Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday urged Jews around the world to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in which significant Jewish sites have been hit.
In a video address, Zelenskyy, who is Jewish, said: “I appeal now to all the Jews of the world — don’t you see what is happening? Therefore, it is very important that millions of Jews around the world do not remain silent now.”
The Ukrainian leader made the appeal a day after a Russian missile strike damaged the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial on the outskirts of Kyiv, where Nazi occupiers killed more than 33,000 Jews over two days in 1941.
Zelenskky claimed that under Soviet rule, Russian authorities built a TV tower and sports complex at the site of Babi Yair -” a place of prayer and remembrance… to erase the true history of Babi Yar…it’s beyond humanity.”
#UPDATE Ukraine's President Zelensky urges world's Jews to speak out after a Russian missile hit the site of a Holocaust massacre.
"I am now addressing all the Jews of the world. Don't you see what is happening?… Nazism is born in silence. So shout about killings of civilians" pic.twitter.com/7ui5YrOgIu
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) March 2, 2022
“This strike proves that for many people in Russia our Kyiv is absolutely foreign,” he said. “They don’t know a thing about Kyiv, about our history. But they all have orders to erase our history, erase our country, erase us all.”
“We all died again by Babi Yar. Although the world has promised again and again that it will never happen again. Don’t you see what is happening? That’s why it is very important now that you, millions of Jews around the world, do not stay silent. Because Nazism is born in silence. Scream about murdering of civilians, scream about murdering of Ukrainians.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem & AP)
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6 Responses
What about screaming against intermarriage which is destroying Jews all over. We should demand the Ukrainians destroy the statue they have of the Ukrainian hitler displayed in Kiev.
Fake News: the monument was NOT damaged
The statue of chmelnytski stands in Kiev,capital of Ukraine. He was the one who murdered hundreds of thousands of Jews. Google him.
Nice of him to remember that he is a jew…
I guess there are no atheists in fox holes.
Sorry Mr Ukrainian leader but we have a memory and our memory is that the Ukrainians have been absolutely positively evil to our people for thousands of years. So if I’m going to be against Russia, I’m going to be against Ukraine as well. The only ones who I’m going to be hopeful for and daven for, are the yidden who are in harm’s way..