Putin tells Europe's Jews to come to Russia to flee anti-Semitism
- 8 years ago
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday called on Jews who flee Western Europe due to anti-Semitic violence to move to Russia.
“Let them come to us.
In the Soviet Union they used to go away, now let them come back,” Putin said during a meeting with European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor and delegates from seven European Union member states, in which Kantor warned that Western Europe faces a “very real prospect of an exodus of Jews.”
“While Jews were once again a prominent target for global terror during 2015, the attacks in Paris, the US, and elsewhere, and the mass murder of Russians on an airline in the Sinai, show that the terrorists target us all,” Kantor said during the meeting, which was also attended by EJC delegates from France, Britain, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland and Latvia.
“Let them come to us.
In the Soviet Union they used to go away, now let them come back,” Putin said during a meeting with European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor and delegates from seven European Union member states, in which Kantor warned that Western Europe faces a “very real prospect of an exodus of Jews.”
“While Jews were once again a prominent target for global terror during 2015, the attacks in Paris, the US, and elsewhere, and the mass murder of Russians on an airline in the Sinai, show that the terrorists target us all,” Kantor said during the meeting, which was also attended by EJC delegates from France, Britain, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland and Latvia.