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Get out now: Soviet refusenik Natan Sharansky’s warning to Russia’s Jews as crackdown fears grow

The ex-dissident, who spent nine years in Soviet prisons, issued the bleak warning amid an escalation of President Vladimir Putin’s repression of the Jewish Agency

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Get out now: Soviet refusenik Natan Sharansky’s warning to Russia’s Jews as crackdown fears grow

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - MAY 06: Yesh Atid Party leader, Yair Lapid, speaks at a press conference on May 6, 2021 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin asked Lapid to form a new Israeli government after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fails to form a new government. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Jewish Agency: Israeli delegation finally allowed to fly to Russia to discuss crisis

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) speaks with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during their meeting, in Sochi, on October 22, 2021. (Photo by Yevgeny BIYATOV / Sputnik / AFP) (Photo by YEVGENY BIYATOV/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

Kremlin moves to shut Moscow branch of Jewish Agency in ‘deplorable and offensive’ move

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a joint press conference with International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President following their talks in Moscow on March 24, 2022. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / POOL / AFP) (Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Putin apologises to Israeli PM for Lavrov’s claim that Hitler 'had Jewish blood'

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov gestures during a press conference following talks with his Italian counterpart in Moscow, on February 17, 2022. (Photo by SHAMIL ZHUMATOV / POOL / AFP) (Photo by SHAMIL ZHUMATOV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Colin Shindler

By Colin Shindler

Lavrov's 'Hitler was a Jew' claim is part of the long history of Russian antisemitism

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1946: Members of the Tribunal (left), preside over the Nuremberg war crimes Trials. From left to right are : Colonel A F Volchlov (Russia), General J T Nikitchenko (Russia), Lord Justice Norman Birkett (Britain), The President Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence (Britain), Hon. Francis A Biddle (USA), Hon. John Parker (USA), and M. Henri Donnedieu De Vabres (France). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The JC Leader

By The JC Leader

Butchers of Bucha must face justice

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gestures as he speaks during a press conference in Kyiv on March 3, 2022. - Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the West on March 3, 2022, to increase military aid to Ukraine, saying Russia would advance on the rest of Europe otherwise. "If you do not have the power to close the skies, then give me planes!" Zelensky said at a press conference. "If we are no more then, God forbid, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia will be next," he said, adding: "Believe me." (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

Jonathan Freedland

By Jonathan Freedland

Zelensky loves Israel and wants Israel to love Ukraine back

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The corpses and mass graves in Bucha tells the world the case against Putin at his Nuremberg will be overwhelming

An eyewitness account of the horrific evidence of Russian forces' war crimes in this satellite town of Kyiv

By John Sweeney

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April 7, 2022 09:42

BUCHA, UKRAINE - APRIL 04: (EDITORS NOTE: Image contains graphic content.) Bodies are seen inside a mass grave by a church on April 4, 2022 in Bucha, Ukraine. The Ukrainian government has accused Russian forces of committing a "deliberate massacre" as they occupied and eventually retreated from Bucha, 25km northwest of Kyiv. Dozens of bodies have been found in the days since Ukrainian forces regained control of the town. (Photo by Alexey Furman/Getty Images)

David Baddiel

By David Baddiel

Putin’s Ukraine lies require the Shoah not to be about Jews

Nothing proves the ‘horse shoe theory’ of politics better than the way the Ukrainian president has been questioned by far right and far left on the basis of his background and identity

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March 24, 2022 12:46

Middlesbrough fans pose for a photograph wearing Volodymyr Zelensky masks ahead of the English FA cup quarter-final football match between Middlesbrough and Chelsea at the Riverside Stadium in Middlesbrough, north-east England on March 19, 2022. - - RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. (Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Alex Hearn

Aleksandr Dugin: The sinister ideologue who's Putin's favourite philosopher

Dugin’s death cult seeks the total destruction of his opponents

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March 11, 2022 13:53

Aleksandr Dugin: The sinister ideologue who's Putin's favourite philosopher

Tim Marshall

By Tim Marshall

Ukraine’s resistance will slowly bleed Putin dry

Russia has technology and a huge army but the Ukrainians have resisted occupation before

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March 4, 2022 15:59

TOPSHOT - Members of an Ukrainian civil defense unit pass new assault rifles to the opposite side of a blown up bridge on Kyivs northern front on March 1, 2022. - Satellite photos showed on March 1, 2022, a Russian convoy stretching for dozens of kilometers and advancing slowly toward the Ukrainian capital : according to the Ukrainian general staff, Moscow is gathering its forces for an assault on Kiev and other major cities while international retaliatory measures against Russia continued to accumulate. (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS / AFP) (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Russia will compete in Maccabiah games despite Paralympics ban

The tournament will be held in Israel next year

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March 4, 2022 15:06

General view of the opening ceremony of the 16th Maccabiah games, or Jewish Olympics, at Jerusalem's Teddy Stadium 16 July 2001. Two Palestinians were killed earlier in the day while preparing a bomb near the stadium, with Israel on alert for attacks as latest diplomatic steps to halt the bloodshed failed to make headway. AFP PHOTO/Menahem KAHANA (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP) (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)

Anshel Pfeffer

By Anshel Pfeffer

Israel’s high-wire balancing act over Russia could end in a nasty fall

There’s no doubt that Israel’s public supports the Ukrainians, but the government has been more reserved

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March 4, 2022 14:57

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during their meeting, in Sochi, on October 22 2021. (Photo by Yevgeny BIYATOV / Sputnik / AFP) (Photo by YEVGENY BIYATOV/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

Dominic Green

By Dominic Green

Now more than ever, it's time to ask 'what would Kissinger do?'

Kissinger would seek to talk with Putin and his ministers directly says Dominic Green

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March 4, 2022 14:34

A picture taken on January 20, 2012, shows Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (R) shaking hands with visiting former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, during their meeting in Moscow. AFP PHOTO/ RIA-NOVOSTI POOL/ ALEXEY DRUZHININ (Photo credit should read ALEXEY DRUZHININ/AFP via Getty Images)

Tom Tugendhat MP

By Tom Tugendhat MP

Kick Putin’s princes of darkness out of London

As the Ukranians fight for their country, we must take steps at home to clean out corruption

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March 3, 2022 10:26

Passers-by take pictures of cardboard cutouts depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin (L), Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoysky (C), presidential candidates Volodymyr Zelensky (R), Yulia Tymoshenko (2R) and Oleksander Shevchenko (2L) during a protest themed 'Down with the fifth column of Ukrainian policy' in the center of Kiev on March 29, 2019, displaying the pro-Russian candidates ahead of the first round of the presidential election on March 31. (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP) (Photo credit should read SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

Laura Janner Klausner

By Laura Janner Klausner

Jewish history tells us that bullies falsify and distort - Putin is just the latest

The far right has far less support in Ukraine than in Russia and much of Western Europe

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March 2, 2022 11:15

Jewish history tells us that bullies falsify and distort - Putin is just the latest

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