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Ukraine War Triggers Antisemitism in Russia
(JTA) Cnaan Liphshiz - As Russia's war effort in Ukraine founders, openly anti-Jewish rhetoric is entering its mainstream media. In July, Vladimir Solovyov, a popular talk show host, listed on air the names of Jews whom he faulted for lacking patriotism. On Sep. 18, senior writer Dmitry Popov published a list of well-known Jews whom he called "foreign agents" in the Russian daily Moskovskij Komsomolets. Roman Bronfman, a former Israeli lawmaker, said, "The antisemitic rhetoric we're seeing now, the loosening of the taboo around it, are probably not directed directly by Putin's government....These are matters of a general atmosphere. Officials and the general population are reading between the lines on how they should treat the Jews. And the message is changing."