By Ugo Poletti |
A new report on antisemitism exploited by Russian propaganda looks into how Russia’s perennial fallback scapegoat – wicked world Jewry – has found new life with the war against Ukraine.
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The Gino Germani Institute of Social Sciences and Strategic Studies, an Italian think tank based in Rome and focused on countering disinformation, has presented its 2026 research paper, “Antisemitism and Russian Active Measures from the Tsars to Putin,” authored by researcher Massimiliano De Pasquale.
The study, which traces developments from the era of the tsars through the Soviet period to the present day, argues that Russian antisemitism is not merely a relic of the past but an active component of contemporary hybrid warfare. Through the use of trolls, bots and compliant media outlets, Moscow is said to stoke antisemitism across the Western world – on the right (via white supremacism) and on the left (via radical anti-Zionism) – with the sole aim of eroding the social fabric of liberal democracies.
Ugo Poletti Ugo Poletti is the Editor-in-Chief of “The Odessa Journal”, online newspaper that was launched during the Covid-19 quarantine to provide news about art, culture, history, business and social life in the maritime capital of Ukraine. He is an Italian entrepreneur, co-founder of the “Rotary Club Odessa Internationa”l, dealing with charity initiatives. During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he wrote a book for the Italian readers: “Nel cuore di Odessa”, that was published in Italy, on June 2022.