Language:
English
Year of publication:
2014
Titel der Quelle:
Moreshet; Journal for the Study of the Holocaust and Antisemitism
Angaben zur Quelle:
11 (2014) 183-204
Keywords:
Jews Attitudes
;
Antisemitism
;
Elections
;
Political campaigns
Abstract:
Based on an examination of Russian newspapers, both central and provincial (the latter published in the Ulyanovsk region), made during the two-month period before the parliamentary elections of December 2007 and the two-month period before the election of the president in March 2008. Notes that during the electoral campaigns, the mainstream papers avoided making anti-Jewish declarations or publishing anti-Jewish articles. Papers controlled by communists, the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party, and even the ultra-right newspaper "Zavtra" occasionally made covert anti-Jewish innuendos and used expressions like "some minorities" and "chosen by God". To the contrary, marginal extremist papers, like "Duel", "Potayonnoye", and even "Russkii Vestnik" controlled by the Russian Church, were full of antisemitic declarations and articles. The main canard of the antisemitic press during this period was the allegation that the presidential candidate Medvedev was a covert Jew.
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