JEWISH JOURNAL
Russification of Ukraine and Arabization of Judea/Palestine: Two Sides of the Same Coin
by Micha Danzig
March 7, 2022

…What is surprising, however, is how few people understand the strong connection between the Russification ideology and history, which animates Putin and Russia’s latest effort to conquer and colonize Ukraine, and the Arabization ideology and history, which has animated, for over a century, the continuous violent rejection of Jewish nationhood and sovereignty in the Middle East. In Putin’s February 21 speech in which he announce Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, he said: “I would like to emphasize again that Ukraine is not just a neighboring country for us. It is an inalienable part of our own history, culture and spiritual space. READ MORE