Anti-Israel comments by some leaders of the Russian Muslim community are harming interfaith coexistence in Russia, the leading Russian Jewish group said. The Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia leveled the criticism after Muhammad Karachai, deputy head of the Union of Muftis of Russia, earlier this week said Israel’s war on Hezbollah has revealed “the aggressive nature of the Zionist state that organized a real holocaust in Lebanon.”
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