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Russia’s fanning of anti-Israeli sentiment takes dark detour into Holocaust denialism

  • Written by Peter Rutland, Professor of Government, Wesleyan University
imagePeople wave Russian, Palestinian and Hamas flags.Hazem Bader/AFP via Getty Images)

The war in Gaza isn’t only challenging the geopolitics of the Middle East: It is also complicating matters in Ukraine, as Russia seeks to capitalize on growing anti-Israeli sentiment in the Global South.

Russia was slow to condemn the Oct. 7 attack in Israel and...

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