1. Bill Levinson said:

Some of my ancestors emigrated from the Ukraine, and this could be why. Then again, Tsar Nicholas II might have been the reason, as he was ruling the place at the time.

During the 1648 civil war in the Ukraine, the Ukranians engaged in vicious pogroms in which they slaughtered Jews wholesale, along with Polish Catholics, nuns, and priests. The Polish magnate Jarema Wisniowiecki (actually an ethnic Ukranian but a member of the Polish gentry) knew what to do with the Ukranians, as shown in Henryk Sienkiewicz's "With Fire and Sword." (A movie is available with English subtitles.)

2. Leonard said:

I understand that this particular Ukrainian Academy is funded and supported by the notorious antisemitic KKK American Duke who is presently on a tour of like-minded Syria (see MEMRI TV)

3. Laura said:

So did my ancestors.

4. Anatoli said:

Hi Bill,
dont be shy, you may want to add Lazar Kaganovich to the list of people who knew what to do with Ukrainians, in 1933. While number of Ukrainians, Jews and Polaks killed in 1600s is estimated, the 1932-33 number of Ukrainians killed is well known, you'll get more credit.

5. Jill Henry said:

David Duke's book Jewish Supremacism, as everyone might know, has become a best seller in Russia and the Ukraine. Duke's visit to Syria has sealed a deal to publish the book in Arabic, with endorsement from promenent Syrians, including Syria's most popular journalist. It could possibly sell millions, eclipsing the 700 thousand sold in Eastern Europe.

Here is an audio file of Duke's interview with journalist Nidal Kablan where they talk about the importance of Jewish Supremacism for the Muslim world.

Audio file of interview:
http://www.davidduke.com/mp3/nidalkabalaninterview.mp3

What can be done about this?

6. Bill Levinson said:

Anatoli, the Ukrainians were of course the victims of genocide in 1932-1933. Of course, if Bogdan Chmielnicki had not started the mess in 1648, the Polish Commonwealth and not Muscovy would have remained the dominant power in that part of the world and the Soviets would have never slaughtered seven million Ukranians.

7. Leonard said:

Anti-semitism is ingrained in the Ukrainian psyche and they have slaughtered Jews in great numbers repeately in their history - not only the 100,000 murdered in the 1640s which gave rise to the Hasidic movement as a form of desperation, but you have the slaughter of 1918-1920 of over 120,OOO Jews, plus countless pogroms, and the Ukrainian SS serving at Treblinka, Sobibor and other Nazi deathcamps used to do the dirty work of killing women and small children - ie role of Demjamuk, and the million Ukrainians who fought under General Vlasov for the Nazi's, and their role in Babi Yar the slaughter of over 100,000 Jews from Kiev in under two days. Then there is the role of Ukrainian antisemites under the Soviets and the constants terrorization of the Jewish population in the media and on the ground. Bill- the Ukrainians were never the victims of Genocide themselves as you describe, but their role in the murder of over two million Jews is part of their shameful past.It would be better for the remnants of Ukrainian Jewry to abandon this blood soiled country and emigrate to Israel where they can hold their heads up high.

8. Alex said:

I happened to be born there. Hatred of the Jews is in their blood. During the Nazi occupation of Ukraine, the locals were only too willing to mass-murder the Jews for the Germans. Ukraine is the nation of stupid drunks and degenerates.

9. Shlomo said:

Oy vey, an anti-Zionist University where David Duke is one of their professors. It's hard to believe but here is a photo of him teaching from the ADL's website. I also found out he has a Radio program where you can email him your commentaries, I was surpised he read my complaint on the air today --

David Duke teaching in Ukraine from the ADL website:
http://www.adl.org/main_Anti_Semitism_International/maup_ukraine.htm

David Duke Radio Archives
http://www.davidduke.com/?p=222

10. DK said:

The way jews outside of Israel think about Ukraine and ukrainians is just disgusting. MAUP is a neo - nazi university finansed completely by Iran, so there's no wonder why they are making such statements against Israel and the jewry. But you, jews, what's wrong with you? Where do you get this hate to Ukrainians from? Jews were living in Ukraine for thousans years side by side with Ukrainians and not always relations were good but you should stop this ugly ukrainaphobian propaganda! Look at yourself first!

11. Bill Levinson said:

DK, Jews lived happily side by side with Ukranians when Ukraine was part of the Polish Commonwealth, which had religious freedom for all people. (Even though Poland was Catholic, it welcomed Orthodox Christian Ukranians as well as Jews and Muslims, and Calvinists and Lutherans later on.) When the war in 1648 began, however, the Cossacks began to kill people for being Jews or Catholics. I am not saying, however, that all Cossacks did this; some remained loyal to the Commonwealth. Some Ukranians might in fact have been victims of the rebels themselves.

If anyone is to blame for Ukranian (and even Polish) anti-Semitism, though, it is probably the Russians. Anti-Semitism was an official part of the Tsars' policies of the 19th century. It also wouldn't surprise me if Polish jokes that portray Poles as stupid came from Tsarist propaganda organs to justify the partitions of Poland. The Russians (and Prussians) had to "prove" to the world that Poles were unfit to govern themselves.

12. Anatoli said:

Hi Bill,
some would disagree with you on Xmelnitski uprising. You saying if they just kept pulling the yoke under Polish commonwealth, everything would be ok. I am afraid that argument may backfire at you. People cannot be slaves forever, as you know. And that bucolic picture of life under Polish occupation doesnot reflect historic facts. e.g. religious freedom: Orthodox church was annihilated and Uniat church imposed instead.
As far as MAPU goes, those idiots do not represent the whole Ukraine. As I am sure your hatred of Ukrainians doesnot represent the feelings of everyone in Israel toward Ukraine.