埼玉英語会英検１級・準１級　コミュのIsrael fury at Lavrov's Hitler 'part Jewish' claim

There's been a furious reaction in Israel after Russia's foreign minister said
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler "had Jewish blood".

Sergei Lavrov made the claim when trying to justify Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Asked in an Italian TV interview how Russia could portray Ukraine as
a Nazi country when Ukraine's own president is Jewish, Lavrov said that was
irrelevant.

"The fact does not negate the Nazi elements in Ukraine. I believe that Hitler also
had Jewish blood," he said.

His remarks play up an unproven historical claim that Hitler's paternal grandfather
might have been Jewish. Under Hitler, Nazi Germany murdered six million Jews in
the Holocaust.

Israel's foreign minister called Lavrov's statement "unforgiveable and outrageous...
as well as a terrible historical error", and he has demanded an apology.