Israel asked Maria Zakharova “not to lecture him” about the Holocaust

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel responded to the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Maria Zakharova, who previously accused Israel of “supporting Nazism” in Ukraine. The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel, Lior Hayat, published application for the press in the official Twitter. It states that no country should “lecture Israel, its Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its diplomats about how it preserves the memory of the Holocaust.”

The reason for Zakharova’s speech was an interview with the Israeli ambassador to Kyiv Michael Brodsky on the Israeli portal Iton TV. In it, Brodsky stated that despite the difference in the views of Jews and Ukrainians on Stepan Bandera, Roman Shukhevich and Andrey Melnyk, Ukraine is now “in search of its identity, in search of its heroes.” “Of course, we don’t like these heroes, but for the majority of Ukrainians, these are heroes who fought for independence,” the ambassador noted. He also said that in the current war between Russia and Ukraine, Israel continues and will continue to support Ukraine.

In her Telegram channel, Maria Zakharova reminded Brodsky of the OUN’s anti-Semitic policy and accused Brodsky of blasphemy. “That’s what those who sponsored Hitler in the 1930s argued. By the way, mainly Anglo-Saxons,” she wrote and added: “If, according to Mikhail Brodsky, Kyiv has the right to such heroes and identity, then this is already a problem of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel “.

In response, Lyor Hayat stated that Israeli policy will remain unchanged and will never support the approval of criminals who collaborated with the Hitler regime and participated in the extermination of Jews. However, no one has the right to teach Israel and its official representatives how to preserve the memory of the Holocaust or the war by distorting history.