Article on Zelensky's Jewish background: How Zelensky gave the world a Jewish hero

[JudyM]

Definitely worth a read and some rec’s: https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016315299

[Sneederbunk]

1. OK Israel, now dispatch Mossad.

[Behind the Aegis]

2. Huh?

That would be a political disaster.

[question everything]

3. Some spell it Zelenskyy. More

In spite of Ukraine's dark history of antisemitism, reaching back centuries to Cossack pogroms and the collaboration of some anti-Soviet nationalists with Nazi genocide during World War II, Ukraine after Zelenskyy's election in 2019 became the only country outside of Israel with both a president and prime minister who were Jewish. (Zelenskyy's grandfather fought in the Soviet Army against the Nazis, while other family died in the Holocaust.)

https://www.goskagit.com/news/world/zelenskyys-unlikely-journey-from-comedy-to-ukrainian-hero/article_d533fb9b-a60b-593b-b229-7f69de06e710.html