Today, Ukrainians gathered in the Maidan in Kiev to express solidarity with Israel:
Ukrainian Jews have been hugely supportive of the Revolution of Dignity of 2013 and of the attempts to modernize that the country has been making since then.
The only people who have been more supportive are Ukraine’s Muslims:
There has been a really lovely environment of mutual support, respect and shared enthusiasm among Ukrainians of all ethnicities since the 2013 revolution.
And to the stupid piece of trash who called me a fascist for supporting the Ukrainian revolution: up yours, you loser. Go kiss the stinky ass of your idol Putin.
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This is GREAT!
Glory to Ukraine!
And thanks a lot to Clarissa!
Ukraine is undefeatable as long as millions of people love her. And this love will never end.
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This is a huge achievement. Holding the support of Jews and Muslims at the same time is a big deal these days.
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But, it isn’t really support of Jews and Muslims. It is support of Jews and Crimean Tatars. There is a history of Jewish dissidents like Ilya Gabai and Elena Bonner strongly supporting the Crimean Tatar national struggle to return from Uzbekistan to their homeland. There were also Ukrainians such as Petro Grigorenko who introduced Gabai to the Crimean Tatar cause. The groups also don’t really identify themselves along religious lines as much as they do along lines of natsional’nost. For a number of reasons including the common history in the 1970s I reference above there was a Crimean Tatar – Ukrainian -Jewish alliance and this has carried over in the Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian Jewish support for Kiev against Moscow. But, it has very little to do with religion.
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It also has very little to do with Judaism. Jews are supported as representatives of an ethnic group which has had a complex history in Ukraine and not as practitioners of a religion.
Religion is irrelevant in Ukraine and in Russia. It’s all mostly a joke. And that’s a good thing, I believe, because these countries don’t have a good record with it.
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What does the banner in the top photograph say?
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Together forever.
This was a slogan that was first used in Israel to show support for Ukraine’s revolution in early 2014. And now Ukrainians are using it back at Israelis. It’s all very touching.
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