Outrage in Russia as Spassky puts name to rabidly anti-Semitic petition
By Bojan Pancevski
Boris Spassky, the former chess world champion, has caused uproar in Russia by signing a petition that demands the country’s state prosecutor bans a number of Jewish organisations.
Spassky was among 5,000 Russians who put their name to a letter calling for a ban on all religious and national groups acting on the principles of the Shulchan Aruch, a repository of Jewish law originally written in the 1560s.
The “Letter of 5,000”, sent three weeks ago, branded Judaism “anti-Christian and inhumane” and accused believers of “committing ritual murders”.
It warned of a “hidden campaign of genocide against the Russian people and their traditional society and values”, and was backed with quotes from anti-Semitic literature from the 19th century.
Re: Russians brand Judaism “anti-Christian and inhumane”
Wow and i thought russians only hated the muslims of the caucaus region!
comments from article :
Although this is the first time that Spassky has given vent to anti-Semitic feelings in public, Fischer - whose parents were, in fact, Jewish - has frequently exposed himself as a Holocaust denier and anti-Semite.
In an interview in 1999, he said that Jews were **“criminals, parasites, liars and thieves” and described America as a "farce controlled by dirty, hook-nosed, circumcised Jew *****s."
I think these guys should just say what they really feel and not beat around the bush
