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Israel’s ambassador to Kiev ‘shocked’ after Ukrainian region honors Nazi collaborator Bandera ​

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/446511-stepan-bandera-year-ukraine/

Published time: 14 Dec, 2018 21:13
Edited time: 15 Dec, 2018 12:09

Activists of Ukrainian nationalist parties mark the 109th anniversary of the birth of Stepan Bandera in Kiev. © Valentyn Ogirenko

The Israeli ambassador to Kiev has expressed outrage, after a region in Ukraine dedicated the year 2019 to the prominent nationalist leader and Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera.

Joel Lion took to Twitter on Thursday to say he was “shocked” after the Lviv region honored Bandera in this manner. The move was to mark the 110th anniversary of Bandera’s birth.

Lion’s remarks reference the fact that, before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, Bandera’s Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) had collaborated with the Nazis. However, his friendship with them didn’t last long and Bandera was arrested and imprisoned by the Germans.

Bandera is accused of condoning the ethnic cleansing of thousands of Poles in what is now western Ukraine, and Jewish groups have linked his followers to the mass murder of Jews.

Even so, many in Ukraine still regard Bandera as a hero, with lawmakers from Ukraine’s two biggest parties filing a motion earlier this month for President Petro Poroshenko to posthumously grant him the ‘Hero of Ukraine’ award.

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In their note, they said Bandera “fought for Ukrainian statehood against the Soviet and German occupation regimes” and became an “embodiment and symbol” of the struggle for Ukrainian independence, turning into “one of the main enemies” of both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

The award bestowed by Lviv comes after the Ukrainian city of Zhytomyr declared 2019 the year of Stepan Bandera in July. The controversial figure has been made an honorary citizen of dozens of cities in western Ukraine.

Ukraine has been seeing a rise in nationalism since the 2014 coup that launched the current government to power. In January, some 6,500 people across Ukraine marched to commemorate Bandera’s birthday, and dozens of events were held to honor him.
 
Hundreds march in Ukraine in annual tribute to Nazi collaborator​

Stepan Bandera led the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which fought alongside Nazi Germany during the Second World War, killed thousands of Jews and Poles

Link: https://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-march-in-ukraine-in-annual-tribute-to-nazi-collaborator/

By Cnaan Liphshiz
4 January 2021, 9:26 am | 0 

JTA — Hundreds of people marched bearing torches in the capital city of Ukraine Friday in an annual tribute to a leader who collaborated with Nazi Germany.

Israel’s ambassador condemned the torchlight march Friday in Kyiv in memory of Stepan Bandera, issuing the strongest rebuke yet by an Israeli official of the event, which has grown in scope amid rising nationalism in Ukraine.

“We strongly condemn any glorification of collaborators with the Nazi regime. It is time for Ukraine to come to terms with its past,” Ambassador Joel Lion wrote on Twitter Saturday.

At the march, many participants waved banners carrying the symbol of the far-right Svoboda party, whose leaders have often made anti-Semitic comments, and banners reading: “Nationalism is our religion. Bandera is our prophet,” Pravda Ukraine reported.

“We strongly condemn any glorification of collaborators with the Nazi regime. It is time for #Ukraine to come to terms with its past. https://t.co/yUtmk5Y9MP ”

— Joel Lion (@ambassadorlion) January 2, 2021”

During World War II, Bandera led the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, whose men killed thousands of Jews and Poles, including women and children, while fighting alongside Nazi Germany against the Red Army and communists.

A statue of Stepan Bandera in Lviv, Ukraine, September 2014. (Courtesy Andrey Syasko/via JTA)

Expressions of admiration for Bandera and other collaborators have increased in scope and status following the 2014 revolution in Ukraine, which toppled the regime of Viktor Yanukovych amid claims that he is a Russian stooge, and triggered an armed conflict with Russia.

In Lviv, Bandera’s birthplace, events celebrating him were also held and attended by many officials including Maxim Kozitsky, the head of the Lviv region. He and other officials laid wreaths on a monument for Bandera.
 
In Ukraine, far-right protesters demand Israel apologize for communist oppression​

Link: https://www.freedomofspeechtwentyfi...1/in-ukraine-far-right-protesters-demand.html

- January 08, 2021

https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/in-...and-israel-apologize-for-communist-oppression

(JTA) — After Israel’s ambassador to Ukraine condemned the honoring of Nazi collaborators in the former Soviet republic, dozens of people rallied outside the Israeli Embassy in Kyiv demanding that Jews apologize for Soviet oppression.

The far-right activists called on Israel and the Jews to assume responsibility specifically for Holodomor, a famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in the 1930s and is widely believed to have been caused by the government of Joseph Stalin, then the leader of the Soviet Union.

“Israel deliberately spreads anti-Semitism in Ukraine,” one protester, a white supremacist activist named Vladislav Goranin, said during a speech at the rally. He said Jews and Israel must “repent for genocide” on Ukrainians.

The action was in response to Israeli Ambassador Joel Lion’s tweet Saturday in which he condemned a torchlight march in memory of Stepan Bandera, a World War II Ukrainian leader whose troops killed thousands of Jews and who for a time was an ally of Nazi Germany.

Ultranationalists in Ukraine and beyond have often blamed Jews for Holodomor, citing the support of many Jews for communism and the prominent positions of power that some of Jewish origins achieved under its rule in the Soviet Union — even though they were often involved in the persecution of other Jews for their faith, which Eastern Bloc Jews were often discouraged from practicing.

Jewish support for communism increased as forces loyal to the czarist regime perpetrated multiple pogroms against Jews.
 
Jewish groups slam Brazilian president’s warm welcome to granddaughter of Hitler’s finance minister​

July 30, 2021 3:56 pm

Link: https://www.jta.org/quick-reads

Alternative for Germany (AfD) deputy leader Beatrix von Storch
Alternative for Germany (AfD) deputy leader Beatrix von Storch looks on during a party meeting in Dresden, Germany, April 10, 2021. (Jens Schlueter/AFP via Getty Images)

RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Brazil’s president effusively welcomed a far-right German lawmaker whose grandfather was a senior Nazi officer, causing an uproar among Jewish groups.

Jair Bolsonaro, who has been highly divisive among Brazilian Jewish voters despite his openly pro-Israel speech, met with Beatrix von Storch, the deputy leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and a member of the German parliament since 2017.

The right-wing Bolsonaro was all smiles while meeting with on Monday with von Storch, who is a granddaughter of Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, a former finance minister during Adolf Hitler’s Nazi rule.

“AfD is an extremist, xenophobic party whose leaders downplay Nazi atrocities and the Holocaust. Brazil is a diverse, pluralistic country that has a tradition of welcoming immigrants. We defend and seek to represent the tolerance, diversity and plurality that define our community,” said Claudio Lottenberg, president of the Brazilian Israelite Confederation, in a statement.

The AfD is linked to several extremist positions. The party supported the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol and has radically vilified Muslim immigrants in Germany. Late in 2017, Twitter temporarily suspended von Storch after she referred to a group of immigrants as “barbaric, Muslim, rapist hordes.”

The Anti-Defamation League and the Brazilian office of the pro-Israel StandWithUs nonprofit also criticized the meeting in Brasilia.

“Neither Bolsonaro nor any elected official should welcome an AfD politician. Germany’s far-right AfD party accepts Holocaust trivialization & denial and uses xenophobic rhetoric,” the ADL tweeted Tuesday.

Last week, von Storch was also welcomed by Eduardo Bolsonaro, the president’s son who is a popular federal lawmaker. She also met congresswoman Bia Kicis, chair of the Constitution, Justice and Citizenship Committee in the Chamber of Deputies. Kicis’ grandfather was a decorated Jewish war hero.

“I have the honor of being the granddaughter of General Samuel Kicis, recognized as a Brazilian Jewish hero who joined the Brazilian forces in the fight against fascism and Nazism in World War II,” Kicis said. “As a conservative congresswoman, I welcomed a German congresswoman, who, like me, defends Judeo-Christian values, the family and the sovereignty of her homeland.”

Bolsonaro, who was close with former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and some of his aides have been embroiled in previous controversies involving Nazi history. In 2019, Bolsonaro called the Nazis leftists, but later apologized for the comment. Last year, his culture minister was fired for using excerpts of a speech by Nazi propagandist leader Joseph Goebbels, and this year a senior adviser was criticized for making a white supremacist hand symbol during a legislative session.
 

Berlin has 290 streets named for people who expressed antisemitic views, analysis finds​

By Cnaan Liphshiz December 14, 2021 6:27 pm
Link: https://www.jta.org/2021/12/14/glob...ho-expressed-antisemitic-views-analysis-finds
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(JTA) — The 19th-century German historian who coined the phrase, later popularized by the Nazis, “the Jews are our misfortune” has a street named for him in Berlin. So does a 15th-century official who supported a murderous purge of Jews from his region, and a competitive athlete who was a darling of the Nazi regime.
In all, at least 290 streets or squares in Berlin are named for people who espoused antisemitic views, according to a new analysis conducted by the city’s commissioner in charge of fighting antisemitism.
Samuel Salzborn, a scholar of political science who was appointed to the commissioner role last year, is not calling for the names of the streets to be changed. Instead, he told the German broadcaster RBB that his office initiated the study to “create a systematic basis for an important social discussion.”
That discussion includes how to reckon with the fact that antisemitism was a mainstream view for centuries in Germany, meaning that many people who made significant contributions to the broader society may have expressed antisemitic views. For example, Martin Luther, the 16th-century German theologian who initiated Protestantism, called to persecute and banish Jews. Martinlutherstrasse runs through a trendy area of Berlin.
The report notes several streets that are named for people who became active in the Resistance to the Nazi regime but previously expressed antisemitic views.
A prominent example is Martin Niemöller, a pastor who opposed Nazism and in 1946 wrote the famous poem “First They Came,” which lists many victims of Nazism and decries the silence of other Germans about the persecution. Pastor-Niemöller-Platz, a public square and subway station in the northern part of Berlin, honors him.
But Niemöller expressed antisemitic views, accusing Jews of deicide. Harold Marcuse, a professor of modern German history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2003 wrote that Niemöller “was certainly a racist antisemite.” Niemöller, who was eventually imprisoned with Jewish inmates by the Nazis for opposing them, in 1963 acknowledged his antisemitism and apologized for it. He died in 1984 at the age of 92.
Other people whose names can be found on streets in Berlin, which has 4,000 roads in total, have more clear-cut track records. Otto Dibelius, a bishop who died in 1967 and before the rise of Nazism had written about the “solution” to the “Jewish Problem,” has a two-block street named for him. Dibelius’ proposal was to stop immigration by Jews and wait for the number of German Jews to plummet.
Meanwhile, a four-block street named for Heinrich von Treitschke, who coined the phrase “the Jews are our misfortune,” ends at a mall that includes a Zara clothing store.
The study’s author, a political scientist named Felix Sassmannshausen, suggested that renaming might be appropriate in some cases. In others, he said, adding a plaque or some other marker of the street’s namesake’s antisemitic history might be a good step.
 
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