MICHAEL WALSH AMERICAN FREE PRESS: Palestine is not the only nation to have been depopulated through an Israeli policy of ethnic cleansing, genocide and exile. Palestine and Ukraine have more in common than the casual observer might think.
Ukraine, before Washington’s regime change operation in 2014, had a population of 48.5 million, making it then Europe’s largest country.
As the last population census was conducted in 2001, calculating today’s population is based on the information available. Since 2014, 17 million Ukrainians have either been absorbed or decided to relocate to Russia.
Meanwhile, an estimated 7 million Ukrainians, mostly the young of childbearing age, have chosen either the European Union or further afield to become exiles. Very few will return to their decimated motherland.
Therefore, one can assume that Ukraine’s population has at least halved since 2014, leaving a mostly ageing population of 24 million.
To keep things in perspective, eight world cities host populations exceeding that of modern Ukraine.
RIGHT: Half of Ukraine’s population have fled to neighbouring countries
This leads to the question, why are Ukraine and Palestine being so speedily depopulated? Do these two nations have something in common?
Let us recall that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the sixth President of Iran (2007-2013), abided by Iran’s policy of refusing to recognize Israel as a legitimate state. He wanted those Jews who colonized Palestine to return to what he called ‘their fatherlands’.
Ahmadinejad did not, as was claimed by Western media, say that ‘Israel would be wiped off the face of the earth,’ a deliberate mistranslation of his native Farsi:
LEFT: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the sixth President of Iran
Specialists such as Juan Cole of the University of Michigan and Arash Norouzi of the Mossadegh Project pointed out that the original statement did not say that Israel should be wiped off the map, but instead that it would collapse.
Modern Israelis, too, are aware that if for any reason the United States can no longer provide the Jewish State with economic and military crutches, the chances of such a tiny state surviving midst a transition of the Middle Eastern to independence are remote.
Throughout history, the Jewish diaspora has fled across frontiers when threatened by change in the adopted homelands. In an increasingly hostile world and abandoned by Washington, where can the Jewish diaspora settle?
Follow the menorahs; the territory of modern-day Ukraine holds deep historical significance for Jewish communities. This is especially so, but not exclusively, for Ashkenazi Jews.
For them, Ukraine is a place of profound cultural, religious, and ancestral roots.
Jewish communities were documented in Kyiv as early as the 10th century. The Kievan Letter, written by Jews in the region, is one of the earliest records of influential Jewish life there.
The Khazar Empire, which included parts of southern Ukraine, is believed to have had a ruling class that converted to Judaism in the 8th century. While debated, it adds a layer of ancient Jewish association with the region.
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which included Ukraine (16th–18th century), was home to one of the largest Jewish populations in Europe. Jews were essential to trade, estate management, and religious life, and many Ashkenazi customs and Yiddish culture flourished.
The Hasidic movement began in Ukraine in the 18th century. Founded by Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer (the Baal Shem Tov) in Medzhybizh, Ukrainian towns like Uman and Chernobyl became spiritual centers for the Jewish diaspora.
Recognized writers of Yiddish culture like Sholem Aleichem and thinkers like Ahad Ha’am were born in Ukraine, thus contributing to the Ashkenazi intellectual and literary legacy.
Unwelcomed by the majority ethnic Russian population, life was far from easy for that part of the Jewish diaspora that had taken root in Ukraine.
During the Khmelnitsky Uprising (1648–1657), Tens of thousands of Jews were massacred by Cossack forces, marking one of the darkest chapters in Jewish history.
Ukraine still had a large Jewish population until mass emigration in the late 20th century. Many fled to Israel.
Ukraine remains central to Ashkenazi heritage. Many Jews worldwide trace their ancestry to Ukrainian shtetls.
So, while Ukraine isn’t (yet) a recognized Jewish homeland in the nationalistic sense, it’s undeniably a cornerstone of Jewish memory and identity.
Every year around Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, tens of thousands of Hasidic Jews travel to the city of Uman, Ukraine, to visit the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, a revered Hasidic leader who died in 1810.
Rabbi Nachman taught that being with him on Rosh Hashanah was of utmost spiritual importance.
Pilgrims believe that praying at his tomb can bring blessings, spiritual renewal, and even miracles. Most pilgrims come from Israel, but many also travel from the U.S., Europe, and other parts of the world.
While the majority are Breslov Hasidim, the pilgrimage has grown to include Jews from various backgrounds, even some who aren’t traditionally observant.
In 2024, around 35,000 pilgrims arrived in Uman despite warnings due to the ongoing war in Ukraine.
So, while Ukraine isn’t a homeland in the nationalistic sense, it’s undeniably a cornerstone of Jewish memory and identity. Can it be assumed, then, that modern Ukraine is deliberately being depopulated to create an alternative to Palestine? You can share this story on social media:
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Jewjewjewjewew etc.(barf) Ukraine is about money. Minerals, and agriculture. Ukraine is losing a war that never should have been started but will now keep going until russia stomps the last life out of the ukraine army. Ukraine will probably be annexed by russia. Damn all the warmongers to hell.
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level tel aviv and kiev and end the genocide.
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Thanks for this Mike. Permit me to add to it. In reality, “Ukraine” is only West of the Dnieper River and much of it occupied by different Empires in more recent times. What people are told is “Ukraine” today was cobbled together post WWI when the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires were partitioned, then handed to the newly formed USSR. Lenin doubled that gift by adding several “Soviet Socialist Republics”. Part of the narrative today is that “Ukrainians” has always lived in the East. That may be true, but should be tempered by the fact that being “Ukrainian” and Ukrainian nationalism was largely as a result of Taras Shevchenko who died in 1861. Today’s Bandarists aren’t “Neo-Nazis”, their spiritual leader is Shevchenko, not Bandera, who was only one of a line of the “next” Shevchenko. What is also missing from the current narrative is that Katherine the Great brought many Germans into “Eastern Ukraine” and Mennonites, a Dutch-German religious group were also present in “Ukraine” for over 100 years prior to the post WWI carve-up. Greeks had been present in the Black Sea Region of “Ukraine” for hundreds of years, as were other “Western” European groups. The borders were always changing in the region.
About 50 years ago, I worked with a “Russian” Jew who was among the first wave of dissidents let out of the USSR in the late 1960s. He had very “Slavic” features and kept being a Jew a secret, offering an implausible story of how he “escaped” via Poland. I jokingly called him a Deep Agent. Only when I saw his small gold chain had a small “Star of David” did I catch on. He realized I had seen it, but relaxed when I told him I didn’t care, as a Jew had married into the family. What he had to say about Ukrainians was quite uncomplimentary. We worked with several, and almost all, both male and female disliked him as a “Russian”. I learned long ago that a large chunk of “Ukrainians”, especially the ones who wear it on their sleeve, really don’t like any group. Russian, Pole, German, Jew, Hungarian, etc., it doesn’t matter, they don’t discriminate. This only adds to the problem of Zelensky stating that he wanted Ukraine to be a “Big Israel”.
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An educational summary; thank you
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White Horse = Medical Tyranny ( Pharmakeia – magic, charm, cure, potion, medicine).
Red Horse = NATO – NORTH America Terrorist Organization Vs BRICS – Global SOUTH.
(In Progress)
“That Many Nations Would Disappear From the Face of theEarth – That Russia Would Be the Instrument of ChastisementFrom Heaven For the Whole World.” Sister Lucia of Fatima 1957
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Interesting and revelatory – thanks
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aka Plan B
or nach #1031
https://archive.org/stream/the-complete-list-of-the-1030-jewish-expulsions-in-human-history/The%20Complete%20List%20of%20the%201030%20Jewish%20Expulsions%20in%20Human%20History_djvu.txt
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