{"id":178558,"date":"2018-10-26T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/10\/26\/the-ukraine-is-being-the-ukraine-again-2\/"},"modified":"2018-10-26T19:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T00:10:00","slug":"the-ukraine-is-being-the-ukraine-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/10\/26\/the-ukraine-is-being-the-ukraine-again-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ukraine is Being the Ukraine Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out a prominent Ukrainian politician is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2018\/10\/23\/news-opinion\/ukrainian-politician-celebrates-cossack-pogroms-facebook\/amp\">celebrating Cossack pogroms against Jews<\/a>, because \u2026\u2026\u2026 the Ukraine:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A regional leader of the Svoboda far-right party in Ukraine posted on Facebook a picture of a Cossack beating a Jew with a bloody flail, along with a poem celebrating the \u201cthreshing.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Yuri Gorbinko, head of the party in Fastiv, a municipality near Kiev, posted the picture earlier this month, Eduard Dolinsky, the head of Ukrainian Jewish Committee, wrote on the same social network.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">It shows a man dressed in traditional garb of the Cossacks, a Slavic group that lived in Eastern Ukraine and some parts of Russia that was responsible for countless pogroms against Jews and other minority groups well into the 20th century.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The picture came with a short poem extolling agricultural work, including \u201cthreshing.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Jewish figure, dressed in Hasidic style, is on his knees looking up in horror at the Cossack. A second figure, a disfigured blond-haired man, possibly representing Polish people, is seen lying in a pool of blood. A third individual, possibly Russian, is holding up his arms defensibly.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For some reason, these are our allies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out a prominent Ukrainian politician is celebrating Cossack pogroms against Jews, because \u2026\u2026\u2026 the Ukraine: A regional leader of the Svoboda far-right party in Ukraine posted on Facebook a picture of a Cossack beating a Jew with a bloody flail, along with a poem celebrating the \u201cthreshing.\u201dYuri Gorbinko, head of the party in &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":[546,506,441],"class_list":["post-178558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antisemitism","tag-bigotry","tag-former-soviet-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178558"}],"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=178558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}