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Thursday, January 24, 2019
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Thursday, January 24, 2019
Visiting Ukraine leader blasted for ignoring Holocaust complicity
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleTop Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff criticizes Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko for ignoring Ukrainian complicity in the Holocaust during his visit to Israel this week, and for urging Jerusalem to recognize the Holodomor, a man-made famine in 1930s that killed millions of Ukrainians, as a genocide.
Zuroff also takes Poroshenko’s Israeli hosts to task for not having challenged him publicly on Kiev’s policy to honor Ukrainian nationalist wartime heroes, many of whom were involved in massacres against Jews.
“What happened is the height of chutzpah,” fumes Zuroff, who heads Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel office. “He comes here, and asks Israel to recognize Israel the Holodomor as genocide, which it wasn’t.”
— Raphael Ahren
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