The Jews of Ukraine keep publishing open letters, begging Putin to stop “protecting” them by invading their country.
Of course, the Jews understand that the last thing in the world that preoccupies Putin is their well-being. The letters are aimed at those members of the international community who are eager to believe Putin’s lies.
It makes every sense for Jews to support Ukraine’s sovereignty, given that the independent Ukrainian Republic of the 1918-20 championed the rights of Jewish people in a way unparalleled in all Russian-speaking territories before or since.
There seems to be an unfortunate tendency by some Americans to associate anti-Semitism in Ukraine with anti-Semitism by Ukrainians. The pogroms during the Civil War were carried out mostly by Russian White forces under General Deniken who strongly opposed Ukrainian independence. Likewise Babi Yar and other mass killings of Jews during WWII were conducted by the Nazi occupation regime. There was no independent Ukrainian state at that time.
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Yes. Exactly. But it is much more convenient to propagate the myth of congenitally anti-Semitic Ukrainians.
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