Demonstrators gather at Habima Square in Tel Aviv on 20 March to attend a televised video address by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky to the Israeli Knesset (AFP)
Vanessa Beeley
Zionism has deep roots in Ukraine. Jews were a significant element in the settler colony of Odessa.
Along with a range of non Jewish colonizers they settled on land from which Muslims and others had been expelled in the settlement around Khadjibey in 1794. Ukraine, especially Odessa, was a key locus of the rise of the Zionist movement in the twentieth century.
The Revisionist leader Vladimir Jabotinsky hailed from Odessa. Zionist ambivalence about Ukrainian nationalism continues to this day. A few Ukrainian Zionists have warned of the rise of Nazi movements in Ukraine. But more generally, in the Zionist movement today there has been a concerted attempt to minimize the presence and political influence of Nazis in Ukraine.
Zionists are engaging…
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