignoring the threat to democratic institutions that the Russian president is sowing throughout the West, including the United States. Trump’s presidential campaign and transition team are under federal investigation into allegations of collusion with Russia.
“As the extent of Russia’s obvious meddling in the 2016 U.S. election continues to be investigated, it is imperative that the American people better understand the true scope and scale of Putin’s pattern of undermining democracy in Russia and across Europe,” Cardin said.
Trump has said his campaign never colluded with Russia and has called the investigation a hoax. He has counseled tamping down the adversarial U.S.-Russia relationship so the two nations can better cooperate in combating terrorism.
Putin has very good relations with Russian Jewry, as well as with Bibi Netanyahu, and Israel. In fact, several years ago, while visiting Israel, he met an old teacher of his from his high school days, who is living in Israel. When he found out that she was in financial circumstances, which were not great, he personally bought her a new apartment in Israel. Therefore, we should discard the ridiculous implications of that article. It reminds me of the same ridiculous allegations that the ADL and other so-called “Jewish” organizations were making about Trump for months, last year. Not one of those secular organizations ever apologized, especially when the Israelis arrested an Israeli teen, who was making the threats against JCC’s in the USA.
Putin has personally told Malcolm honelin very proudly that he supports Jews in his country . He exclaimed that by us bris Mila and shchita are not under attack .
I am very suspicious when they just lump anti Muslim with anti semites. Well yes if you believe in the secular fake lying form of Judaism who believes it’s more sacred to kiss and love Muslims then feel for our own
brothers whose blood those beasts love to cowardly spill , then yes you are an anti Semite . However true Torah Jews know that when a nation chepers our own brothers we are suppose to hate them and wish they hat Hashem make them suffer . And being anti Islam is being pro Jews !
“the secular fake lying form of Judaism who believes it’s more sacred to kiss and love Muslims then feel for our own brothers whose blood those beasts love to cowardly spill”
Man, are you over the top…chill out, and learn how to love your fellow Jews…most of whom, including most Israeli war dead and wounded, are among those you so outrageously dismiss as “Muslim kissers” – whatever that is supposed to mean.