People tend to “not check what happened in the past,” acting Ambassador to Russia Alexander Ben Zvi has said.
Israel opposes Ukraine’s glorification of World War II Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera, the Jewish state’s acting ambassador to Russia, Alexander Ben Zvi, has told TASS. In comments published on Monday, Ben Zvi confirmed that Israeli authorities are aware of the Bandera cult in Ukraine and have raised the issue with Kiev.
Bandera was a leader in the militant Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and headed the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) during World War II. The group collaborated with Nazi Germany to massacre over 100,000 Poles, Jews, Russians, and Soviet-aligned Ukrainians.
Despite the UPA-ordered genocide, Bandera and other UPA members were declared national heroes by former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko in 2010 – a designation reaffirmed by the current Kiev leadership. Ukrainian nationalists continue to celebrate Bandera with annual torchlight marches, referring to him as the “father of the nation.”
“We have stated this more than once. It’s just that people do not check what happened in the past. Our ambassadors to Ukraine even wrote notes of protest at one time,” Ben Zvi said when asked to clarify Israel’s stance on the issue. He added that the Israeli Foreign Ministry is “well aware” of the matter.
His comments appear to contradict recent remarks by Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar. At a press briefing marking Israel’s presidency of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) earlier this month, Sa’ar said he was unaware of Bandera’s veneration in Ukraine.
“First of all, I didn’t know about it. I will check it,” the minister said, adding he would issue a condemnation “if there is a necessity.”
Israel’s Foreign Ministry and its embassy in Kiev have issued several statements denouncing Ukraine’s honoring of Nazi collaborators over the years. However, no such statement has been made since 2022, with embassy officials telling Haaretz they “have made our position clear many times, but apparently there is nothing we can do, at least at the moment.”
Moscow has repeatedly warned of a Nazi revival in Ukraine and cited “denazification” as one of the main goals of its military operation against Kiev. Western media and officials, however, have downplayed Nazi imagery in Ukraine, often dismissing criticism as “Russian propaganda.”
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Don’t throw stones when sitting in a sh*thole glasshouse.
He would have been an Ashkenazi jew.
Deception and subterfuge by the Mossad and Unit 8200 once again…
After all, the J3wi$h-formed AZOV Battalions are…NAZIS …doing the battle against the Russians in behalf of Khazarian Zionism!
In the SS privately-owned Konzentration Kamps, the Ashkenazi and Khazaria J3w$ serving as Kapos and informants oppressed the Hasidic J3w$ and non-J3w$ in behalf of the Nazis.
In the Soviet Gulags, the Bolshevik Communist J3w$ ran the camps, as verified by Aleksander Solzhenytsyn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqpLNTnopnw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfwJCpAcfMk
From Unit 8200 to Wiz’s $32B exit: The blueprint for Israeli cyber success
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/sjltwsk2kg
Google ‘playing with fire’ by acquiring Israeli company founded by Unit 8200 veterans
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/google-playing-fire-acquiring-israeli-company-founded-unit-8200-veterans
Outrage, as Israel stands on the bodies of murdered Palestinians. I see they are using these poor people as human shields, tied to the front of jeeps and other vehicles and as what they term “slaves” or “mosquitoes”, who they send into houses and buildings, where they fear booby traps and ambushes. Akin to the canary in the coal mine, only worse again.
reference please
Nazi Azov has been already welkomed in tel aviv.
No moaning about ” anti-semitism” then.
The pot calling the kettle…………….