Vladimir Putin

Russians desperately search for Jewish roots to flee military conscription

As Vladimir Putin enforces a military call-up, Russian men have hunted through their family history to find any proof of Jewish roots to claim Israeli citizenship

By Ben Bloch

3 min read

Russians desperately search for Jewish roots to flee military conscription

Antisemitism

Nearly half of French Jews tell their children not to reveal religion in public

By Ben Bloch

2 min read

Russia

Get out now: Soviet refusenik Natan Sharansky’s warning to Russia’s Jews as crackdown fears grow

By Felix Pope

3 min read

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - MAY 06: Yesh Atid Party leader, Yair Lapid, speaks at a press conference on May 6, 2021 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin asked Lapid to form a new Israeli government after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fails to form a new government. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Russia

Jewish Agency: Israeli delegation finally allowed to fly to Russia to discuss crisis

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Russia

Kremlin moves to shut Moscow branch of Jewish Agency in ‘deplorable and offensive’ move

By Ben Bloch

1 min read

Russia

Putin apologises to Israeli PM for Lavrov’s claim that Hitler 'had Jewish blood'

By Ben Bloch

1 min read

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov gestures during a press conference following talks with his Italian counterpart in Moscow, on February 17, 2022. (Photo by SHAMIL ZHUMATOV / POOL / AFP) (Photo by SHAMIL ZHUMATOV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

By Colin Shindler

Lavrov's 'Hitler was a Jew' claim is part of the long history of Russian antisemitism

4 min read

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By The JC Leader

Butchers of Bucha must face justice

The JC Leader, 8 April 2022

1 min read

April 8, 2022 10:56

1946: Members of the Tribunal (left), preside over the Nuremberg war crimes Trials. From left to right are : Colonel A F Volchlov (Russia), General J T Nikitchenko (Russia), Lord Justice Norman Birkett (Britain), The President Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence (Britain), Hon. Francis A Biddle (USA), Hon. John Parker (USA), and M. Henri Donnedieu De Vabres (France). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

By Jonathan Freedland

Zelensky loves Israel and wants Israel to love Ukraine back

He visited Tel Aviv as a comedian and now he wants Ukraine to emulate the Jewish state. Volodomyr Zelensky desires Jerusalem as an unequivocal ally but what will Bennett do?

3 min read

April 7, 2022 13:16

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gestures as he speaks during a press conference in Kyiv on March 3, 2022. - Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the West on March 3, 2022, to increase military aid to Ukraine, saying Russia would advance on the rest of Europe otherwise. "If you do not have the power to close the skies, then give me planes!" Zelensky said at a press conference. "If we are no more then, God forbid, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia will be next," he said, adding: "Believe me." (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

The corpses and mass graves in Bucha tells the world the case against Putin at his Nuremberg will be overwhelming

An eyewitness account of the horrific evidence of Russian forces' war crimes in this satellite town of Kyiv

By John Sweeney

9 min read

April 7, 2022 09:42

BUCHA, UKRAINE - APRIL 04: (EDITORS NOTE: Image contains graphic content.) Bodies are seen inside a mass grave by a church on April 4, 2022 in Bucha, Ukraine. The Ukrainian government has accused Russian forces of committing a "deliberate massacre" as they occupied and eventually retreated from Bucha, 25km northwest of Kyiv. Dozens of bodies have been found in the days since Ukrainian forces regained control of the town. (Photo by Alexey Furman/Getty Images)

By David Baddiel

Putin’s Ukraine lies require the Shoah not to be about Jews

Nothing proves the ‘horse shoe theory’ of politics better than the way the Ukrainian president has been questioned by far right and far left on the basis of his background and identity

3 min read

March 24, 2022 12:46