Thread by @RobbieBarwick

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Jaw-dropping!

@JacintaAllanMP @VictorianLabor @AlboMP @SenatorWong @JohnPesutto may be about to do something that would be egregiously insulting to the memory of Nazi victims in Australia's Polish and Jewish communities.

A state funeral for Banderite Stefan Romaniw!😮 1/

What is a Banderite?
Ukrainians who are followers of Stepan Bandera, the founder of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists-Bandera (OUN-B).
Australian Ukrainian Stefan Romaniw was global chair of OUN-B for about a decade until a few years ago.
👇at Bandera's grave in 2019. 2/

It's easy to find information about Bandera, but for this thread it's sufficient to cite only Times of Israel.
If you type Stepan Bandera into Times of Israel's search function, you get this result:

Initial results start 2016. Let's go through them. 3/timesofisrael.com/topic/stepan-b…

Two years after the United States backed the overthrow of the previous Ukrainian government, Times of Israel reports on UKraine's glorification of Bandera, identifying OUN-B's agenda to destroy Jews and Poles.
Stefan Romaniw's hero - are you paying attention @JacintaAllanMP? 4/

2017: Identifies Romaniw's hero Bandera as WWII Nazi collaborator. 5/

2018: ToI reports Ukraine again glorifying Stefan Romaniw's hero Bandera, identified as "Nazi collaborator", "pogroms leader".
Pogroms meaning mass slaughter of Jews. 6/

2019: ToI notes Bandera's grandson Steven Bandera - a friend of Stefan Romaniw - "reckons" with his grandfather's legacy of Nazi collaboration that killed tens of thousands of Jews and Poles.

Are you paying attention @JacintaAllanMP @JohnPesutto? 7/

Also 2019: ToI reports claim that Bandera-glorifying Ukraine distorts Jewish genocide. 8/

2020: ToI reports Ukraine's Zelensky government told Israel to butt out and stop complaining about Ukraine glorifying Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera - Stefan Romaniw's hero.

Are you paying attention @JacintaAllanMP @JohnPesutto? 9/

Another in 2020: This is the Zelensky government telling Israel to stop complaining that Nazi collaborators are honoured. 10/

2021: ToI reported that marches to honour Stefan Romaniw's hero Stepan Bandera, Nazi collaborator whose army killed thousands of Poles and Jews, continued. 11/

Also 2021: ToI reported Ukraine's ongoing contempt for memory of Jewish Holocaust victims, when an academic proposed naming a town, which was ethnically cleansed of Jews, Bandera City, after the Nazi collaborator and Stefan Romaniw's hero responsible for ethnic cleansing. 12/

2022: Marches continued to honour Stefan Romaniw's hero Stepan Bandera, Nazi collaborator responsible for killing thousands of Poles and Jews. 13/

2023 it gets interesting: the ToI search for Stepan Bendera shows a change of tone after Russia invades Ukraine.
Israel of course exists under protection of the US, which hates Russia, so suddenly Israel's press sides with the US whitewashing of Ukraine's Nazis, despite 👆14/

Also 2023: the final ToI article in Stepan Bandera search is also a political article siding with Ukraine vs. Russia, despite ToI's exhaustive documentation of Nazi problem detailed above.
So US-allied countries (Israel, Aus) suddenly cover up Nazi history to back Ukraine. 15/

Is that what @JacintaAllanMP @JohnPesutto are doing here in Victoria - whitewashing the history of Nazi atrocities & perpetrators in Ukraine to give Stefan Romaniw a state funeral?

Here's Romaniw in 1986 honouring Bandera's OUN-B ideologist & successor, Yaroslav Stetsko. 16/

So despite the current US-directed narrative that Ukraine doesn't have a Nazi problem, Israel's media record proves it did.

Australian Ukrainian Stefan Romaniw led a global campaign to keep it alive.

A state funeral will be shameful & deeply insulting to Jews & Poles. 17/17