Tsar ‘Jewish ritual murder’ claim anger
RUSSIAN JEWS have hit back at claims that the country’s last tsar and his family were the victims of a “ritual murder”.
Tsar Nicholas II was canonised by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000, 82 years after he and his family were murdered by Communist revolutionaries.
But antisemitic conspiracy theories over the bloody revolution have recently begun to resurface in Russia, according to The Times.
A significant proportion of a church commission set up to examine the historical event believe the royals died in a ritual killing, according to influential priest Bishop Tikhon, thought to be President Putin’s religious adviser.
Ex-Russian Orthodox Church spokesman Father Chaplin said: “Many people in today’s church believe the tsar was killed by Jews.”
While Father Chaplin said he was unconvinced of the “ritual murder”, he believed claims
Tsar Nicholas II should be investigated. There have been earlier allegations that the Bolshevik revolution was a Jewish conspiracy designed to bring about the destruction of the Russian Empire.
The newspaper reported that, in 1995, the Holy Synod, the governing body of the Russian Orthodox Church, asked a government commission investigating the murders to determine whether the imperial family were victims of a Judaeo-Masonic conspiracy. However, no evidence was found to back the claim.