President Putin says "godless" Joos are attacking and tearing apart the Russian Orthodox Church

“President Putin says "godless" Joos are attacking and tearing apart the Russian Orthodox Church

“These are people without any beliefs, Godless people. They're ethnic Jews, but has anyone seen them in a synagogue? I don't think so. They're not Orthodox as well because they're never present at church and for sure they don't follow Islam because we don't see them at the mosque."

According to Times of Israel:

Comments made during press conference echo Soviet-era antisemitism under Stalin, when the Kremlin persecuted Jews and accused them of being 'rootless cosmopolitans'

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, the president of the Conference of European Rabbis, warned that Putin’s characterization of Jews in this way could have dangerous consequences.”