[Peace-discuss] ADL Defends Ukraine's Neo-Nazis: They "Don't Attack Jews or Jewish Institutions"

[J.B. Nicholson]

See the article for screenshots from ADL & the Algemeiner's respective websites.

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62981

> The Anti-Defamation League, the leading pro-Israel lobbying group in America,
> published a Q&A defending Ukraine's neo-Nazi groups on the grounds that they
> "don't attack Jews or Jewish institutions."
> 
> In an article titled, "Why is Putin Calling the Ukrainian Government a Bunch of
> Nazis?"[1] the ADL interviewed David Fishman, professor of Jewish History at The
> Jewish Theological Seminary, to explain why Ukraine's neo-Nazis aren't so bad.
> 
> "There are neo-Nazis in Ukraine, just as there are in the U.S., and in Russia for
> that matter. But they are a very marginal group with no political influence and
> who don't attack Jews or Jewish institutions in Ukraine," Fishman said.
> 
> "Russia has for years highlighted the activity of a marginal group of Ukrainian
> ultra-nationalists as a way of trying to stigmatize all of Ukraine," Fishman
> claimed. "Yes, some members of these ultra-nationalist groups have used Nazi
> insignia, made Hitler salutes, and used antisemitic rhetoric, but they are
> politically insignificant and in no way representative of Ukraine. The political
> parties which the ultra-nationalists support received just over 2 percent of the
> vote in the 2019 elections. Ukraine is a flawed democracy, but unquestionably a
> democracy, and in no way a Nazi regime."
> 
> Ukraine's neo-Nazis are the good type of neo-Nazis because they're funded[2] and
> armed[3] by Israeli billionaires.

[1] 
https://web.archive.org/web/20220325012214/https://www.adl.org/blog/why-is-putin-calling-the-ukrainian-government-a-bunch-of-nazis
[2] https://archive.ph/WQS5Y
[3] https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-arming-neo-nazis-ukraine/24876