Dame Melinda Simmons, who has served as the British Ambassador to Ukraine since 2019, appeared on the most recent episode of Podcast Against Antisemitism where she spoke on Russian President
The Russian Government has declared one of the country’s Chief Rabbis as a “foreign agent” after he criticised Russia’s war on Ukraine and spoke of his fears of rising antisemitism. Rabbi Pinchas
Over one in eight Jewish Russians have emigrated since the country invaded Ukraine, according to the Jewish Agency, which facilitates Jewish immigration to Israel. The sizeable migration has elicited a crackdown by the Russian
The bestselling author, Stephen King, has come under fire for appearing to praise the antisemitic Second World War-era Ukrainian nationalist leader and Nazi collaborator, Stepan Bandera, who played a key
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland has accused Russia of posting images of the Nazi death camp for propaganda purposes. Museum authorities have argued that a Russian agency has used
The Russian Foreign Ministry has doubled down on Sergei Lavrov’s grotesque claim that Hitler had Jewish origins by accusing Jews of collaborating with Nazis and inviting antisemitic genocidal terrorists to a meeting
The Russian Foreign Minister has claimed that Hitler had “Jewish origins” in his latest insulting attempt to justify his country’s invasion of Ukraine. Sergei Lavrov made the false assertion, which is based
The global governing body behind the international motor sport, The Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), has launched an investigation after the winner of a karting race appeared to make a
A pig’s head and an antisemitic epithet were reportedly left outside the Moscow apartment of a respected Russian journalist. Alexei Venediktov, the Editor of the Echo of Moscow radio station,
The Russian war on Ukraine has elicited a plethora of Nazi comparisons and is witnessing actual neo-Nazi soldiers on the battlefield. The war has also divided opinion within the far-right
VK, a Russian social media platform with an active user base of at least 60 million, is reportedly rife with antisemitism, online watchdog Fighting Online Antisemitism has said. Some examples
Undercover police in Russia have arrested two members of a Soviet nostalgia group after an elaborate “sting” that involved faking the murder of a rabbi, it was revealed over the
A lecturer on international relations at a prestigious Moscow university denied that Nazi gas chambers were used to kill people and said that six million dead Jews was “a fiction”.
Prosecutors in Russia have launched an investigation into a circus performance that featured a monkey clothed in a Nazi uniform and two goats dressed in blankets embellished with swastikas. It
Police have detained a drunken attacker who shouted antisemitic slogans and caused damage to a Jewish centre in Moscow. After local community leaders expressed concern at the attack in the
