Paola Ghirotti is an Italian photographer born in Rome, renowned for her in-depth documentary photography of Japanese cultural traditions spanning over 35 years
@GiorgiaMeloni ed il suo governo cosi come le opposizioni #EllySchlein continuano a non voler vedere la considerazione che l'attuale governo ukraine ha verso i #nazisti di #bandera che trucidarono migliaia di #ebrei
Today, as a Ukrainian-Jewish and a scholar of the Holocaust, I feel deeply ashamed.
I never could have imagined that in my country — the country where the Nazis murdered 1.5 million Jews, the country of Babyn Yar, the very symbol of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, a country that claims to be fighting for “freedom and democracy” — a Nazi collaborator and OUN leader like Andriy Melnyk would be buried with full state honors.
Men under Melnyk’s leadership served in the Auxiliary police under Nazi. They hunted Jews hiding in attics, basements, forests, and barns, desperate to survive the Holocaust. They guarded ghettos and camps. They marched Jews to execution sites. And they took part in the shootings alongside the Germans.
By the spring of 1943, the Holocaust in Ukraine was nearly complete. The Jewish neighbors were gone — murdered before the eyes, and often with the assistance, of Melnyk’s followers. And it was precisely then that Melnyk supported the creation of the Waffen-SS Galicia Division, whose members swore an oath to Adolf Hitler.
And today, the president of my country — a man whose own relatives were murdered by the Nazis — kneels before the coffin of this Nazi collaborator.
One could hardly imagine a greater humiliation for Jews. It is a humiliation for everyone who once believed that “Never Again” meant something in contemporary Ukraine — a country where militant ethnic nationalism increasingly dictates the politics of memory, and national identity.
Here is a list of the names of the 13,000 Palestinian children killed by Israel in Gaza since October 7th.
13,000 children. In just 119 days.
This video is over 7 minutes long.
Israel is not defending itself; it is committing genocide.
6Israel did it in 1948
Israel did it in 1956
Israel did it in 1967
Israel did it in 1982
Israel did it in 2002
Israel did it in 2008
Israel did it in 2014
Israel did it in 2021
Israel is currently doing it in 2023-24
76 years of genocide,but still they think Israel is the victim!