President Feor Alexander Beard commented on an anti -Semitic report on Russia Today

President of the Federation of Jewish communities of Russia (Feor) Alexander Beard commented on an anti -Semitic report that appeared on the Russia Today television channel. The reason for him was the following.

On June 27, the television channel broadcast a report on the drought in Israel, the main messages of which were the allegations that a certain rabbi Shlomo Malmad "called on to poison the water coming to the cities and the villages of the Palestinians" and that other Israelis are picked up water from the Palestinians, depriving them of harvesting.

Meanwhile, the Israeli media that conducted their investigation found that there is no Malmad’s rabbis at all, the Feor press service said.

The Blagovers-Info agency published on Thursday the text of the commentary of Alexander Borod.

"It is amazing that the modern Russian television channel makes such plots: such accusations against Jews were usually distributed in the Middle Ages. They were a product of the sick fantasy of the then anti -Semites or the result of torture of Jewish leaders, when a person is ready to sign anything to stop pain. At the same time, we are talking about the already refuted fake - earlier with accusations of pools addressed the Jews against the Jews. Abu Mazen Palestinian autonomy, ”said President Feor.

"Even this politician known by his anti -Semitism was forced to apologize in two days and admit that he was lied. I want to draw the attention of the public and the leadership of the television channel to the fact that, unfortunately, this report is not an annoying exception, but rather the rule. The Russia Today TV channel regularly appears about allegedly having a pursuit of the Arabs from Jews, destruction, destruction The houses (at the same time are silent that we are talking about the houses of terrorists who kill civilians), the murders of the children.

"We do not oppose the criticism of Israel (Israel, like any normal state, can perform erroneous actions), but against its demonization based on anti -Semitic fantasies. Such publications are an extremely dangerous thing, since they affirm the image of Jews in the eyes of their spectators as people who do not stop at any atrocity against non -Jews and contribute to the growth of anti -Semitism. Such publications. It is also extremely harmful to Russia, since each such report becomes a contribution to the piggy bank of its opponents, stating that the situation in the field of minority rights and attitudes towards them in the country has changed for the worse, ”President Feor concluded his comment.