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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.

It might seem strange, comrade, but it’s actually an indication that the British State is directly involved in attempting to sabotage the Palestine Action case. And when I say the British state, I mean MI6. Before she became Advocate General, Catherine Smith was a long time trustee of the John Smith Trust, named after her late father, the former leader of the Labour Party. What is that? It’s a charity which is in effect an MI6 cut-out or contractor. In the years between 2020 and 2024 when Catherine stepped down after being appointed Advocate General, the *lowest* proportion of the budget which came from the Foreign Office was 92.8%. In 3 of the five years it was 100%. The money came from the intelligence controlled ‘slush fund’, as it was described by a parliamentary committee, of the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund. The fund is overseen by the Deputy National Security Adviser in the Cabinet Office, a bona fide spook. In addition to being funded directly by British intelligence, the Trust has been attended by a variety of spooks, some of whom may indeed be ‘former’! These include Jeremy Craig Oliphant, a former MI6 operative; Margaret ‘Meta’ Ramsay, a career MI6 operative and university friend of John Smith and other Labour Party luminaries from Glasgow University; and our old friend Chris Donnelly of Integrity Initiative fame. Donnelly is a former colleague of Oliphant, and while he was running the Integrity Initiative was an Hon Colonel in the Specialist Group Military Intelligence. The integrity Initiative came to grief when it was revealed that Donnelly’s think tank was registered to a derelict mill in Fife, and was revealed to be taking state money to attack the leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn. The Scottish charity regulator concluded this was not a charitable purpose and both the think tank and the initiative were closed down. It’s interesting to note that the JST and the Integrity Initiative were funded from the same pot, the CSSF ‘slush fund’ for taking on the Russians in covert operations. All of this was run out of an obscure part of the Foreign Office called HMG Russia Unit, which was a ‘liaison point’ for covert ops against Russia and involved reps from all 7 (as it was then) British Intelligence agencies. A key element of this work was known as ‘counter disinformation’ and was run for some years by a diplomat called Andy Pryce. He gets a little shirty when described as a MI6 officer, which he denies. Nevertheless, he was clearly the handler/overseer of the Integrity Initiative and very possibly the JST too. So, perhaps the strange happenings in Edinburgh are not so strange after all?

Gordon Ramsay exposed and shut down an Israeli-owned restaurant. Caught them stealing tips and abusing staff. Every. Single. Time