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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Israel lobby group ADL rehabilitates Hitler's accomplices in Ukraine</h1>
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<span class="gmail-field gmail-field-author"><a href="https://electronicintifada.net/people/ali-abunimah">Ali Abunimah</a></span> -
<span class="gmail-field gmail-field-publication-date"><span class="gmail-date-display-single">17 March 2022</span></span> </p>
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<span><img src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2022-03/zumaamericasthirtythree336074.jpg?itok=TgVVMlKc×tamp=1647543856" alt="People watch a man in religious garb speak in front of a huge portrait of Stepan Bandera" title="" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img" style="margin-right: 25px;" width="392" height="261"></span><p>A
priest delivers a speech during a torchlight procession honoring Nazi
collaborator Stepan Bandera in the Ukrainian capital Kiev on 1 January
2022. Bandera’s nationalist movement directly assisted German occupation
forces in perpetrating the Holocaust during World War II.</p><small>
<span>Ukrinform</span></small><p>Israel and its lobby depend on support from the United States.</p>
<p>So when Washington goes to war, the lobby will often lend its propaganda services to the cause.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/anti-defamation-league">Anti-Defamation League</a>,
one of Israel’s top US lobby groups, is doing so now by rehabilitating
Ukrainian collaborators who helped Hitler exterminate Jews and Poles.</p>
<p>This Holocaust revisionism is motivated by the need to whitewash the
present-day, far-right Ukrainian nationalists and neo-Nazis who are
supported by the United States.</p>
<p>The reason the US, NATO and the European Union say they are sending
weapons and mercenaries to Ukraine is to help a fellow democracy defend
its independence and sovereignty against an illegal invasion by an
expansionist, megalomaniacal madman.</p>
<p>It is therefore very awkward from a Western perspective that the
Ukrainian regime is underpinned by hard-right fascists and neo-Nazis.</p>
<p>Acknowledging this fact, Western war propagandists undoubtedly fear,
would legitimize President Vladimir Putin’s claim that the Russian
invasion – which has been <a href="https://www.un.org/press/en/2022/ga12407.doc.htm">overwhelmingly condemned</a> by the UN General Assembly – is justified by a need to “de-Nazify” and demilitarize Ukraine.</p>
<p>The dilemma is summed up in an NBC News headline from earlier this month: “<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/ukraine-has-nazi-problem-vladimir-putin-s-denazification-claim-war-ncna1290946">Ukraine’s Nazi problem is real, even if Putin’s ‘denazification’ claim isn’t</a>.”</p>
<p>But most Western media will no longer even go as far as NBC News in acknowledging this reality.
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<blockquote><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Totally normal. German government broadcaster <a href="https://twitter.com/dwnews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@dwnews</a> whitewashing Nazis. <a href="https://t.co/fx4pywqt1F">https://t.co/fx4pywqt1F</a> <a href="https://t.co/IrieYfGylZ">pic.twitter.com/IrieYfGylZ</a></p>— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) <a href="https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/1503749931080818696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 15, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The current war can be <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-stop-world-war-iii/34936">traced directly to the 2014 coup in Ukraine</a>, during which the US and its allies <a href="https://jacobinmag.com/2022/02/maidan-protests-neo-nazis-russia-nato-crimea">supported</a> far-right and neo-Nazi elements.
<p>The goal was to install a US-friendly regime that would bring Ukraine
into NATO, the anti-Russia military alliance. Moscow has long seen NATO
expansion as an existential threat.</p>
<p>Key actors in the US-supported coup were neo-Nazi groups like <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27173857">Right Sector</a>, the <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-arming-neo-nazis-ukraine/24876">Azov Battalion</a> and <a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/ukrainian-militia-behind-brutal-romany-attacks-getting-state-funds/29290844.html">C14</a>.</p>
<p>They are part of a broader Ukrainian nationalist movement that
venerates Stepan Bandera, the leader of the Organization of Ukrainian
Nationalists, which collaborated with Hitler during World War II.</p>
<p>During the war, members of the OUN loyal to Bandera formed the
Ukrainian Insurgent Army, commonly known by its Ukrainian initials, UPA.
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<blockquote><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Watch Yevhen Karas
the leader of Ukraine's neo-Nazi terror gang C14's speech from Kiev
earlier this month. Straight from the horses' mouth, he dispels the many
narratives pushed by the left, the mainstream media and the State
Department. <a href="https://t.co/VWJqWPUGUp">pic.twitter.com/VWJqWPUGUp</a></p>— Alex Rubinstein (@RealAlexRubi) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealAlexRubi/status/1497747535783411714?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<h2>“Tactical” alliance with Hitler</h2>
<p>On 4 March, the Anti-Defamation League <a href="https://www.adl.org/blog/why-is-putin-calling-the-ukrainian-government-a-bunch-of-nazis">published an article</a> by Andrew Srulevitch, its director of European affairs, to minimize the Nazi problem in Ukraine.</p>
<p>The article was also promoted in a 15 March email newsletter from ADL
CEO Jonathan Greenblatt on how “anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and
other misinformation are spreading in the wake of the invasion.”</p>
<p>In order to downplay the present-day cult of Bandera and support for
Nazism in Ukraine, the ADL finds it necessary to rewrite some history –
in effect Holocaust revisionism.</p>
<p>Srulevitch’s article takes the form of a Q&A with <a href="https://www.jtsa.edu/team/david-fishman/">David Fishman</a>,
a professor of Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary.
Fishman is also a member of the academic committee of the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum.</p>
<p>“We’ve seen torchlit marches in the middle of [Kiev] with the red and
black flags of UPA … and pictures of Stepan Bandera, who allied with
the Nazis during WWII,” Srulevitch asks. “Isn’t that evidence of Nazism
in Ukraine?”</p>
<p>“For Ukrainian nationalists, UPA and Bandera are symbols of the
Ukrainian fight for Ukrainian independence. The UPA allied with Nazi
Germany against the Soviet Union for tactical – not ideological –
reasons,” Fishman responds.</p>
<p>“For Jews, however, not only is allying with the Nazis unforgivable
under any circumstance, but historians have documented that Ukrainian
nationalists participated together with Germans in the murder of many
thousands of Jews in Ukraine,” Fishman adds.</p>
<p>Fishman’s excuse that Bandera and other Nazi collaborators are “symbols” of the “fight for Ukrainian independence” mirrors the <a href="https://acwm.org/blog/myths-misunderstandings-confederate-flag/">claims</a>
from American white supremacists that their display of the Confederate
battle flag is merely to honor their “heritage” and not to celebrate a
regime that went to war to protect its “right” to enslave people from
Africa.</p>
<p>“There are neo-Nazis in Ukraine, just as there are in the US, and in
Russia for that matter,” Fishman asserts. “But they are a very marginal
group with no political influence and who don’t attack Jews or Jewish
institutions in Ukraine.”</p>
<p>In other words, there’s nothing to see here, the ADL wants us to believe.</p>
<p>But Israel lobby groups were concerned over the rise of the Ukrainian far-right before the Russian invasion.</p>
<p>“Holocaust perpetrators are the last people on Earth who deserve to
be glorified, regardless of their nationalist credentials,” Efraim
Zuroff, a regional director with the Simon Wiesenthal Center, another
pro-Israel lobby group, <a href="https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/wiesenthal-center-pans-svoboda-march-but-many-ukrainian-jews-arent-worried-386642">correctly stated</a> in 2015.</p>
<p>“This phenomenon, currently so common in post-Communist Eastern
Europe, and especially in Ukraine and the Baltics, clearly shows that
these countries don’t fully comprehend the obligations of true
democracy,” Zuroff added.</p>
<p>This condemnation came after Ukrainian nationalists held a New Year’s Eve torchlight procession in Kiev to honor Bandera.</p>
<p>But today, just like the ADL, the Simon Wiesenthal Center is, for
political expediency, denying the support for Nazism in Ukraine.</p>
<p>And also like the ADL, it is citing the fact that Ukraine’s president
Volodymyr Zelensky is Jewish as evidence that neo-Nazism is not a
concern.
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<blockquote><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Denazify <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ukraine?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Ukraine</a>? Its President is Jewish, Mr. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Putin?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Putin</a>. Naked aggression is no justification in 2022. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/russianinvasion?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#russianinvasion</a> <a href="https://t.co/IAW9HOIpNa">https://t.co/IAW9HOIpNa</a></p>— SimonWiesenthalCntr (@simonwiesenthal) <a href="https://twitter.com/simonwiesenthal/status/1496911746145001474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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However, this is no more convincing than arguing that the 2008 election
of Barack Obama as president means that racism and white supremacy have
been eliminated from the United States.
<p>Indeed, <a href="https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/adl-white-supremacist-propaganda-hits-all-time-high-in-2020">according to the ADL</a>,
the dissemination of “white supremacist propaganda” in the US surged in
2020 – four years after America’s first Black president left office.</p>
<h2>Falsifying history</h2>
<p>This rationalization, minimization and “both-sidesing” of Nazism and Holocaust crimes ought to be shocking in itself.</p>
<p>But the ADL’s claim that the Banderite alliance with Hitler was
merely “tactical” – as if that would in any way mitigate their crimes –
is also false.</p>
<p>“Although Bandera and his followers would later try to paint the
alliance with the Third Reich as no more than ‘tactical,’ an attempt to
pit one totalitarian state against another, it was in fact deep-rooted
and ideological,” journalist and author Daniel Lazare <a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/stepan-bandera-nationalist-euromaidan-right-sector/">writes in a 2015 <em>Jacobin</em> review</a> of historian Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe’s book <em><a href="https://cup.columbia.edu/book/stepan-bandera-the-life-and-afterlife-of-a-ukrainian-nationalist/9783838206844">Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist</a></em>.</p>
<p>“Bandera envisioned the Ukraine as a classic one-party state with himself in the role of führer, or <em>providnyk</em>, and expected that a new Ukraine would take its place under the Nazi umbrella.”</p>
<p>Bandera was however detained by the Nazis because he was pushing for
Ukrainian independence – something Hitler was not ready to grant. But
the alliance between the OUN and the Germans persisted.</p>
<p>“Rather than disbanding the OUN, the Nazis had meanwhile revamped it as a German-run police force,” Lazare writes.</p>
<p>“The OUN had played a leading role in the anti-Jewish pogroms that
broke out in Lviv and dozens of other Ukrainian cities on the heels of
the German invasion, and now they served the Nazis by patrolling the
ghettoes and assisting in deportations, raids and shootings.”</p>
<p>In 1943, Banderite members of the OUN formed their own militia, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, or UPA.</p>
<p>The UPA began the ethnic cleansing and extermination of Poles from territories they saw as belonging to Ukraine.</p>
<p>Citing historians, Lazare writes that “the UPA killed close to
100,000 Poles between 1943 and 1945 and that Orthodox priests blessed
the axes, pitchforks, scythes, sickles, knives and sticks that the
peasants it mobilized used to finish them off.”
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<blockquote><p dir="ltr" lang="en">This is the footage
of Lviv Jewish pogrom on June 30th, 1941. It was organized by Nazis and
Ukrainian nationalists from Bandera’s OUN with active participation of
local population. Thousands of Jews were murdered, wounded, raped,
robbed. <a href="https://t.co/cg15I8Slzc">pic.twitter.com/cg15I8Slzc</a></p>— Eduard Dolinsky (@edolinsky) <a href="https://twitter.com/edolinsky/status/1145257870394580994?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
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At the same time, the UPA’s attacks on Jews “continued at such a
ferocious level that Jews actually sought the protection of the
Germans,” Lazare writes.
<p>“The Banderite bands and the local nationalists raided every night,
decimating the Jews,” a survivor cited by Rossoliński-Liebe testified in
1948. “Jews sheltered in the camps where Germans were stationed,
fearing an attack by Banderites. Some German soldiers were brought to
protect the camps and thereby also the Jews.”</p>
<h2>Bandera resurrected</h2>
<p>This horrifying history has a direct bearing on events today.</p>
<p>After World War II and with the start of the Cold War, the US and its
allies embraced the Banderites, many of whom went into exile in the
West, <a href="https://yasha.substack.com/p/episode-1-alex-boykowich-the-ukrainian">especially in Canada</a>.
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<blockquote><p dir="ltr" lang="en">No biggie: the
Ukrainian Canadian Congress—a powerful lobby group driven by a
nationalist-fascist ideology—celebrates Ukrainian Nazis who served in
the Waffen-SS Galizien Division. <a href="https://t.co/n21QaKSPYs">pic.twitter.com/n21QaKSPYs</a></p>— Yasha Levine (@yashalevine) <a href="https://twitter.com/yashalevine/status/1125795029526700032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p dir="ltr" lang="en">PS: If you want the
history of Ukrainian participation in the Waffen-SS and attempts by the
Ukrainian diaspora to turn it into a story of courageous resistance,
read this by Per Anders Rudling: <a href="https://t.co/PlpvNqi13n">https://t.co/PlpvNqi13n</a></p>— Yasha Levine (@yashalevine) <a href="https://twitter.com/yashalevine/status/1125797332086341632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Since 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed and Ukraine became
independent, and even more so in the last few years, the cult of Bandera
has re-emerged with a vengeance.
<p>Far from being marginal, it is fully supported by Ukrainian state institutions.</p>
<p>In what NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/ukraine-has-nazi-problem-vladimir-putin-s-denazification-claim-war-ncna1290946">calls</a>
an “ominous development,” Ukraine “has in recent years erected a glut
of statues honoring Ukrainian nationalists whose legacies are tainted by
their indisputable record as Nazi proxies.”</p>
<p>Such monuments can be found all over western Ukraine from <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/pm99Vbnzfj6HntQj9">Lviv</a> to <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/8f4fhXcwZmvF9kzt8">Ternopil</a> to <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/y3F8QBy7RbH7a19e7">Ivano-Frankivsk</a> and many small towns in between.</p>
<p>In 2016, the city council in Kiev <a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-kyiv-avenue-renamed-moscow-to-bandera/27844918.html">voted overwhelmingly</a> to rename the Ukrainian capital’s Moscow Avenue in honor of Bandera.</p>
<p>Eduard Dolinsky, the director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, has
for years documented how Bandera is regularly celebrated with statues,
banners and ceremonies:
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<blockquote><p dir="ltr" lang="en">I’ve been following <a href="https://twitter.com/edolinsky?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@edolinsky</a>,
head of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, for years as he has
relentlessly documented the present-day glorification of Ukrainian
nationalists and fascists who collaborated with Hitler. He tweeted this
just two weeks ago. Follow him and learn. <a href="https://t.co/rejmQV0FZh">https://t.co/rejmQV0FZh</a></p>— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) <a href="https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/1497318799938396168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Members of Kyiv City
Council singing «Our father is Bandera» after renaming the WWII hero
Nikolay Kuznetsov street into Oles Babiy street - the Nazi collaborator,
antisemite and Holocaust perpetrator. Bandera is leader of OUN that
murdered tens of thousand peaceful Poles and Jew. <a href="https://t.co/0FaCAqMKCC">pic.twitter.com/0FaCAqMKCC</a></p>— Eduard Dolinsky (@edolinsky) <a href="https://twitter.com/edolinsky/status/1456563661896564740?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 5, 2021</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Ukraine’s military
paratroopers singing «Our father is Bandera, our mother is Ukraine».
Stepan Banderf is the leader of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists
that actively participated in Holocaust and murdered some 100 thousand
peaceful Poles in 1943-44. <a href="https://t.co/WlpK2LRno0">pic.twitter.com/WlpK2LRno0</a></p>— Eduard Dolinsky (@edolinsky) <a href="https://twitter.com/edolinsky/status/1452916389719719939?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2021</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p dir="ltr" lang="en">The Ternopil State
Regional Council building is decorated with huge portrait of Stepan
Bandera - WWII leader of Ukrainian nationalists that heavily
participated in Holocaust and perpetrated ethnic cleansing of peaceful
Poles population in 1943-44. <a href="https://t.co/4N5AfVcnRN">pic.twitter.com/4N5AfVcnRN</a></p>— Eduard Dolinsky (@edolinsky) <a href="https://twitter.com/edolinsky/status/1476825282346733580?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2021</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Entrance to a
shopping mall in Khmelnitsky is decorated with portrait of Stepan
Bandera and inscription “Our father is Bandera”. <a href="https://t.co/eZkPMQCPkY">pic.twitter.com/eZkPMQCPkY</a></p>— Eduard Dolinsky (@edolinsky) <a href="https://twitter.com/edolinsky/status/1476959204489445383?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The Ukrainian ambassador in Germany, Andrij Melnyk, even bragged in 2015
that he “laid down flowers on the tomb of our hero Stepan Bandera”
during a visit to Munich.
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<blockquote><p dir="ltr" lang="en">At the outset of my visit to Munich met with UKR community & laid down flowers on the tomb of our hero Stepan Bandera</p>— Andrij Melnyk (@MelnykAndrij) <a href="https://twitter.com/MelnykAndrij/status/592635676258148352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<h2>Potential for horrifying blowback</h2>
<p>With the US and Europe arming and supporting the government in Kiev,
all this must be buried along with the ample evidence of support for
Nazism and fascism in present-day Ukraine.</p>
<p>Acknowledging this reality is not the same as claiming that 40
million Ukrainians are Nazis or that the country deserves to be
attacked.</p>
<p>Nonetheless it is crucial for people in the US, EU and NATO countries to know that their governments are <a href="https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/canadian-officials-who-met-with-ukrainian-unit-linked-to-neo-nazis-feared-exposure-by-news-media-documents">colluding with</a>, as well as reportedly <a href="https://declassifieduk.org/ukraine-neo-nazis-pictured-with-uk-made-rocket-launchers/">arming</a> and <a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/far-right-extremists-in-ukrainian-military-bragged-about-canadian-training-report-says-1.5631304">training</a> far-right and Nazi elements that are definitely not “marginal.”</p>
<p>On top of the moral revulsion that allying with Nazis – any Nazis –
should provoke, it is a strategy that is bound to produce horrifying
blowback, even if an escalating conflict in Ukraine does not <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-stop-world-war-iii/34936">lead to nuclear war</a>.</p>
<p>In 2019 – before it became politically necessary to whitewash them –
the ADL itself warned that an “extremist group called the Azov Battalion
has ties to neo-Nazis and white supremacists” and issued a report on
how the Ukrainian militia was trying to “connect with like-minded
extremists from the US.”
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<blockquote><p dir="ltr" lang="en">This Ukrainian
extremist group, called The Azov Battalion, has ties to neo-Nazis and
white supremacists. Our latest report on international white supremacy
details how they try to connect with like-minded extremists from the US:
<a href="https://t.co/GtvssxwzbN">https://t.co/GtvssxwzbN</a> <a href="https://t.co/gGHMM8L46k">https://t.co/gGHMM8L46k</a></p>— ADL (@ADL) <a href="https://twitter.com/ADL/status/1176238081688702981?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Today, the Azov Battalion, fully integrated into Ukraine’s National Guard, is <a href="https://declassifieduk.org/ukraine-neo-nazis-pictured-with-uk-made-rocket-launchers/">reportedly already receiving</a> weapons supplied by Western countries.
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<blockquote><p dir="ltr" lang="en">A shipment of NLAW grenade launchers and instructors from <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NATO?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NATO</a> countries arrived in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kharkiv?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Kharkiv</a>. The Azov regiment was the first to learn about new weaponry <a href="https://t.co/CCzjN40rW7">pic.twitter.com/CCzjN40rW7</a></p>— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) <a href="https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1501171543371665408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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American and European far-right extremists are <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/fighting-russia-ukraine-sadly-appeals-far-right-extremists-n1290901">flocking to Ukraine</a> to join their neo-Nazi brothers in arms.
<p>When these battle-hardened race warriors return home, it will be
Muslims, Jews and anyone else they consider not to be truly “European”
or “American” who will likely pay the price.</p>
<p>It may seem surprising that an Israel lobby group claiming to fight
bigotry against Jews and others would help to whitewash Nazis. But the
alliance between Zionism, anti-Semitism and fascism <a href="https://bennorton.com/moderate-rebels-transcript-zionism-anti-semitism-joseph-massad/">goes back a century</a>.</p>
<p>The ADL may also be taking a leaf from Benjamin Netanyahu’s shameless
historical distortions and fabrications. In 2015, when he was still
Israel’s prime minister, Netanyahu <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/why-benjamin-netanyahu-trying-whitewash-hitler">attempted to exonerate Hitler</a> and blame the Holocaust instead on Palestinians.</p>
<p>Nor is it surprising that the ADL, which <a href="https://merip.org/1993/07/adls-spy-ring/">spied</a> <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-04-21-mn-25487-story.html">for</a> apartheid South Africa in the 1980s, would tacitly join forces with neo-Nazis and white supremacists.</p>
<p>Nonetheless it is still hard to fathom the cynicism it takes even for
an Israel lobby group to brand almost any support for Palestinian
rights as “anti-Semitic” while it helps rehabilitate Hitler’s Holocaust
accomplices.</p>
<p><em>Ali Abunimah is executive director of The Electronic Intifada.</em></p> <h3>
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