{"id":176581,"date":"2020-05-12T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T03:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/05\/12\/the-ukraine-is-being-the-ukraine-again\/"},"modified":"2020-05-12T22:14:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T03:14:00","slug":"the-ukraine-is-being-the-ukraine-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/05\/12\/the-ukraine-is-being-the-ukraine-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ukraine is Being the Ukraine Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of an investigation into &#8220;Organized Crime&#8221;, a senior Ukrainian law enforcement official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/world-news\/europe\/police-officer-requests-official-list-of-all-jews-in-ukrainian-city-sparking-fury-1.8837491\">demanded a list names, addresses, and phone numbers of all Jews in the city of Kolomyya<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, there is noting at all suspicious or antisemitic about this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A Ukrainian Jewish group accused the nation\u2019s police force of \u201copen anti-Semitism\u201d after a high-ranking police official requested a list of all Jews in the western city of Kolomyya as part of an inquiry into organized crime.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The official request to the head of Kolomyya\u2019s Jewish community is dated February 18, 2020, according to a photograph of the document that Eduard Dolinsky, director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, shared on Twitter Sunday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cPlease provide us the following information regarding the Orthodox Jewish religious community of Kolomyya, namely: The organization\u2019s charter; list of members of the Jewish religious community, with indication of data, mobile phones and their places of residence,\u201d read the letter.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The letter was signed by Myhaylo Bank, a high-ranking officer in the national police force who handles organized crime. The letter did not explain his unit\u2019s particular interest in Kolomyya\u2019s Jews.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They just need this information so as to smoothly conduct the annual Stepan Bandera memorial march and pogrom.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing to see here, move along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of an investigation into &#8220;Organized Crime&#8221;, a senior Ukrainian law enforcement official demanded a list names, addresses, and phone numbers of all Jews in the city of Kolomyya. Yeah, there is noting at all suspicious or antisemitic about this: A Ukrainian Jewish group accused the nation\u2019s police force of \u201copen anti-Semitism\u201d after a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[546,506,364,441,526],"class_list":["post-176581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antisemitism","tag-bigotry","tag-evil","tag-former-soviet-union","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}