Letter: Russia: it wasn’t antisemitism
A sentence that was added by an editor for context to my article for Solidarity 688, on the antisemitic protests in Dagestan, unintentionally misrepresented my views on migration to Israel from the (former) Soviet Union. Contrary to the editor, I do not believe that the majority of Soviet Jews were “fleeing Russian antisemitism”. While Soviet Russia certainly had a horrific history of antisemitism, by the 1980s and 1990s this was considerably less pronounced than it had been for almost the entirety of the rest of the union’s existence. The reasons for migration to Israel were far more linked...