The IF is also visiting a Synagogue so we can say they are no longer anti-semities.
I disagree. While it certainly suggests that the imperial family did not want to be viewed as anti-semites, visiting a synagogue does not constitute proof of anti-semitism any more than a trip to Africa proves that a person believes blacks are equal to whites. What they believed privately and how this affected the tsar's policies with regard to his jewish subjects is another matter entirely.
A word like "anti - seminitism" is something we use nowadays. In Nicholas's Russia it was considered quite normal for upper class people being anti - semities. To my knowledge, it has been normal not only in Russia, but all around Europe for a very long time - i'd dare say, till WWII. Hitler was not the "only stupid evil man in the world" who hates Jews - it was, as far as I know, a very common way of thinking, even if it sounds horrible to us.
We should remember that people of other cultures usually have a different way to view the world. Nicholas was not "evil" because was antisemite. Most of russian - and not only russian! - were.
Of course, i'm not saying being anti - semite is right, on the contrary. Just pointing out that people in different periods think differrent ways.
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