Rallying for Ukraine in Tel Aviv

Jews will always forgive, always err on the side of helping their fellow man, often to their own detriment. But Ukraine?

By Valerie Sobel , INN

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Israelis who want to rally for Ukraine? Why is this remarkable when there are rallies in other parts of the world?

Because the antisemitic murderous savagery of Ukrainians was only second to Nazi Germans. (Some will take me to task on this generous statement and rightfully so.)

Most of the Israeli rally enthusiasts are emigres from Ukraine, who lost ancestors in horrendous Ukrainian atrocities against the Jews. An estimated 2M people lie in unmarked graves throughout Ukraine, murdereed at the hands of Germans and their enthusiastic collaborators, Ukrainians. One of the most tragic pogroms in Ukraine against the Jews happened in 1946, after the tragedy of the Holocaust was over, at the hands of Ukraine national hero, Stepan Bandera and his loyalists.

The man and his army of citizens who stood against communism but savagely killed Jews and collaborated with Germans in pursuit of his ultra-nationalist agenda had no trouble attracting a huge army of followers. Eventually, he fled to Germany but was killed by KGB. Today, streets throughout Ukraine are named after this Satan…

Before this evil, another murderous antisemite by the name of Symon Petliura presided over Ukraine:

Prior to the advent of Hitler, the greatest mass murder of Jews occurred in Ukraine during the Civil War. All participants in the conflict were guilty of murdering Jews but the Ukrainian Volunteer Army had the most Jewish blood on its hands. The number of Jews killed during that period is estimated to be 35,000 – 50,000. A total of 1,236 violent attacks on Jews had been recorded between 1918 and 1921 in Ukraine. Among them, 493 were carried out by Ukrainian People’s Republic soldiers under the command of Symon Petliura, 307 by independent Ukrainian warlords, 213 by Denikin’s army, 106 by the Red Army, and 32 by the Polish Army. And that’s for starters. Today a number of Ukrainian Churches are named in honor of this evil murderer, throughout the free world and in Ukraine.

More recent history has Ukrainians sought after by the Nazis at the concentration camps. They could always be counted on for excessive brutality and that’s why so many served as camp guards.

Lest we forget, it was the Russian Red Army that liberated remaining tortured Jews from the Ukrainian-guarded Auschwitz.

This is what Ukraine represents to Diaspora Jews and Israel, make no mistake! Yet…

Yet…we’re once again witness to the incredible benevolence of Jews towards itheir torturer, Ukraine. And this, after establishing a brand new, ground-breaking political and economic relationship with Russia. A country that considered Israel enemy since the birth of the Jewish State. Israelis have a lot to lose here – Putin’s wrath will not forgive or forget.

Incidentally, when did Ukraine rally for Israel? When did Ukrainians march in support of Israelis sitting in bomb shelters under the barrage of thousands of Hamas rockets? When did Ukraine send aid, military or moral to Israel, in which of dozens of wars on Israel…?

Something to put into perspective: Jews will always forgive. They will always err on the side of helping fellow man, often to their own detriment. Ergo, the non-violent, vengeance-free, but tragic history of the Jewish people.

The Israeli government was one of the first to extend aid and declare support. Prime Minister Bennett has flown to Europe to try to end the fighting. But make no mistake, this will never be reciprocated, nor is expected to be. Ever. Not from Ukraine and not from any other country.

…and let’s make sure the bittersweet irony of a brave Jewish man leading Ukraine in her darkest hour against a mammoth enemy is not lost on us. And neither is the strikingly profound significance of Zelensky’s role in history, no matter his fate.

Valerie Sobel is an Economist, writer, philanthropist, and a pianist living in Canada.

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March 7, 2022 | 6 Comments »

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  1. Why don’t they save the Ukrainian Jews instead of rallying for Ukraine?

    That’s what I want to know.

  2. Why then, if all this is so well documented, is everyone going gang busters for this neo-Nazi Ukrainian state? So we have to ask, who benefits by having Russia invade Ukraine? Clearly NATO has continuously provoked the Russian bear since the end of the Cold War, reneging on its commitment not to expand eastward . The US has, at last count, thirteen Bio-weapons Labs scattered throughout Ukraine. Two on the Russian border. There is also one in Georgia, another NATO candidate. Why? Europe has tried to conquer Russia five times since the early 17th C. Poland 1610-1612, Sweden 1708-1709, Napolean 1812, WWI 1914-1918 and the Nazi invasion in 1941. Now in the early 21st C. we have Europe in the guise of NATO squeezing Russia with member states right up against its border. With missiles in Poland! I think Russia has been extremely patient. It warned Europe repeatedly but was ignored and vilified constantly. It is Western globalist greed and arrogance that has and is fuelling this completely unnecessary war. But those that are forever fomenting strife couldn’t give a rat’s a** about the common folk who always suffer for the elites’ evil machinations. Like Gen. Douglas McGregor, I think Zelensky is a puppet, an actor beholden to the interests of those in the West who want to keep this carnage going for their own evil designs. Sadly, it won’t end well for anyone on the ground but we can at least hope that the globalist cabal’s responsibility for this will be exposed for all to see. But never underestimate the power of globalist propaganda whitewashing their crimes and projecting them onto their enemies. They have, so far, successfully convinced many that Ukraine is good and Russia is bad. Would that it was so black and white.

  4. Jews are in denial.

    They don’t learn about their own history because to do so would be too painful.

    They prefer to think that if they fight for “justice” (which is often a knee-jerk reaction on their part), thing will somehow work out and history won’t repeat itself.

  5. US & Ukraine at UN Refuse to Condemn Nazism
    December 23, 2021

    This is verbatim from the official report of the U.N. General Assembly plenary of Dec. 16:

    “The Assembly next took up the report on ‘Elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance,’ containing two draft resolutions.

    “By a recorded vote of 130 in favour to 2 against (Ukraine, United States), with 49 abstentions, the Assembly then adopted draft resolution I, ‘Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance’.” It goes on:

    “By its terms, the Assembly expressed deep concern about the glorification of the Nazi movement, neo?Nazism and former members of the Waffen SS organization, including by erecting monuments and memorials, holding public demonstrations in the name of the glorification of the Nazi past, the Nazi movement and neo-Nazism, and declaring or attempting to declare such members and those who fought against the anti-Hitler coalition, collaborated with the Nazi movement and committed war crimes and crimes against humanity ‘participants in national liberation movements’.

    “Further, the Assembly urged States to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination by all appropriate means, including through legislation, urging them to address new and emerging threats posed by the rise in terrorist attacks incited by racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance, or in the name of religion or belief. It would call on States to ensure that education systems develop the necessary content to provide accurate accounts of history, as well as promote tolerance and other international human rights principles. It likewise would condemn without reservation any denial of or attempt to deny the Holocaust, as well as any manifestation of religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence against persons or communities on the basis of ethnic origin or religious belief.”

    Torchlight march in honor of the anniversary of the birth of Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian wartime fascist leader, Kyiv, January 1, 2015 (VO Svoboda/cc-by-3.0/Wikimedia Commons)

    In Ukraine, support for the Ukrainian nationalist divisions who fought alongside the Nazis has become, over the last eight years, the founding ideology of the modern post-2013 Ukrainian state (which is very different from the diverse Ukrainian state which briefly existed 1991-2013). The full resolution on Nazism and racism passed by the General Assembly is lengthy, but these provisions in particular were voted against by the United States and by the Ukraine:

    “Emphasizes the recommendation of the Special Rapporteur that ‘any commemorative celebration of the Nazi regime, its allies and related organizations, whether official or unofficial, should be prohibited by States’, also emphasizes that such manifestations do injustice to the memory of the countless victims of the Second World War and negatively influence children and young people, and stresses in this regard that it is important that States take measures, in accordance with international human rights law, to counteract any celebration of the Nazi SS organization and all its integral parts, including the Waffen SS;

    “Expresses concern about recurring attempts to desecrate or demolish monuments erected in remembrance of those who fought against Nazism during the Second World War, as well as to unlawfully exhume or remove the remains of such persons, and in this regard urges States to fully comply with their relevant obligations, inter alia, under article 34 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 1949;

    “Condemns without reservation any denial or attempt to deny the Holocaust;

    “Welcomes the call of the Special Rapporteur for the active preservation of those Holocaust sites that served as Nazi death camps, concentration and forced labour camps and prisons, as well as his encouragement of States to take measures, including legislative, law enforcement and educational measures, to put an end to all forms of Holocaust denial.”

    As reported in The Times of Israel, hundreds took part in a demonstration in Kiev in May and others throughout Ukraine, in honor of a specific division of the SS. That is but one march and one division — glorification of its Nazi past is a mainstream part of Ukrainian political culture.

    https://consortiumnews.com/2021/12/23/us-ukraine-refuse-to-condemn-nazism-at-un/
    This was 2 1/2 months ago!!

  6. Nazi collaborator monuments in Ukraine

    There are hundreds of statues and monuments in the United States and around the world to people who abetted or took part in the murder of Jews and other minorities during the Holocaust. As part of an ongoing investigation, the Forward has, for the first time, documented them in this collection of articles. For an initial guide to each country’s memorials click here. For a 2022 update to the investigation, click here.

    Note: beginning in 2014, when the Maidan uprising brought a new government to Ukraine, the country has been erecting monuments to Nazi collaborators and Holocaust perpetrators at an astounding pace — there’s been a new plaque or street renaming nearly every week. Because of this, the Ukraine section represents an extremely partial listing of the several hundred monuments, statues, and streets named after Nazi collaborators in Ukraine.
    Bandera memorials in Ukraine by the Forward

    Photo by Wikimedia Commons

    Bandera memorials in Ukraine

    L’viv and Ivano-Frankivsk — 1.5 million Jews, a quarter of all Jews murdered in the Holocaust, came from Ukraine. Over the past six years, the country has been institutionalizing worship of the paramilitary Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, which collaborated with the Nazis and aided in the slaughter of Jews, and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which massacred thousands of Jews and 70,000-100,000 Poles. A major figure venerated in today’s Ukraine is Stepan Bandera (1909–1959), the Nazi collaborator who led a faction of OUN (called OUN-B); above are his statues in L’viv (left) and Ivano-Frankivsk (right). Many thanks to Per Anders Rudling, Tarik Cyril Amar and Jared McBride for their guidance on Ukrainian collaborators.
    Nazi propaganda photo; Bandera statue in Ternopil, Ukraine by the Forward

    Photo by Mykola Vasylechko

    Left, Nazi propaganda photo; Bandera statue in Ternopil, Ukraine

    Ternopil and numerous other cities — another statue of Bandera in Ternopil. Above left is a photo from Zhovkva 1941, when OUN members welcomed the Nazis, assisting with their murder of Jews. The banners include “Heil Hitler!” and “Glory to Bandera!”
    …

    https://forward.com/news/462916/nazi-collaborator-monuments-in-ukraine/