Israel is outraged by the march in honor of Bandera in Ukraine
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Israel has condemned the march in honor of one of the organizers of the nationalist movement in Ukraine, Stepan Bandera. Such a march is traditionally traditional supporters of the figure in day him birth January 1.
The relevant statement was made by the Israeli embassy in Ukraine on Twitter, calling the march “nationalist.”
“The glorification of those who support Nazi ideology tarnishes the memory of Holocaust victims in Ukraine. We demand an investigation into the anti-Semitic acts that took place during the march, according to a law passed in 2021,” the statement said.
The embassy refers to a law passed in September 2020 that outlawed anti-Semitism and made it accountable for any manifestation.
What I say in Ukraine
This is not the first time that Israel has criticized the Bandera figure in Ukraine, accusing him of collaborating with Nazi Germany during World War II.
Earlier, the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted that “each nation and each state independently determines and honors its heroes.”
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At the same time, the industry created that Ukraine’s friendly and partnership relations with Israel were “the most important asset, the importance of which is difficult to overestimate.”
“Civilized nations must be based on the principle of honoring all the dead, and discussions in this area should continue at the level of historians and experts, not politicians,” – said in a statement by the Foreign Ministry in 2020.
Who is Bandera?
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Stepan Bandera was the leader and one of the organizers of the Ukrainian nationalist movement in Western Ukraine.
From 1940 he headed the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. During World War II he spent several years in a German concentration camp.
He was assassinated in 1959 in Munich, West Germany by KGB agent Bohdan Stashynsky.
The Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance insists that Stepan Bandera, like Romanovych, fought for Ukraine’s independence and cannot be considered an accomplice of the Nazis.
