In an interview with NBC’s Megyn Kelly that was broadcast over the weekend, Russian President Vladimir Putin raised the possibility that “Jews” were the ones responsible for meddling in the 2016 US president election.

After being pressed by Kelly to comment on claims of Russian interference in the elections, Putin replied, “Maybe they’re not even Russians. Maybe they’re Ukrainians, Tatars, Jews, just with Russian citizenship. Even that needs to be checked.”

Putin must have known that a Russian president insinuating “Jews” were behind a plot to meddle in the US elections would smack of antisemitism. After all, The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion was a fabrication of the Czarist secret police.

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/putin-and-the-jews-544905

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KYIV, Ukraine—Hours after a Russian missile Tuesday struck the TV tower in Kyiv’s Babyn Yar area, the site of one of the worst massacres during the Holocaust, Vitali Senchenko phoned his cousin in Israel, trying to get his family out of the city.

“The Babyn Yar attack was the last straw,” Mr. Senchenko, a cyber defense expert, said Wednesday in the basement of a synagogue in Kyiv’s Podil area as he prepared to part with his wife Kateryna and their two children, aged two years old and one month. They were to leave on an evacuation convoy organized by the Jewish community.

Mr. Senchenko said he is remaining in Kyiv to apply his skills helping the city’s defense. “He is staying so that we could come back,” Kateryna said.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukrainian-jews-under-putins-bombs-seethe-at-his-attempt-to-smear-ukraine-as-neo-nazi-11646251687

As a former lieutenant colonel in the KGB, Putin is undoubtedly ruthless. But he is not known to be personally anti-Semitic. In fact, the opposite seems to be the case. At the International Assembly of Chabad Representatives in 2007, Russia’s Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Berel Lazar, often referred to as “Putin’s Rabbi”, told a remarkable story about the Russian leader, which he heard from Putin himself.

“When he was a young child, he grew up in a very poor family. His parents were always out at work. He was fortunate that the next-door neighbor was a Hasidic Jewish family, and they always made sure to invite him over,” Lazar explained. “They were extremely kind to him, and he realized that not only were they kind to a child that wasn’t theirs, not only were they kind to a child that wasn’t Jewish, but they were kind to a child in a time and place when it was dangerous to do that.”

“Thirty years later, because of the gratitude he felt for that family, and for the respect he felt for the Jewish people as a whole, as deputy mayor of the city of Leningrad, he granted official permission to open the first Jewish school in the city.”

https://www.israel365news.com/55179/how-russian-jews-helped-shape-life-worlds-most-powerful-leaders-jewish-world/