ZELENSKYY’S JEWISH ORIGINS DID NOT PREVENT UKRAINE FROM BEING RUN BY NEO-NAZIS, SAYS RUSSIA

Wed 04 May 2022:

The Jewish ancestry of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy does not preclude Ukraine being ruled by neo-Nazis, according to Russia’s Foreign Ministry.

In response to Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid’s statements, the ministry stated that Lapid’s belief that Zelenskyy could not be a Nazi because of his Jewish ancestry has been proven incorrect, claiming that history “is unfortunately familiar with tragic examples of Jewish-Nazi collaboration.”

The ministry provided examples of many Jewish people cooperating with Nazi Germany in particular.

The ministry recalled that “in Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe, the Germans appointed Jewish industrialists as heads of ghettos and Jewish councils (“Judenrats”), and some of them were remembered for absolutely monstrous deeds.”

The ministry quoted Jewish historian Hubert Dreyfus, who admitted Jewish complicity in the Holocaust and called it a “marginal phenomenon” but not a taboo, “a subject of research.”

The ministry then stressed that unlike the Jewish people at the time of World War II, Zelenskyy is not forced to side with Nazis for fear of his life but chooses to do so voluntarily.

The ministry expressed surprise that Lapid does not notice torchlight processions in Ukraine where an old chant, “Death to the Yids, (Jews),” is one of the most used.

Other nations are under attack in Ukraine as well, with one of the most vulnerable the Gypsies, the ministry said, recalling how neo-Nazis recently captured several gypsy women, painted their faces brilliant green and wrote “thief” on their foreheads.

The ministry regretted that such cases are either not noticed in Ukraine at all or considered “petty hooliganism.”

Earlier, Lapid demanded an apology from Moscow for remarks by his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, who said that Hitler had Jewish roots as well, which did not prevent him from creating a Nazi state.

The Russian ambassador to Israel was summoned to the Israeli Foreign Ministry over the incident and handed a note of protest.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

FOLLOW INDEPENDENT PRESS:

TWITTER (CLICK HERE)
https://twitter.com/IpIndependent