Ukraine – A Ukrainian lawmaker and war hero used a word usually translated as “kikes” in complaining that Jews wield excessive power in her country.
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Nadiya Savchenko, a fighter jet pilot who was elected to parliament in 2014 while she was still being held as a prisoner of Russia, made the statements on Saturday during a televised interview for the 112 station and insisted they were not indicative of anti-Semitic bias.
Savchenko was asked to address criticism that in a television interview earlier this month, she failed to condemn the anti-Semitic statements of a caller with whom she seemed to agree.
During the 112 interview on Saturday, which was conducted in Ukrainian, Savchenko said, “I have nothing against Jews. I do not like ‘kikes.’” She later said Jews possess “80 percent of the power when they only account for 2 percent of the population.”
In expressing neutrality to Jews, she used the word “evreiv,” which speakers both of Ukrainian and Russian is a neutral designation. But later she used the term “zhidiv,” which in Russian is a pejorative for Jews, akin to “kike” in English.
Some Ukrainians claim the word “zhid” is the standard designation for a Jew in their language, though leaders of the Ukrainian Jewish community insist is offensive to Jews in both languages.
In the same interview, Savchenko cited the fact that Ukraine’s prime minister, Volodymyr Groysman, is Jewish and claimed that the country’s president, Petro Poroshenko, also has Jewish roots along with Yulia Tymoshenko, a former prime minister and a leader of the nation’s Orange Revolution.
The ancestries of both Proshenko and Timoshenko have been the subject of speculation in Ukraine and beyond.
During the earlier interview on March 21 for OneNews, Savchenko agreed in principle with a caller who inveighed against a “Jewish takeover of Ukraine.”
She replied: “Indeed, part of the ruling establishment in Ukraine does not possess distinctly Ukrainian blood and we need to talk about it and act.”
Russia arrested and tried Savchenko for her role as a Ukrainian soldier in fighting between Ukrainian troops and Russian-baked separatists in 2014 near the Ukrainian border city of Donetsk. Russian judges said she was responsible for the slaying of two journalists. She was released in a prisoner exchange in 2016.
Her lead defense lawyer in Russia during the trial was the human rights attorney Mark Feigin, who is Jewish. Feigin said he had been detained and harassed repeatedly by authorities for defending Savchenko.
If the Ukrainians/Russians wouldn’t have tried so hard to “russify” the Jews then there wouldn’t be so many people in the Ukrainian government with Jewish roots
Only 80%?? We have 99% influence and power in Uman today.
What can one expect from the Ukrainians? During World War Two, they even disgusted the Nazis (if that was possible), with their barbarism. They had murder squads called Ustashi, who performed savage acts on Jewish girls. It was no accident that the massacre of thousands of Jews took place at Babi Yar. If one travels to Babi Yar today, they are not exactly welcomed by the local populace; very little has changed in seventy five years. Nadiya Savchenko is merely a product, of the hatred of Jews, which has always existed in the Ukraine. Incidentally, when I saw that photo of her, it reminded me of a remark which Jackie Mason once made of a government official, when he stated “This is a woman”?
Look, she even had a nice Jewish boy as a lawyer.
This is a typical Ukranian, Russian or Belorussian “hero”.
Till this day the biggest national hero in all those 3 countries is Bogdan Chmelnitzki, he and his gang killed hundreds of thousands Jews, (I believe we call it “shmad Tach v’tat).
They called a city after him in Ukraine, they called streets and put monuments after him in Ukraine and Belarus (maybe Russia).
He is the “liberator”, (he should burn in hell).
So what else do you expect from them?
Most of their population hate Jews, and blame Jews for that.
She later said Jews possess “80 percent of the power when they only account for 2 percent of the population.” Of course, what does she think, that cholera, that Jews are like her drunken brethren walking around dazed their entire life, no, Jews are educated, intelligent and smart, to name a few and use that positively wherever they reside. That this nevailah is jealous of that, that’s her problem !
That’s the ‘secret of the Jews’, never have so few, done so much, for so many !!!
This MACASHAIFA should know, that even though we are less that 1% of the worlds population we are the recipients of 20% of all the Nobel awards for, economics, agriculture etc., to name a few !!! The CHOSEN PEOPLE !!!!
what else is new ay ukraine yemach shmum
distinctly Ukrainian blood
yeah, the real stuff: a mixture of slavic, tartar, kazar (oops), german and who knows what else. But with one common denominator – Jewish blood on their hands
Let’s not forget that their close relatives, the Russians, who created the most anti Semitic forgery, “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”. Hitler and Streicher, ym”s quoted from this forgery to justify their virulent brand of anti Semitism. May they all rot in h___!