ADL Gives the 'Neo-Nazis' In Ukraine A Pass, They Aren't So Bad
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Summary
ADL defends Ukraine's neo-Nazis and says they don't attack Jews or Jewish institutions. Is this also then an admission that the situation in other countries in the West, such as Europe and Canada, is not that bad?
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Well, it gets fascinating when you get into the weeds of the situation in Ukraine and Russia.
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Apparently, ADL is giving the so-called neo-Nazis a pass in Ukraine.
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ADL defends Ukraine's neo-Nazis and says they don't attack Jews or Jewish institutions.
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The Anti-Defamation League, the leading pro-Israeli lobby group in America,
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published a Q&A defending Ukraine's so-called neo-Nazi groups on the ground,
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saying that they don't attack Jews or Jewish institutions.
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In an article titled, Why is Putin Calling the Ukrainian Government a Bunch of Nazis?
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The ADL interviewed David Fishman, professor of Jewish history at the Jewish Theological Seminary,
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to explain why Ukraine's neo-Nazis aren't so bad.
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He says there are neo-Nazis in Ukraine, just as there are in the U.S. and in Russia, for that matter.
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But they are a very marginal group, he says, with no political influence or, and, he says, continues,
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who do not attack Jews or Jewish institutions in Ukraine, Fishman said.
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Isn't this also then an admission that the situation in other countries in the West,
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such as European countries or America or Canada, let's say,
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it's not that bad because, show me anywhere where so-called Nazis or neo-Nazis have any political influence.
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How often are they attacking Jews randomly or synagogues or something like that?
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For the most part, it's like gay ops and false flags, right?
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ADL is raising millions of dollars each year, probably tens of millions, if not, I'm not even sure how much.
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It's a lot of money they raise to go after hate groups and things like this, and Nazis is a big problem.
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But in Ukraine, they're serving our purposes, and also, they're on our team,
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and they're not attacking Jews, and they're not going after Jewish targets,
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Russia has for years highlighted the activity of a marginal group of Ukrainian ultranationalists
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as a way to try to stigmatize all of Ukraine, Fishman said.
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Yes, some members of these ultranationalist groups have used Nazi insignia
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and made Hitler salutes and used anti-Semitic rhetoric.
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If this would happen in any other country, it would be, I mean, the Kvetchometer would be at 100 Oives at this point,
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and it would be just, I mean, out of control, right?
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Oh, my God, look at this Nazi problem we're having in this country.
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There are people using, there's actual military bands using so-called Nazi insignia.
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They're doing Hitler salutes and having anti-Semitic rhetoric.
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Do you think that would be a problem if this was happening in the West?
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Part of the U.S. Army was a group, a subgroup of like 10, we don't know, 10, 20,000 people.
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Yeah, I think that'd be kind of reacting at this point, right?
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But they are politically insignificant and in no way representative of Ukraine.
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The political parties, which the ultranationalists support,
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received just over 2% of the vote in the 2019 elections.
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Imagine the party of the Swedes in Sweden or the Nordic resistance movement getting 2% of the vote.
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There's activists, Jewish activists right now, they're trying to terrorist label the Nordic resistance movement for what they're,
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I'm not trying to shit on the nationalist groups in Ukraine or anything like that.
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It's about the hypocrisy and the double standard, right?
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If they would have gotten 2% of the vote, there would have been articles,
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there would have been calls right now for the United States to terrorist label these groups as a way to go after them, right?
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And even the countries with sanctions if they don't take care of this Nazi problem in the country, right?
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Ukraine is a flawed democracy, he continues, but unquestionably a democracy and in no way a Nazi regime.
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And then the story goes on to detail, just the fact that there is some funding here from Kolomoisky and these kinds of things,
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but it's fascinating how they can look the other way.
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And at the same time, we kind of get an admission that unless you reach a certain criteria,
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according to the ADL and these Jewish activists and Israel-first people,
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apparently there's not a problem and we shouldn't be worried about it.
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Well, let's take that into account next time we hear about the big Nazi problem anywhere in a Western country
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and let's see if we can compare it to the situation in Ukraine.
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There's a German state now in Lower Saxony that is making the display of Z or Z,
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But it's a symbol now too, because Russia has it on its tanks.
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So they're criminalizing, they're potentially going to make it a criminal offense to use this letter.
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How do you deal with this if it's part of words and in the alphabet?
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I don't know, that's going to be very fascinating.
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Criminal penalties for Z symbol possible in the country, right?
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Lower Saxon has announced criminal consequences for using or spreading the Z symbol in public.
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Anyone who uses the Z symbol to publicly express their approval of Russian President Putin's war of aggression against Ukraine
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must expect criminal consequences in Lower Saxony, said the Interior Minister Boris Pistorius on Friday.
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There are parts of the alphabet that are going to be outlawed.
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Again, I mean, Hitler drank water, Putin's drinking water, they're all breathing air, using certain letters.
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We've got to find a way out, we've got to find something else here.
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