Kosovo conflict - Jewish machinations?

On April 8, 2004, the Rossiya newspaper published an article by Yevgeny Sokolov entitled "War through PR", dedicated to the role of the media in covering contemporary local wars. The leitmotif of the article was the events in Kosovo over the past few years.

According to the author, the public opinion, which was negatively disposed towards the Serbs, was formed with the help of skillfully organized propaganda. In particular, a significant role in this was played by the American campaign Ruder Finn Global Public Affairs.

Without going into polemics about the theses expressed by the author, I would like to note that the article, filled with political accusations against the United States and understanding of the Kosovo conflict in ethnic and religious terms (which is natural in itself), quite unexpectedly includes the following passage: "The Jewish owners and employees of the Ruder Finn company, like many other American Jews, were well aware that during the Second World War, the Ustashe massacred tens of thousands of Jews and hundreds of thousands of Serbs in the Croatian camp Jasenovac. Nevertheless, the company managed to break the psychology American Jews and convince them that the current fascists are precisely the Serbs, although if you read the works of the then leader of the Croats Tudjman and the leader of the Muslims Izetbegovic, you can easily make sure that it was they who preached extremism . Neither before nor after this paragraph does the "Jewish theme" appear in the article, and political accusations against the United States are transformed into statements that, having destroyed Yugoslavia, America switched to Russia: The "Rose Revolution" in Georgia and the apparent desire to carry out a similar coup in Ukraine show that the plans to isolate Russia are in full swing and are accompanied by appropriate PR .

Why the author mentions in the text "the Jewish management of the company" (by the way, as he himself claims, "one of the 900 American companies and individuals engaged in lobbying in favor of foreign governments" ) and "American Jews" is not explained. It can be hoped that the author did not want to hint that the inciting of the war in and around Kosovo is a Jewish intrigue. But in any case, ethno-centric reasoning led the author to the assertion that it is reprehensible for Jews to act in politics on the side of the people, whose representatives exterminated Jews in the past. Then, probably, Jews in modern politics should not also support Germany or Ukraine, and if you look deeper into the history of Jewish pogroms, then many other countries.

Sources

• Sokolov Evgeny. War through PR // Russia. 2004. April 8.