Den judiska hatkampanjen mot Ryssland

There aren't many differences between 2013 Russia and 1939 Nazi Germany or Stalin's Soviet Union. President Putin continues to violate the human rights of political, racial and sexual minorities. The latest wave of anti-gay laws is leading to cruel systematic torture and prosecution by bigots, even in public.

This time, the target is Russia. Under President Vladimir Putin, Russia has reverted to the habits of the old Soviet Union, cracking down on internal dissent, backing the world’s worst regimes, such as Syria and Iran, and adopting a confrontational stance toward the United States, most recently by granting asylum to Edward Snowden, a fugitive who is regarded by many Americans as a traitor.

As a stalwart of what he regards as “traditional” values, Putin has also declared war on homosexuality. In July, Putin signed a bill that makes it illegal for gay couples to adopt Russian-born children. And if you are a heterosexual couple living in a country where gay marriage is legal, then you too are prohibited from adopting Russian children.

Speaking out is exactly the right strategy. Inasmuch as the boycott calls highlight Russia’s grotesque violations of the human rights of gay people, they are welcome.

‘Mr Fry asked him how Britain would use its attendance to make the case for gay rights and seemed pleased at the replies he received.’

President Putin was making scapegoats of gay people, just as Hitler did with the Jews. Mr Fry had made no attempt to conceal his lifelong disdain for the Tories, although he praised the Prime Minister’s stance on gay rights in the UK.

His maternal grandparents, Martin and Rosa Neumann,[7] were Hungarian Jewish immigrants from Šurany, which is now in Slovakia.[7][9][10] His mother's aunt and cousins died in Auschwitz.[7]

känner sig djupt indignerad och upprörd över Rysslands avskyvärda homopolitik

har givetvis inte ett skvatt att göra med hans förmenta judiskhet och allt att göra med hans humanism och egna homosexuella läggning. Fry är förövrigt ateist

Förövrigt tycker jag att din fixering vid judarna är både obehaglig och patetisk.

Fighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we are going to do with marriage when we get there — because we lie that the institution of marriage is not going to change, and that is a lie. The institution of marriage is going to change and it should change, and again I don't think it should exist.

In his first U.S. interview since a worldwide boycott was launched against Stolichnaya vodka in response to the Russian government’s anti-gay crackdown, the CEO of the company that owns the iconic “Stoli” brand insisted that his company is “not a Russian company,” even as he confirmed that the company operates a distillery in Russia, that “several hundred” of its 2,500 employees are in Russia and that it obtains its ingredients from Russia. Val Mendeleev, chief operating officer of SPI Group, the Luxembourg-based company which owns the brand outside of Russia, also announced that in response to the boycott the company would be making a financial donation to an unspecified group working on behalf of Russian LGBT activists fighting against the Russian government’s anti-gay policies. (Scroll down to listen to the full interview)

Sitting down for an in-studio interview with me on SiriusXM Progress on Monday, Mendeleev described himself as an “ex-Russian,” having left the country 20 years ago, and said that the billionaire owner of the SPI Group, Yuri Scheffler, is an “ex-Russian” and a political opponent of the current Russian government. Scheffler, Mendeleev said, left the country 10 years ago, lives in London and Switzerland, and has since been in a bitter business dispute with the Russian government. Both men, Mendeleev said, condemn the Russian anti-gay policies, as did the company in an open letter several days ago. SPI group, Mendeleev said, owns the Stoli name worldwide but is not allowed to sell the brand inside Russia, where a state-owned company owns and markets it; because of the dispute, SPI changed the label on the bottle to say “premium” vodka, from “Russian” vodka in 2007.

“Stoli has been a friend of the LGBT community and has been an opponent of the Russian government,” Mendeleev said. “Stoli was singled out by the community with which we associated in a way that we don’t believe was appropriate. If you look at our relationship with the Russian government, we’ve been boycotted by the Russian government for the past 10 years. We’ve been threatened, raided. And now we are being boycotted by the LGBT community.”