Whitewashing Ukraine’s Nazis, in conversation with Ali Abunimah | EI Podcast

On episode 53, The Electronic Intifada’s director Ali Abunimah joins Asa and Nora for a roundtable discussion on Ukraine, NATO, the imperialist push toward war with Russia and how it all relates to Palestine. On 20 March, Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, addressed Israel’s parliament, the Knesset. He used the occasion to heap praise on Israel’s settler-colonial regime. Zelensky called on Israel to send more weapons to Ukraine than it has already. “Everyone in Israel knows that your missile defense is the best. It is powerful. Everyone knows that your weapon is strong. Everyone knows you’re doing great,” Zelensky said. “You know how to defend your state interests, the interests of your people. And you can definitely help us protect our lives, the lives of Ukrainians, the lives of Ukrainian Jews,” he added. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, Ali explains, “we’ve constantly been seeing Ukrainian officials pleading for Israeli weapons and praising Israeli weapo