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Emil Kirkegaard: Somalis in the USA: also not a success; on the other hand, they become American citizens are breakneck speed

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Emil Kirkegaard’s blog on the Somali immigrants to the U.S. is a welcome counterweight to Niall Ferguson’s (Ferguson has a Somali wife) enthusiasm for African immigration and lack of concern for race differences in traits like IQ that predict success in Western societies.

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Anyway, what I wanted to write about today is America’s growing Muslim program. Although America doesn’t really need to deliberately import low skill migrants to offset their aging population, they have decided to do so anyway. In particular, let’s look at Somalis. The national IQ of Somalia is about 68, and the population is about 100% Muslim. Since low IQ and Islam are the best predictors of immigrants performing poorly in Western countries, let’s look at whether America has been able to work some kind of magic. First, the numbers:

Somalis are curiously concentrated in 3 states, and about 40% of them live in Minnesota alone, so that’s likely where the best social statistics can be found. As a comparison, here’s the overall economic contribution of Somalis to the Danish economy, as estimated by the Danish government in 2023:

Somalia is the worst performing group covered. Previously, the new arrivals from ‘Syria’ did worse, but they have been improving a bit as they learned how to live in Denmark. The average Somali costs the Danish government, and thus taxpayer, about 130k DKK per year, or about 18k USD per year. The lifetime cost is not calculated, but if they live about 75 years on average, it would be about 1.4 million USD per person (the calculation is more complicated in real life because the numbers above are not age corrected, but cover the population as it is today).

Has America been able to work any magic? A glance at newspapers suggest this is not the case:

Granted, this is a 2009 article, but we can also find a Wikipedia page about Somali gangs in USA, and various government agencies have pages about the problems with Somalis. However, these are not hard numbers. Can we do better? Yes, I was able to find this article about sub-Saharan Africans in USA. Highlights:

  • “Meanwhile, Somalis had the lowest levels of educational attainment, with 14 percent holding a bachelor’s degree or higher.”
  • “while Somali-headed households had the lowest median incomes ($32,000).”
  • “or major origin groups, poverty rates were highest among Somalis (37 percent)”
  • “Immigrants from Somalia (68 percent) and Ethiopia (65 percent) had the highest rates of naturalization”
  • “South Africans had the lowest rate of being uninsured (8 percent) while Nigerians and Somalis had the highest rates (20 percent and 18 percent, respectively).”
  • “Remittances accounted for 35 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) of Somalia”

So, in other words, Somalis are the worst educated, lowest income, had the highest rate of poverty and being uninsured, and Somalia’s economy runs on migrants sending welfare money back. Finally, they are very eager to gain US citizenship, gaining it at the highest rates. Not mentioned here is that they also reproduce fast:

Their fertility rate was a staggering 5.2 children per woman, only beaten by the literal Amish and ultra-orthodox Jews.

Just as a comparison for the income number (household median), they are poorer than every other group listed on Wikipedia:

Native African Americans have a household income of 48,297, so Somali households are still 34% lower.

Given all of these findings, it is no surprise that local politician Tim Walz is keen on importing more of them as part of “strong moral tradition”.

Requiem for the Duke University Fake Rape

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Coulter emphasizes the anti-White aspect of the episode. Most conservatives won’t go there.

Requiem for the Duke University Fake Rape and the stripper who made a fool of The New York Times [and the Duke U. administration and faculty]

It was nice to see Crystal Mangum, victim of the nonexistent gang rape by Duke lacrosse players in 2006, admit last week that it was all a fake-out. Many of you were happy, though bored, and moved on. But cruel people like me aren’t ready to move on.

The Duke lacrosse case was the ne plus ultra of the media’s anti-White hate. Lacrosse is the oldest team sport in America (apart from scalping and human sacrifice) now played by mostly White, preppie, upper-middle-class kids. So when Mangum claimed she’d been gang-raped, beaten, kicked and strangled by members of the Duke lacrosse team after being hired as a stripper, the media thought it was Christmas Day.

In lieu of reporting, news reports were bristling with references to “frat boys,” “entitled,” someone’s “daddy,” “white male privilege,” “the patriarchy” and — of course — “slave masters.” (“The tangled American opera of race, sex and privilege” -— in the deathless prose of New York Times reporter Duff Wilson.)

Mangum’s credibility was not exactly bulletproof. A year earlier, she’d been hospitalized for psychiatric problems; she was on antidepressants, in addition to having a serious drinking problem; and she once pleaded guilty after trying to run over a police officer with a taxicab she’d just stolen. This also wasn’t the first time she’d claimed to have been gang-raped by three men. Even her father said the previous allegation was false.

Moreover, her claims about the lacrosse players were really a kaleidoscope of stories. First, she insisted she hadn’t been raped at all, and then she said she’d been raped, but the number of rapists kept changing (20, five, four, three or two, before she finally settled on three), as did the number of orifices that had been raped.

None of the doctors and nurses who examined Mangum found any physical evidence that she’d been raped, much less violently gang-raped in a small bathroom. Even when given an absurd and unconstitutional photo “lineup” of only team members (no wrong answers!), her description of the rapists was so at variance with the actual players that some speculate she was trying to hit the eject button on the whole case. But District Attorney Mike Nifong wouldn’t let her.

After a year of Nifong torturing the “suspects” (with the enthusiastic cooperation of Duke University) — putting them in handcuffs for the cameras, lying about their cooperation, hiding the DNA evidence clearing them — then-North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper took over the case, dismissed all charges, and took the highly unusual step of declaring the players, “innocent.” DA Nifong was removed, disbarred and jailed.

Why would any prosecutor so maniacally pursue trumped up charges, in open defiance of the evidence? It seems that Nifong was up for reelection and was trying to impress his Black constituents. As Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson put it in their excellent book on the case, “Until Proven Innocent“: “Black leaders and voters made it clear that his only chance of winning the primary was … by indicting lacrosse players for a rape that he must have known they did not commit.”

I note at this juncture that there is no jurisdiction in the country where a prosecutor could impress White constituents by railroading innocent Black men.

In a surprise development, The New York Times reported the case honestly at first, with Joe Drape talking to both sides, the prosecution AND the defense. Unfortunately, any actual reporting inevitably cast doubt on the state’s case. So Drape was promptly yanked off the story, and it was handed to writers who could be counted on to talk only to Nifong.

Times sportswriter Selena Roberts wrote an entire column premised on Nifong’s easily disproved claim that the athletes had refused to cooperate. In her first column on the case on March 31, 2006, Roberts wrote: “Players have been forced to give up their DNA, but to the dismay of investigators, none have come forward to reveal an eyewitness account.”

In fact, the accused immediately gave statements to the police of their own free will — without counsel present — and eagerly provided their DNA, blood and saliva samples, knowing it would prove them innocent (which it did … to no effect).

The Times had to issue a correction to Roberts’ claim.

But Roberts burbled on, comparing the lacrosse team to “drug dealers and gang members engaged in an anti-snitch campaign,” accusing them of being “roped off from the norms of decent behavior,” and abiding by “the Vegas rule of ‘what goes on here, stays here.'”

Appalled by the players’ supposed lack of cooperation, Roberts turned, naturally, to a women’s study professor, Katie Gentile at John Jay College. Based on her extensive research, Gentile explained to Times readers that, for male athletes, “your self-esteem is more valuable to you than someone else’s life.”

Someone else’s life?

The only lives that were nearly destroyed here were those of the accused lacrosse players. Give me any reason why — it doesn’t even have to be true, just a reason — other than that they were White men.

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“Christmas Market Attack Suspect Was a Saudi Arabian ‘Leftist’ Asylum Activist Promoted by BBC”

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The lesson seems to be that even anti-Islam activists should not be allowed into Europe.

Breitbart: “Christmas Market Attack Suspect Was a Saudi Arabian ‘Leftist’ Asylum Activist Promoted by BBC”

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According to reports, the Saudi Arabian man arrived in Germany in 2006 after allegedly fleeing his homeland for fear of persecution for being an atheist. He was granted asylum in Germany in 2016 and had been living in the town of Bernburg — near Magdeburg — where he worked as a psychiatrist.

After moving to Germany, the suspect reportedly established a service to assist other asylum seekers move to Germany. For this work, he was profiled in “several media outlets from FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) to BBC to promote his mission for human rights in Saudi Arabia,” Welt reports.

The BBC noted in 2019 that he focussed on helping ex-Muslims flee from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region, with a particular focus on women.

In an interview with FAZ during the same year, Taleb proclaimed that he was “the most aggressive critic of Islam in history,” claiming that he was ostracized from the Muslim community in Germany over his atheism. In the article he also detailed his move to become a pro-asylum seeker activist in Germany.

An editor’s note attached to the article following him being identified as the suspected Magdeburg attacker, FAZ wrote: “This interview with Taleb Al A. was published in June 2019. Entries of the alleged assassin in the social media indicate that he has also been increasingly quarreling with Germany and its migration policy over the five and a half years since then. There are also signs of persecution delusions. Nothing of this was felt in 2019. Here is the unchanged wording of the conversation.”

Since then, Taleb A became increasingly critical of the German government and its migration agenda, accusing Berlin of promoting the “Islamization” of Europe. He appears to have been particularly angered over the acceptance rate of “Syrian jihadists” compared to ex-Muslims from Saudi Arabia.

While much media attention in the wake of the attack has focussed on statements Taleb made in support of the populist right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party over its critiques of Islamic immigration, he apparently considered himself to be a leftist.

“Taleb A. said in the interview that he was not a right-winger and described himself as a leftist,” Der Spiegel reports.

The German news magazine also reports that Berlin security agencies received three warnings from Saudi Arabia about the suspect. They were also warned following a 2023 post vowing “revenge” against Germany for supposed persecution of Saudi Arabian refugees and that the country would pay a “price”. However, officials allegedly dismissed the statements and reportedly did not consider him to be a threat as a potential extremist.

In another post in 2024 reported by Welt, he is claimed to have said: “I assure you: If Germany wants war, we will have it. If Germany wants to kill us, we will slaughter them, die or proudly go to prison. Because we have exhausted all peaceful means, we have only encountered more crimes from the police, the state security service, the public prosecutor’s office, the judiciary and the Ministry of the Interior. Peace is of no use to them.”

There are increasing suggestions that the suspect may have suffered from some form of mental illness, with German media describing his posts online as having been “confused”.

According to the BILD newspaper, a saliva drug test taken after the attack indicated that the suspect may have been intoxicated at the time of the attack. While it is currently unclear what drug he may have been on, the paper notes that the test scans for seven different drugs, including amphetamines, benzodiazepines, cannabis, cocaine, opiates, cocaine, and methamphetamines (MDMA, ecstasy).

Free Expression Foundation 2024 Year End Summary and Fundraising Appeal

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We The People

FEF Is a very worthy foundation. Imagine being prosecuted or sued by deep-pocketed governments or well-funded organizations. Competent representation is often key. And Glen is grooming young lawyers who will similarly be willing to carry on such work in the future.

By Glen Allen Esq., FEF President

2024 was an exciting and productive year for the Free Expression Foundation.  With your continued support, FEF  will continue this momentum into 2025 and beyond.

During 2024, FEF accomplished the following:

  • Through attorneys that FEF obtained and in many cases paid for, FEF litigated five cases (trial courts and courts of appeal) in four jurisdictions (Idaho, Virginia, Washington State, and the District of Columbia) on behalf of a total of 16 dissidents. Three of these cases will continue into 2025.  All of the cases presented important issues of freedom of speech and assembly.  Although the two cases that have been resolved (Idaho and one of the Virginia cases) did not result in complete victories, the results were nonetheless beneficial to the dissident parties and, above all, sent a defiant message that the dissidents would not surrender their First Amendment rights without a legal fight.
  • FEF employed (part-time) two young lawyers and mentored two law students, who have expressed their intention to work for FEF in the future.
  • FEF gave out approximately $5,000 in grants to persons of limited means who had been harmed as a result of exercising their rights of free expression and assembly.
  • Glen Allen gave several speeches to sympathetic groups promoting FEF.
  • Glen Allen gave several interviews to newspapers and magazines promoting FEF.
  • FEF responded to numerous email and telephone inquiries from persons seeking advice and legal counsel for issues relating to their First Amendment activities.
  • FEF continued to expand FEF’s network of sympathetic attorneys and potential local counsel.

Looking forward, in 2025 FEF’s plans include:

  • Continue litigating the three pending cases mentioned above, namely, the case in Washington State (Patriot Front members are plaintiffs against an Antifa infiltrator), Virginia (filing a petition for certiorari to the United States Supreme Court on behalf of a Charlottesville Unite the Right demonstrator), and the District of Columbia (defending a Proud Boy who marched at a pro-Trump rally).
  • File amicus briefs and otherwise vigorously defend First Amendment issues in the Charlottesville Tiki-Torch prosecutions now pending in Virginia.
  • Continue to mentor and employ fledgling lawyers.
  • Continue to mentor and financially support promising law students.
  • Potential new lawsuit in Georgia to protect pamphlet distributors.
  • Continue to expand network of sympathetic lawyers.
  • Continue to promote FEF through speeches and media interviews.
  • Launch possible monthly or semi-monthly FEF podcasts.

In closing, I would make a few comments. Freedom of expression has been defended on many different grounds.  Some see it as necessary for the proper functioning of a democracy;  some believe it derives from our religious and political faith in the sanctity of the individual, who must be given space even for mistakes;  some see it as a safety valve that our quarrelsome species needs to vent our unending frustrations and animosities.  Perhaps freedom of expression is all these things at the same time.  But to me, and I believe also to you who have supported FEF, one thing is clear:  without freedom of expression life is uncreative, ignoble, and  hardly worth living.  And so we must all do our parts to protect and maintain it, so that we may hope to build the best versions of ourselves and our future generations.

Thank you for your support in 2024.  FEF needs and will appreciate your continued support in 2025 and beyond, as we head into what I think will be a very turbulent period in our nation’s history.  As always, I assure you that your donations, which are tax deductible, will be used honestly and efficiently.

My best to you all!
Glen Allen

Jared Taylor: My Whitest Christmas Ever

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Jared Taylor, American Renaissance, December 20, 2024

Even without snow.


This video is available on Rumble, BitChute, Odysee, and X.

There’s been no snow, but this has already been my whitest Christmas ever.

I just attended the annual Christmas party of a group that is doing exactly what racially conscious white people should be doing: building communities.

It’s a group based in a sizable urban area that meets regularly for companionship and support, but it’s more than that. Once a group gets big enough – and this one has – it has subgroups of people with different interests. The young men like to go hiking or camping together, work out, and practice martial arts. Women have interest groups, and families with children get together for homeschooling, museum visits, and fun outdoors.

The group has members who are local elected officials or who work for government at various levels. This has a lot of promise as a way to push public policy our way.

Members who run companies hire members who need jobs. People with special skills hire and help each other. Some members do public-facing white activism. And everyone celebrates marriages and the births of babies. Everyone understands that families and children are what matter most.

Events like the Christmas party get the most attendance. This year, 120 people gathered for a great buffet-style meal and wonderful conversations, serenaded by the happy sounds of children of all ages. Several excellent speakers gave both inspirational and practical messages. It was a great honor to attend and give a talk, and I was unstinting in my praise for what these men and women are doing.

The party started early so families could get children home by bedtime, but my wife and I joined the younger folks for a lively afterparty, where a talented member played a Beethoven piano sonata from memory.

How do they run such a successful group? First, it has no legal entity that could be tracked or traced. It is strictly a group of friends, organized by volunteers. Selection and vetting are a top concern. Members must be racially aware, have something to contribute, and be pleasant to be around – what the British call “clubbable.” As a member involved in selection told me, keeping out eccentrics and spergs is more of a problem than stopping infiltrators.

But an infiltrator couldn’t do much damage. Everyone uses a pseudonym – even people who, themselves, can’t be damaged by doxing. Members make their own decisions about when or whether to invite other members into their homes.

One of the great advantages of this group is that it has no ideology or orientation other than the celebration of our people. Many members are Christians; many are not. Some are activists; others are veterans of former activist organizations. The group – which makes a point of not even having a name or official titles for the volunteers who run it – is a home and refuge for all good people who love our race.

As I said before, I think this is exactly what white people should be doing now, and I think the best thing it does is give white children a community to grow up in that honors them and cherishes them, that tells them that they are the newest generation of a people with a magnificent past and a glowing future.

As I said at the conclusion of my talk:

May you celebrate many, many more Christmases to come. May you prosper; may you grow. And may you be an inspiration to people all across America who love our heritage and are determined to hold their destiny in their own hands. Because we have the right to be us, and only we can be us.

Merry Christmas to all of you.

About Jared Taylor

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Jared Taylor is the editor of American Renaissance and the author of Paved With Good Intentions, White Identity, and If We Do Nothing.

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Elon Musk Endorses “far-right” AFD, “a group with ties to neo-Nazis whose youth wing has been classified as “confirmed extremist” by German domestic intelligence.”

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The New York Times freaking out about Musk supporting the AFD.

Related: Driver Rams Christmas Market in Germany, Killing at Least 2 in Suspected Attack

Video showed a car plowing into a large crowd in the city of Magdeburg. The driver, identified as a 50-year-old Saudi Arabian citizen who worked as a doctor, was arrested. [Working on a motive.]

“Musk Expresses Support for Far-Right Party in Germany’s Election” – The New York Times

It was not the first online intervention by Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and adviser to Donald Trump, on behalf of once-fringe anti-immigrant parties in Europe.

lon Musk, the world’s richest man and a close adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, on Friday endorsed Germany’s far-right party, a group with ties to neo-Nazis whose youth wing has been classified as “confirmed extremist” by German domestic intelligence.

“Only the AfD can save Germany,” Mr. Musk posted to X, referring to the anti-immigrant party, the Alternative for Germany, by its German initials.

In doing so, he is wading into German politics at a moment of turmoil, and at the very same time that he has wielded his influence in Washington to help blow up a bipartisan spending deal that was meant to avoid a government shutdown over Christmas. The German government recently collapsed, leading to early elections planned for next year.

Mr. Musk’s post was in response to an English-language video by a 24-year-old German far-right influencer, Naomi Seibt. She harshly criticized Friedrich Merz, whom polls show leading the race, for dismissing a rival’s suggestion that Germany look to Mr. Musk and another firebrand, President Javier Milei of Argentina, for ideas about reforming the country.

Ms. Seibt also criticized Mr. Merz for ruling out joining any coalition with the AfD. The ethnonationalist and Islamophobic message of the once-fringe party has proved to be a strong vote-getter at the local level, especially in the more economically disadvantaged former East Germany.

Mr. Musk’s post, which had more than 25 million views in roughly 10 hours, comes as Germany begins what promises to be an aggressive election campaign. The country will have an early election on Feb. 23 after Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party coalition collapsed in November.

Like all the mainstream German parties, Mr. Merz’s center-right Christian Democratic Union has ruled out working with the AfD, which Mr. Scholz and others have called a threat to German democracy.

News that members of the AfD attended a secret meeting with the Austrian extreme-right provocateur Martin Sellner, who has admitted to once being a member of a neo-Nazi group and has called for deporting migrants en masse, led to large protests early this year. Then, starting in May, a leading light of the party was twice given a hefty fine for using Nazi-era slogans during campaign stops.

Last month in the eastern state of Saxony, police arrested eight people suspected of being members of what they called a right-wing extremist terrorist organization, which they said had been plotting to overthrow the government. Three of the eight were AfD members; one was an elected local official.

The online endorsement from Mr. Musk garnered a quick response from Alice Weidel, the AfD’s top candidate. “Yes! You are perfectly right,” she posted just an hour after Mr. Musk’s post went up.

Mr. Musk has long made heavy use of X, which he bought in 2022, to express his views on politics in the United States and abroad.

In Britain, he has thrown his weight behind another insurgent, anti-immigrant party, Reform U.K., which is led by the longtime political disrupter Nigel Farage. He met on Monday with Mr. Farage and the party’s new treasurer, Nick Candy, at Mr. Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, to discuss the possibility of a donation by Mr. Musk to Reform U.K.

Mr. Musk has yet to write Mr. Farage a check, and lawmakers in Britain are calling on the government to tighten campaign-finance laws to restrict foreign donations. But he has left little doubt of his endorsement.

When Mr. Farage posted a photo of himself with Mr. Candy and Mr. Musk posing in front of a portrait of a younger Mr. Trump, along with the line “Britain needs Reform,” Mr. Musk replied, “Absolutely.”

He also has picked repeated fights online with Britain’s Labour government, accusing it of using police-state tactics in going after people who used his X platform to spread misinformation after anti-immigrant riots broke out across Britain last summer, following a mass stabbing at a dance studio.

Mr. Musk claimed that “civil war” was inevitable in Britain. After Prime Minister Keir Starmer activated an emergency plan to relieve pressure on overcrowded jails, under which defendants can be held longer in cells until space opens in prisons, Mr. Musk posted, “The U.K. is turning into a police state.”

In Germany, Christian Lindner, the leader of the small, pro-business Free Democratic Party, suggested this month that the country should look toward Mr. Musk and Mr. Milei when thinking about disruption and reform.

In her crudely edited video message on X, Ms. Seibt criticized Mr. Merz’s opposition to that idea as well as his repeated vow not to work with the AfD.

The AfD is polling at 19 percent, and its leaders appeared ready to make the most of the post, apparently hoping that it could help attract more voters and serve as a jumping-off point for communications with the Trump White House. …

 

JTA: Vladimir Putin accuses ‘ethnic Jews’ of tearing apart the Russian Orthodox Church

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“They’re tearing the church apart but they’re not even atheists,” Putin said. “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.”

Critics of Putin decried the statement as antisemitic, noting parallels to Soviet state antisemitism under Josef Stalin, when the Kremlin persecuted Jews and accused them of being “rootless cosmopolitans.”

Once again, as happens so often, rather than try to show that the people hostile to the Orthodox Church are not Jews or that there is no hostility to the Orthodox Church, they trot out something from the past that really has no bearing on the present situation.

JTA

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian leader since his 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Putin made the allegation during his lengthy annual press conference ahead of the New Year, which lasted four hours on Thursday. In the middle of of the event, Putin addressed punitive actions against the Russian Orthodox Church elsewhere in Europe. The church is considered to be closely tied to Putin’s regime, and its leaders have been expelled from countries such as Bulgaria and Estonia.

Putin said the church was “being tortured” — and blamed Jews.

“They’re tearing the church apart but they’re not even atheists,” Putin said. “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.”

Critics of Putin decried the statement as antisemitic, noting parallels to Soviet state antisemitism under Josef Stalin, when the Kremlin persecuted Jews and accused them of being “rootless cosmopolitans.”

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, the former chief rabbi of Moscow who left Russia after refusing to support the invasion of Ukraine, tweeted that Putin was “reviving Soviet-era tropes like ‘rootless cosmopolitans,’” and referenced the “Doctors’ Plot,” another of Stalin’s antisemitic campaigns.

“This echoes the Stalinist antisemitic rhetoric of the “Doctors’ Plot” (1948-53),” he wrote. “History teaches us: hate must be challenged. We call on European leaders to condemn these statements!”

Putin and his deputies have employed antisemitic rhetoric in their arguments for their invasion of Ukraine. Although Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is Jewish, Putin has claimed that Ukraine is led by a “neo-Nazi regime.”

In the press conference, Putin also blamed the ouster of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad on Iran. Assad was an ally of Russia and is now living in exile there. Putin said he planned to meet with Assad but had not yet. He also said he was open to meeting with President-elect Donald Trump.