Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, took the floor today to criticize anti-Semitism around the world, saying that “street protesters” in the West “have found common cause with a Russian dictator.”
He said: “The brutal terrorist attacks of October 7th poured gasoline on the flames of anti-Semitic hatred around the world. Take the alarming reports this weekend out of Russia, a country with a long troubled history of anti-Semitism. After weeks of pro-Hamas propaganda spewed from the Kremlin, an angry mob overran a provincial airport and surrounded a plane that had just arrived from Israel. Chillingly, the mob went person to person, checking passports and asking if they were Muslim or Jew, a modern-day pogrom in southern Russia. Vladimir Putin is usually quick to accuse other countries of imagined atrocities, but he's issued no such condemnation of Hamas for the very real savagery inflicted on innocent Israelis. In fact, as this latest despicable episode of anti-Semitism unfolded on Russian soil, Putin's regime welcomed a delegation of Hamas terrorists to the Kremlin. The Russian government's policy is to demand that Israel agree to a ceasefire. A de facto amnesty for the terrorist aggressors who slaughtered children in their homes a few weeks ago. In that regard, street protesters across the West have found common cause with a Russian dictator.”
