Putin calls for Jews to emigrate to Russia

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited Jews to emigrate to Russia amid an increase in anti-Semitic violence in Europe. At a meeting between Putin and members of the European Jewish Congress (EJC) in the Kremlin, Putin was told that discrimination suffered by Jews in Europe was worse than at any time since World War II.

 

“The position of Jews in Europe today is the worst since the end of World War II. Jews [are] gripped by fear and there is a very real new exodus of Jews from Europe,” EJC President Vyasechlav Moshe Kantor told Putin, Russia Today reported.

 

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