Upon the arrival of pilgrims from Israel to Ukraine to celebrate the Jewish New Year Rosh Hashanah, Russian resources distributed a video online in which several Hasidim allegedly tore Ukrainian flags from a flagpole and threw them in the trash. Instead, they installed the Israeli flag. And at the end of the video, the man who threw the Ukrainian flag in the trash bin said in Russian: ‘This is Israel, baby”.

In fact, this video was not filmed in Ukraine and has nothing to do with the celebration of Rosh Hashanah by pilgrims in Uman. This is reported in the StopFake project. Using a reverse image search in Yandex, it was possible to establish that this video had been distributed online since at least June 2022. The video was mainly published by Russian propaganda resources, as well as anonymous Telegram channels. Many of the resources where the video appeared claimed that it was filmed in Israel, where local residents, unhappy with the presence of Ukrainian flags on the streets, replaced them with Israeli symbols.

Such fakes about anti-Semitism of Ukrainians or deliberate bad attitude of Jews towards Ukrainians are not uncommon. Earlier we analyzed the Russian disinformation message that Ukraine organized a “Jewish pogrom” in Dagestan.