Lavrov accuses Israel of “glorifying Nazism” and is told “Don’t lecture us”

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has accused Israel of involvement in the “glorification of Nazism”, and Israel has responded by telling Russia not to “lecture” them.

Source: Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lior Hayat on Twitter

Quote: “There is no change in Israel’s policy, which is absolutely opposed to and rejects the glorification of criminals who collaborated with the Nazis in murdering Jews. 

No party should lecture the State of Israel, Israel’s Foreign Ministry, or its diplomats about the importance of preserving the memory of the Holocaust or about the war on historical distortion.”

Background: 

  • Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Michael Brodsky stated that “It would be wrong to condition our support for and assistance to Ukraine on Ukraine [having to] stop renaming streets or calling Bandera or Melnyk heroes.” Brodsky said, “If you look at things realistically, of course that’s not going to happen.” 
  • Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova responded: “If, in Mikhail Brodsky’s opinion, Kyiv has the right to such heroes and identity, then this is a problem for the Israeli Foreign Ministry. No one has the right to such heroes.” 
  • In the spirit of Russian propaganda, she called Stepan Bandera and Andrii Melnyk [leaders of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists in the 1930s and 40s – ed.] “the spawn of hell” and “a disgrace to the people of Ukraine”, adding that “this is the glorification of Nazism”.

(C) 2023 Ukrainska Pravda

6 comments

  1. It is Zakharova who is the true “spawn of hell. The evil nazi succubus can’t open her mouth without a toxic torrent of hate and lies spewing out.

  2. Under communism, the russians have a far LARGER record of killing Jews than even the nazis, the main reason why hitler was such a horrific abomination, was because he was so efficiently fast at it, killing millions within 5 years. Not all of them Jews, though killing anyone without justification is murder. The soviets killed hundreds of millions. A total number can only be estimated because there was such large amounts, and because their regime was determined to hide their crimes. Putin’s definitely a murderer, and I’m sure he’s no less ruthless than hitler or stalin. He simply knows he can’t get away with devastation as vast as hitler or stalin, because that would mean his total destruction, AND of russia. They may face total destruction anyway, but only more slowly than if putin pursued conquest as much as the nazis.

    I pray that those russians fighting putin make a new and better name for their country.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_Soviet_Union

      • Oh, I didn’t forget about them. They’re the antagonists, the opponents of the hero, in my next book. I posted an excerpt here about how the UN’s misguided approach to a “greater good” that forsakes the average citizen, but it’s also got the chinese communists trying to manipulate things. ANY communism is dangerous, and leads to the horrors of the soviets, as well as that of the chinese. Though the communists may have varying ideas about how to pursue the teachings of marx, when they get power, it always seems to lead to the same bloody end.

  3. Mordor has no room to preach. Israel however needs to quit turning a blind eye to the horrors being carried out against Ukraine as well as the affect on the Jewish population there and in mafialand by the rashists. Nothing can be gained by appeasing putler or the sharks circling him. Right now Israel is getting leniency in attacking iranian targets, but the more the orcs become indebted to the iranians increases the likelihood of the orcs finally openly turning on them. Even if Israel wants to play pata-cake with the devil politically, they can still find ways to “back channel” much needed military assistance to Ukraine.

    • Israel is quickly losing credibility. Of all the nations that should know nazism when they see it, Israel is very quiet and very uncooperative. They welcome rubles and go blind, that’s what happens.

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