Ukraine

Proving, among other things, that Jewish identity is primarily racial, not religious — even to rabbis. RABBIS from Israel and Ukraine opened an office in eastern Ukraine that will help prospective immigrants to Israel prove they are Jewish. (ILLUSTRATION: Jewish immigrants from Ukraine…

UKRAINE’S JEWS are responsible for the Euromaidan revolution that ousted their country’s pro-Russian president last year, a senior rebel leader told an audience at a Russian university last week. This is not the first time a rebel leader has said such a thing, with Alexander Zakharchenko…

Ron Paul, unlike his son Rand, is unrelenting in his opposition to the neocon warmongers — though he refrains from mentioning the Jewish connection. ON Friday the House passed a massive National Defense Authorization for 2016 that will guarantee US involvement in more wars and overseas interventions…

A UKRAINIAN journalist known for his pro-Russian views was shot dead on Thursday in Kiev, a day after the killing of a political supporter of ousted Moscow-backed President Viktor Yanukovich, driving up tension between Moscow and Kiev. Russian President Vladimir Putin said the murders were political…

RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin (pictured) warned Israel on Saturday not to supply weapons to the Ukrainian government, saying that the move would be counterproductive to efforts to reach peace in east Ukraine. “It’s the Israeli leadership’s choice. It’s their right…

by David Sims THE ECONOMIST online published an article about the desirability of getting the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) “on our side” — which expression is probably a circumlocution. What they might mean is that it would be desirable to ensnare those four…

A UKRAINIAN-BORN pianist was barred from playing at Canada’s Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) for expressing views on the situation in Ukraine via Twitter, according to the soloist herself. The move led to a social media storm tagged #LetValentinaPlay. The orchestra has officially announced…

IN 2004, Loli Kantor, an Israeli-American photographer, took a trip to Poland to learn more about what happened to her family during World War II. (ILLUSTRATION: David Fishman of the Jewish Theological Seminary says things have “never been better” for Jews in Ukraine.) Kantor’s parents…

Is this strange encounter what it seems to be — or was the author the victim of yet another false flag intelligence operation?
by David Swanson ON FRIDAY, March 20th, I spoke at the University of the District of Columbia Law School in Washington, D.C., as part of a series of teach-ins about peace…

Presented verbatim; draw your own conclusions. TO THE President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin Mr. President! We are Jewish citizens of Ukraine: businessmen, managers, public figures, scientists and scholars, artists and musicians. We are addressing you on behalf of…