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UKRAINIAN JEWS PUSH BACK AGAINST PUTIN’S ‘NEO-NAZI’ CLAIM AS THEY GEAR UP FOR
BATTLE


TAKING UP ARMS TO DEFEND THEIR HOMES ALONGSIDE THEIR FELLOW COUNTRYMEN, MANY
JEWISH VOLUNTEERS REJECT THE CLAIM THAT UKRAINE IS A HOTBED OF ANTISEMITISM

By Dinah Spritzer 6 March 2022, 11:16 am Edit
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Konstantyn Batozsky, right, stands with fellow Ukrainians in Donetsk. (Courtesy
of Batozsky)

JTA — Konstantyn Batozsky believes he is on a list of so-called “neo-Nazis” to
be rounded up “Gestapo-style” and “exterminated” by Russian forces seeking to
enter Kyiv.

Batozsky, a Jew from eastern Ukraine, said he was informed about the “bounty on
his head” by Ukrainian intelligence sources. But as a longtime and avowed
Ukrainian nationalist who has collaborated with a paramilitary group that has a
reputation for including extremists, he knows that it’s people like him that
Russian President Vladimir Putin was talking about when he cited a need for
“denazification” as a pretext for invading his country.

“I have been staying underground away from my apartment where the Russians will
try to find me,” Batozsky said from a makeshift bunker preparing for what
appears to be an imminent invasion as bombs rained down outside the city center.



“I am happy that I’m alive,” he reflected, as he coordinated efforts to get
much-needed supplies to the Ukrainian army. “It now feels like every day could
be the last.”

Initially cheerful in the early days of the war as the Ukrainians were
surprisingly resilient against the much bigger Russian army, Batozsky now
sounded more worried. And angry.

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“The Russians are advancing and the West is not helping. Just words are not
enough,” he lamented. Batozky pleaded for Western countries to intervene
militarily.

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with the head of Russia’s
Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, a big business lobby group, at the
Kremlin in Moscow, on March 2, 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/AFP)

Among those taking up arms for the first time as volunteers for the civilian
army include Jews like Batozsky, who was passionately devoted to the Ukrainian
national cause in his native Donetsk years before Russia decided to wage war on
the entire country. He was a former adviser to the governor of Donetsk, Serhiy
Taruta, now a member of the Ukrainian parliament.

Donetsk is one of two eastern regions where pro-Russian separatists, supported
by the Russian military, clashed with the Ukrainian forces from 2014 to 2015.
The simmering conflict was the precursor for the current Russian invasion as
Donetsk and Luhansk declared independence, which is not recognized by Ukraine.

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It might seem perplexing to observers in the United States and beyond that Jews
would embrace Ukrainian nationalism, which some of its opponents — including
Putin — say is tinged with antisemitism.

“There was definitely a Jewish memory of anti-Jewish pogroms conducted by
Ukrainians,” said Sergiy Petukhov, Ukraine’s former deputy minister of European
Integration whose mother and grandfather live in Israel. Also a native of
Donetsk, Petukhov describes himself as a Ukrainian with Jewish ancestry, “like
our current president,” he said, referring to Volodymyr Zelensky.

Ukraine’s history of antisemitism goes far beyond pogroms. In their efforts to
exterminate Jews, the Nazis were significantly aided by Ukrainians during World
War II, according to several historians.

More recently, some of the initial paramilitary fighters against the
Russian-backed takeover in Ukraine’s east, such as the Azov Battalion, were
extremists and ultranationalists who displayed Nazi symbols.

Konstantyn Batozsky smiles in front of a military vehicle in Donetsk, Ukraine,
in 2014. (Courtesy of Batozsky)

“I know it’s hard for Jews abroad to understand, but these actions were intended
as anti-Russian, not anti-Jewish,” Petukov said. “And when it comes to those
supporting Ukrainian sovereignty and culture, this is really a tiny element.”

Now part of the national guard, the battalion of 900 to 1,500 members publicly
claims to eschew all Nazi ideology.

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Batozsky said he worked closely with the Azov Battalion during the 2014-15
conflict behind the scenes as a political consultant in Donetsk. It is this
work, and his outspoken defense of Ukrainian efforts to defeat the separatists,
that he says put him on the Russian hit list — and also that makes him confident
that Russian charges of neo-Nazis in Ukraine are inaccurate.

“They were soccer hooligans and wanted attention, so yeah, I was shocked when I
saw guys with swastika tattoos,” he said about the Azov members he got to know.
“But I talked with them all the time about being Jewish and they had nothing
negative to say. They had no anti-Jewish ideology.”

He insists that the image of Ukraine as a hotbed of antisemitism is absurd.

“I don’t practice, but still everyone knows I am Jewish — I have such a Jewish
face! And I never experienced antisemitism from Ukrainians,” he insisted. “The
military guys I am working with now really don’t care that I am a Jew.”

He does not have similar feelings toward his Russian neighbors. “I did have a
Jew-hating Russian first-grade teacher who mockingly called my long hair payos,”
recalled Batozky, using the Hebrew term for the long side curls kept by many
Hasidic men. And he said he heard more slurs against Jews from Russians Moscow
State University, which he attended in the 1990s, then he ever heard back home.

Daniel Kovzhun, a Jew from Kyiv who ran logistics during the war in Donetsk for
paramilitary units, described a similar experience.

“There were Orthodox Jews in Azov,” he said. “I know because I was there on the
battle lines. No one cared who was Jewish, we cared about keeping our country
together.”

Like Batozsky, Kovzhun, who lived and studied in Israel before returning to
Kyiv, has joined the newly formed civilian army in Kyiv, the Territorial Defense
Forces — an overnight volunteer force that has attracted Jewish fighters across
the country, and even from abroad.

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A director of advertising commercials who says he has easily transitioned into
directing “war communications,” Kovzhun believes many of the Jews in Ukraine are
actively supporting the country’s defense.

“The Russians are committing atrocities here and Ukrainian Jews are not silent
when injustice is going on. This is what being Jewish is all about,” he said.

A child evacuates the city of Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, during heavy shelling
and bombing on March 5, 2022, ten days after Russia launched a military invasion
on Ukraine. (Aris Messinis / AFP)

Last week the Ukrainian government provided more than 20,000 guns of varying
size and shape to ordinary civilians in the capital who have never fired a shot.

Among them is Batozsky, who has acquired a Kalashnikov, although he admits that
he has “no experience shooting, assembling or disassembling a gun.”

In recent days, as Kyiv has come under siege, Batozsky has been working around
the clock. “Together with friends we created a volunteer depot in a basement
where we collect everything the soldiers need and distribute them,” he said.

Like many other Ukrainians interviewed by JTA in cities awaiting siege, Batozsky
said public morale was very high.

“In terms of human relations, it is extraordinary. People are really caring
towards one another. We all share whatever we have.”

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He said the situation at shops reminded him of his Soviet childhood. “The stores
are open but the shelves are mostly empty,” he said.

But as in Soviet times, residents’ ingenuity is providing succor.

“Women are mixing Molotov cocktails and then they bake piroshki, small pies that
can last a long time, and bring them to the soldiers. Small businesses deliver
drinking water, pharmaceutical businesses are giving us medicine,” Batozsky
said. “No one is sitting and doing nothing. The scariest place in Kyiv right now
is at home with [a] laptop.”



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