Ali Abunimah is now on bluesky sur X :
I couldn’t let Canada’s celebration of a 98-year-old Nazi SS veteran pass without comment, especially after Canada condemned Mahmoud Abbas’ recent comments about the Holocaust. My latest:
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Canada hails Nazi SS veteran from Ukraine as “hero”
▻https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/canada-hails-nazi-ss-veteran-ukraine-hero“We have here in the chamber today … a Ukrainian Canadian war veteran from the Second World War who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians, and continues to support the troops today, even at his age of 98,” Rota said to raucous hoots and a standing ovation.
Rota added that he was “very proud” that the man, Yaroslav Hunka, lived in his own Ontario electoral district.
“He’s a Ukrainian hero, a Canadian hero, and we thank him for all his service,” the speaker added to more boisterous applause.
In fact, Hunka is a veteran of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS – part of Hitler’s notorious Schutzstaffel, the elite troops who perpetrated some of the worst genocidal crimes of World War II.
As an article in The Forward points out, “this is the same unit that is honored by controversial monuments in Canada, Australia, and, as the Forward recently exposed, the suburbs of Philadelphia and Detroit. Jewish groups have called for their removal.”
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