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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.

> Be Itamar Ben-Gvir > Join a hate/terror group as a teenager > Steal Itzack Rabin’s car emblem > “We got to his car, we’ll get him too” > Weeks later Rabin is assassinated > Chance of Peace destroyed 
> Dozens of indictments & convictions for racism & terrorism
> Portrait of *Mass Murderer* Baruch Goldstein in your living room > Baruch killed 29 Palestinians..
> BARRED from IDF as “too dangerous”
> Somehow becomes a lawyer anyway > Defends radicals suspected of Jewish terror & hate crimes. > Rise as the ultimate provocateur: > Temple Mount visits, “death to Arabs” > Appointed National Security Minister
> Hand over the police to the far-right > Push for Palestinian death penalty > First racial murder policy since Nazis > Noose birthday cake & champagne to *celebrate* Palestinian death penalty
> Latest stunt: taunt zip-tied activists > France BANS you from the entire country within days. The most hateful man in the room didn’t get cancelled. He got promoted. Now even international allies are forced to start drawing the line. Welcome to Israeli politics 2026.

A note on the possibility of Lebanon being “included” in the agreement between the U.S. and the Islamic regime: any deal that includes Lebanon at all is a strategic failure. Lebanon and Israel are both sovereign countries that aren’t involved in these negotiations. Furthermore, the U.S. is not involved in a conflict in Lebanon. Both the U.S. and the Islamic republic are in no position to be dictating to either Lebanon OR Israel what will happen with the fight against the regime’s terror proxy Hezbollah. To include Lebanon is to tacitly accept the Islamic regime’s colonialist behavior and regional interference.