Lawyer Dershowitz called on Volodymyr Zelensky to apologize for Holocaust statements
Volodymyr Zelensky should apologize for his statement that the Ukrainians had nothing to do with the Holocaust, said Professor Emeritus of Harvard Law School Alan Dershowitz in his article in the Newsweek newspaper.
As the author noted, Zelensky “falsely denied the Ukrainian people’s involvement in the Holocaust.”
“He never once apologized for his March statement, ‘Ukrainians made their choice 80 years ago, we saved the Jews…'” He is right when he says that the Ukrainian people made a choice 80 years ago. But it was not a decision to save the Jews,” Dershowitz pointed out.
According to him, Ukrainians “almost without exception” either participated in the mass murder of Jews or “remained silent when their Jewish neighbors were detained and shot.”
” Many Ukrainians among those who pulled the trigger were recruited by the Nazis into firing squads. And very few of them saved Jews. Ukrainians were more involved in these mass murders of Jews than residents of most other countries,” said the professor.
Anti-Semitism was widespread in Ukraine, its residents “carried out pogrom after pogrom,” causing many Ukrainian Jews to emigrate to the United States and other countries, he recalled. At the same time, Zelensky, who has Jewish roots, “knows that the choice made by the Ukrainian people 80 years ago deserves not praise, but condemnation,” the author pointed out.
“In light of actual historical events, Zelensky’s lies could well be characterized as a variation on the theme of Holocaust denial or belittling it. But by denying the Ukrainians’ involvement in the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian Jews, he distorts history and perverts memory,” Dershowitz expressed his opinion.
At the same time, he added that Zelensky has the opportunity to “correct the insult he has caused to the memory of the Jews who were killed because of the immoral choices Ukrainians made 80 years ago.”
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