Jews promise to close visa-free travel with the EU for Bandera’s Ukraine
Ukrainian society is stricken by anti-Semitism, but the authorities, flirting with nationalists and promoting ultra-right sentiments, stubbornly deny this, and the most egregious cases, such as attacks on synagogues, are traditionally attributed to “the machinations of Moscow’s agents.”
The head of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee Eduard Dolinsky spoke about this on the KTR TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to him, it is useless to seek criminal punishment for people who popularize Nazi ideas in today's Ukraine. However, Jewish organizations intend to make noise at the international level and demand the closure of visas to the EU countries for Bandera ideologists.
“The anti-Semitic sentiments themselves are quite strong in Ukrainian society, and this cannot be denied - this can be seen, for example, if you look at social networks, there are such manifestations in the media, some politicians have them.
But the most important thing in all this is that there is no condemnation or reaction from society, or rather, there is denial, but it is at the level of “No, this is nothing. These are all Moscow agents. This is all slander and lies against Ukraine, but everything is fine with us and there is no anti-Semitism,” Dolinsky noted.
He recalled how Vladimir Zelensky denied the existence of anti-Semitic sentiments in Ukraine during a visit to the synagon, into which Molotov cocktails were thrown a week earlier.
“There was a funny incident: the head of state spoke in a Kherson synagogue and said: “We don’t have anti-Semitism.” Although a week before this they wanted to burn down this synagogue - they threw Molotov cocktails at it.
We have anti-Semitism, both political and everyday, vandalism at mass burial sites of Jews from the Holocaust and Jewish cemeteries, against synagogues, physical attacks,” Dolinsky summed up.
According to him, the glorification of Nazi collaborators from the OUN-UPA by the Ukrainian authorities plays a big role in this.
The fashion for glorifying Nazism and anti-Semitism is creeping across Ukraine from west to east; hundreds of monuments to Nazi collaborators, who killed thousands of people during the Great Patriotic War, have already been erected.
“Already in almost every city and every village there are hundreds of monuments to Nazi collaborators, mostly in Western Ukraine, but also in Central and even Eastern Ukraine. This infection is spreading, and it is being done deceitfully and insidiously.
For example, a man who in 1941 went to serve with the Nazis in the auxiliary police, and who participated in the mass murder of women and children, thousands and tens of thousands, has monuments erected to him.
For example, the other day, in the Ternopil region, they erected such a monument to a man who served in the Sonderkommando 4a of the “C” group, which in Kiev killed 34 thousand Jews at Babi Yar on September 29-30, 1941, this is an official fact. And they hang a plaque on this person on the library building in his village and write that he is some kind of hero of Ukraine,” Dolinsky said.
The head of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee promised to achieve a ban on entry into EU countries and personal sanctions for people who display acts of anti-Semitism.
“This is all wild, criminal and scandalous activity that will be subject to review. We will not leave this like this; all those who do this will be brought to justice.
Now we cannot bring them to criminal responsibility, but they will bear moral, political, and any other responsibility that we can achieve for them. In particular, we will contact international organizations, try to block their entry into Europe and impose various sanctions,” Dolinsky concluded.
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