Russia has committed war crimes in Ukraine since its invasion on February 24. This is an ugly truth that the Russian government cannot wish away. In the past few days, the battered and bloodied bodies of more than 400 Ukrainian civilians have been found in suburbs near Kyiv recaptured from Russian forces. In particular, the […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin expected a cakewalk when he launched his misbegotten invasion of Ukraine on February 24. He assumed that his modernized armed forces would sweep across the country in a blitzkrieg, seize Kyiv, the capital, and other major cities, and declare victory. Putin was dead wrong. He and his closest associates miscalculated, thinking […]
In what is probably the greatest population upheaval since World War II, more than three million Ukrainians have fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion on February 24. The vast majority of the refugees have gone to Poland, Romania, Hungary and neighboring countries. As of March 18, 12,600 displaced Ukrainians had arrived in Israel. Of these, 3,650 […]
The Sierra Club, a non-profit environmental protection organization headquartered in California, has wisely reinstated its trips to Israel after having cancelled them under pressure from anti-Zionist groups. Palestinian and progressive activists, having accused the club of “greenwashing” Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians, pressured it to boycott Israel in what can only be described as a […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is feeling the intense, burning heat of Russia’s unwarranted and unacceptable invasion of Ukraine. The Russian army is advancing on all fronts, despite ferocious resistance by the Ukrainian armed forces, and Kyiv, the capital, is virtually surrounded. Apparently intent on extinguishing Ukraine’s independence as a sovereign state, Russian President Vladimir Putin […]
Israel is straining to preserve its finely calibrated policy regarding the current war in Ukraine. Keen to uphold its status as one the few countries maintaining cordial relations with both the combatants, Israel has been careful to offend neither Ukraine nor Russia. It’s a difficult balancing act, and whether Israel can sustain it indefinitely remains to […]
The war in Ukraine has thrown white supremacists and neo-Nazis into a tizzy. Until Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, they were inclined to be pro-Russian, admiring Russia as a white Christian country and its president, Vladimir Putin, as an authoritarian strongman who stood for traditional values. Richard Spencer, the guru of the American […]
Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s deputy prime minister and finance minister, attended a pro-Ukrainian rally in Toronto last Sunday. Amid a substantial crowd of demonstrators protesting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, she stood between two people holding a red and black scarf bearing the slogan of “Slava Ukraini” (Glory to Ukraine). A photograph of Freeland — an ethnic […]
A day after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, the Russian ambassador to Israel, Anatoly Viktorov, issued several comments on Israel’s policy vis-a-vis the current crisis. “We took note of Israel’s position,” he told the Times of Israel in an interview. “Our Israeli colleagues have repeatedly spoken about their concern for the safety of […]
Regrettably, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his corps of diplomats around the world have explicitly raised the issue of neo-Nazism and implicitly invoked the Holocaust to justify Russia’s nation-wide invasion of Ukraine. In explaining his reasoning for invading Ukraine — a sovereign country which attained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 — Putin said […]