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[quote=Anonymous]This Jewish blogger discusses thoughts on NeoNazi Ukrainian soldier’s  tour of  Israel

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/israeli-government-welcomes-azov-battalion-leader-as-honored-guest/

These are our friends .

I found myself thinking of my ancestors and the millions of Jews slaughtered at the hands of Nazis. What would they think if they could see a country that (falsely) claims to represent world Jewry inviting such a person as a welcomed guest? The red-carpet treatment given to the “hero” of the Azov Battalion, Illia Samoilenko, is an insult to the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust.

Up until the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Azov Battalion was recognized the world over as a militant right-wing, violent organization with large numbers of Nazis and fascists among its members and within its leadership. In fact, the FBI considered the Azov Battalion as the center of the international Nazi movement. Militant right-wingers from around the world would travel to Ukraine to train with like-minded members of the battalion.

The Azov Battalion was founded in 2014 by the neo-Nazi group known as “Patriots of Ukraine” (today known as National Corps) to fight against ethnic Russians in the Eastern part of the country. Its troops have been accused of war crimes by the United Nations and a number of international human rights organizations, such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. They have routinely committed acts of violence against ethnic Russians, Roma, and Jews. In fact, in 2014, one of Kiev’s major rabbis told Jews to leave the country if possible because they were no longer safe.

The Azov Battalion never attempted to hide their Nazi roots. The battalion’s iconography consists of several Nazi logos, such as the Nazi Sonnenrad (otherwise known as the “Black Sun”).

However, once the Russian military invaded Ukraine, the United States and its allies decided that the Azov Battalion was a valuable ally in their anti-Russia crusade. They have since gone to great lengths to try and polish the turd that is the battalion’s reputation. Azov members routinely flank Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, as he is paraded around the world as some sort of folk hero. We are told that Azov members can’t be Nazis because they are standing next to the Jewish president of Ukraine, as if “tokenism” was ever a good cover for racists and chauvinists.

In the United States and Europe, corporate media outlets are full of articles and news stories trying to present Azov members as “the nice kind of Nazis.” Their members are flown around the world to give speaking tours, shake hands, and kiss babies.

Samoilenko openly admits that Azov was founded by Nazis, but says that they all left the battalion and that the origination has “grown up.” He hopes that the fact that the members of the unit still use Nazi symbols and slogans will go unnoticed.

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