Illusory fascism in Odessa

Jews defend the "Right Sector" from the manipulations of the Russian media

The “Right Sector” beat Jews in Odessa, “all attacks with the participation of the“ Right Sector ”are most often directed against the Jews” - such messages spread the Russian media in an effort to prove that the Ukrainians fighting in the Donbass are prone to anti -Semitism. The Jews themselves spoke in defense of the “Right Sector”.

This week, one of their most popular news in Russia was a story that supposedly the Right Sector declared war on Odessa Jews. Such messages appeared on the website of the Russian newspaper Izvestia and Lifenews and Zvezda TV channels.

These media talked about a man named Mikhail Mayan, who allegedly announced that over the past month, the fighters of the Right Sector severely beat more than 20 ethnic Jews. The reports say that the victims in Odessa are mainly representatives of the Jewish diaspora.

There are Jews among members of the "Right Sector"

This information was refuted by the official representative of the Jewish community of the Khabad Odessa Berl Kapulkin : “There was nothing like that. Let's start with the fact that there is no man named Mikhail Mayan among the leaders of the Odessa Jewish community. I want to emphasize: we have a suspicion that in Odessa a person with such a surname lives. We also do not remember about the beaten of Jews in Odessa. Over the past 5 years. We ourselves are interested in ... "Jews are among the members of the" Right Sector ", so it would be illogical to bring this charges to this organization," Kapulkin said in an interview with the Russian Channel "Information Service of MIR-24" .

The message that the news of the beating of Jews is a lie appeared on the official website of the Jewish community of Odessa . The news also refuted the “right sector”, which is said in the message published on the VKontakte page: “The Russian media again started a massive information attack against the“ Right Sector ”. Lie spreads on sites and information air that the“ Right Sector ”declared war on Jews in Odessa.”

In fact, for the entire existence of the "Right Sector" in the city there were no conflicts on the basis of a national racket or related to national minorities. We urge not to succumb to information provocation and not take into account any information distributed by Russian and pro -Russian media, ”the report said.

In Odessa, the poet Boris Khersonsky wrote about the beaten messages about the beating of Jews in Odessa:

The chairman of the Euro -Asian Jewish Congress, Joseph Zisels, believes that the untruthful news of the Russian media has long turned into a familiar model of propaganda and speculation. In his opinion, myths that anti -Semitism was growing in Ukraine appeared back in 2004. According to Zisels, the popularity of such manipulation is that people in Europe at the level of both conscious and subconscious, clearly react to the word "fascism". “And you no longer need to think: if someone calls someone a fascist, then this is a fascist. All! And since fascists, it means that this is bad, it means that the devil knows that and it is necessary to take some measures. This image has been chosen for a long time-in order to designate Ukraine or those people who support Ukraine, regardless of whether they are nationalists or not. Everyone who was on the Maidan, Russian media output in the role of fascists.” Yosif Zisels in an interview with Radio Liberty suggested that if most Russians support Vladimir Putin, then they blindly believe in such propaganda.

The original material on the Ukrainian Service website Radio Liberty.