Yosyf Zisels Explained

Yosyf Zisels
Birth Date:2 December 1946
Birth Place:Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union (now Uzbekistan)
Alma Mater:Chernivtsi University

Yosyf Samuyilovych Zisels (Ukrainian: Йосиф Самуїлович Зісельс; born 2 December 1946), also Josef Zissels, is a Ukrainian human rights activist and former Soviet dissident.[1]

He was a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group (UHG), involved in the samizdat movement, human rights activist, prominent activist in the Jewish movement in Ukraine, and a political prisoner.

On 24 June 2003, the Council of Leaders of All-Ukrainian Jewish Organizations stated that "Chairman of the Vaad of Ukraine, Joseph Zissels, 'is declared persona non grata in the Jewish community and has no right to represent the Jewish community of Ukraine'".[2] [3]

In April 2015, Yosyf Zisels stated that the combination of the slur "zhyd" and the word "banderite", which killed Jews, "acquired a new meaning and a positive connotation".[4] On 28 April 2015, Zisels stated that Ukrainian Jews were joining the Azov Regiment and that "Ukrainian Jews began to recognize themselves as Jews of Ukraine".[5]

Yosyf Zisels noted that "You cannot hang stereotypical labels on the OUN and UPA, which fought primarily for the independence of Ukraine."[6]

On 13 October 2016, Zisels noted that "representatives of the OUN Ilko Savchin and Mikhailo Svistun hid the Jewish family from the Germans for almost the entire war", but he did not mention that "in 1946, Ukrainian nationalists learned about that the Svistuns helped the Jews during the war, and killed Mikhail and his wife".[7] The director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee,, considers Yosyf Zisels wording as a consequence of an organized disinformation campaign and an attempt to hide the participation of members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists in the extermination of Jews in Babi Yar.[8]

After the speech of the President of Israel Reuven Rivlin on 27 September 2016 in the Verkhovna Rada, during which the President mentioned one and a half million Jews who died in Ukraine, about the Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations and the complicity of the OUN in the Holocaust, Zissels said that he was already too old, out of his mind a man with "senile dementia"[9] and he does not reflect the opinion of the young.[10] Moreover, Zissels said that he was ready to apologize to the Ukrainians for the words of the Israeli president.[11] Zissels also demanded that the President of Israel apologize. As a result, Zissels himself had to apologize,[12] and wrote a letter to the President of Israel.[13]

On 13 March 2017, Yosyf Zizels, together with Volodymyr Viatrovych, held a conference "Shoah in Ukraine" in Paris., president of the Russian Jewish Congress, accused Zisels of blaming Jews for the Holocaust based on the assassination of Symon Petliura by Sholom Schwartzbard.[14]

Zisels believes that the monument to Symon Petliura, whose soldiers killed many thousands of Jews,[15] may be in Vinnytsia, where a large number of Jews were exterminated.[16]

On 27 April 2018, Zissels criticized the opinion of 56 US congressmen who were concerned about the "growth of state-funded anti-Semitism",[17] saying that their words were not true.[18]

In May 2018, the Jews of Mykolaiv Oblast announced their withdrawal from the Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine . "In the opinion of the members of the Mykolaiv regional Jewish community, the position of the VAAD presidium on the glorification of the Ukrainian armed formations that were part of the Wehrmacht and the SS contradicts the position of our organization. And the protest of the VAAD leadership against the congressmen's appeal to the US State Department is an attempt to hide the actual growth of xenophobic sentiments in Ukraine." the statement said.[19]

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  1. Book: Verba, Lesya . Bohdan Yasen . Helsinki Guarantees for Ukraine Committee. The human rights movement in Ukraine: documents of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, 1976-1980. Smoloskyp Publishers. 1980. 265. 0-914834-44-4.
  2. Web site: Украина накануне бат-мицвы. — «Вести», 14.08.2003 . 2018-05-18 . 2019-04-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190408161107/http://rjews.net/gazeta/Lib/briman/030814-briman.shtml .
  3. Web site: ЗИСЕЛЬС НА РАСПУТЬЕ . 2017-10-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171029012420/http://old.vaadua.org/Hadasot/Had102/04.htm . 2017-10-29 .
  4. Web site: Правозащитник Иосиф Зисельс поставил неутешительный диагноз Украине . 2018-05-18 . 2017-11-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171107220722/http://nv.ua/publications/odin-iz-samyh-vliyatelnyh-otechestvennyh-evreev-stavit-neuteshitelnyy-diagnoz-ukraine-46467.html .
  5. Web site: Евреи вступают в нацистский полк "Азов" . 2018-05-18 . 2017-11-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171107021412/http://rusplt.ru/ukraine/evrei-vstupayut-v-natsistskiy-polk-azov-16726.html .
  6. Web site: В услужении у подонков - Литературная газета.
  7. Web site: Эдуард Долинский: Одно но в истории спасения евреев националистами. 3 November 2016.
  8. Web site: Эдуард Долинский: Украина пытается скрыть участие ОУН в Холокосте - Главновости.
  9. Web site: По следам президента Израиля. Как украинские евреи отреагировали на обвинения ОУН в Холокосте . 2018-05-18 . 2017-10-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171026162623/https://strana.ua/articles/analysis/33690-po-sledam-prezidenta-izrailya-kak-ukrainskie-evrei-otreagirovali-na-obvineniya-oun-v-holokoste.html .
  10. Web site: Выступление президента Израиля вызвало критическую реакцию в Киеве . 28 September 2016 . 2018-05-18 . 2018-01-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180110074159/http://www.newsru.co.il/world/28sep2016/rivlin_ua_107.html .
  11. Web site: Президент Израиля вскрыл антисемитский нарыв в Украине. strana.ua. 2016-10-12. 2016-10-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20161013143736/http://strana.ua/opinions/34649-prezident-izrailya-vskryl-antisemitskij-naryv-v-ukraine.html .
  12. Web site: Сопредседатель Ассоциации еврейских организаций Зисельс извинился за слова о президенте Израиля . 2018-05-18 . 2017-10-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171026162657/https://strana.ua/news/46680-zisels-izvinilsya-za-slova-o-prezidente-izrailya.html .
  13. Web site: Письмо Иосифа Зисельса послу Израиля в Украине . 2017-10-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171026111906/http://eajc.org/page279/news56061 . 2017-10-26 .
  14. Web site: Kanner . Yuri . 13 March 2017 . Цена обедни в Париже . Lunch scene in Paris . snob.ru . https://web.archive.org/web/20220220233927/https://snob.ru/profile/29101/blog/121642/ . 20 February 2022 . ru.
  15. Web site: Проскуровский погром . 16 January 2014 . 2018-05-18 . 2018-05-31 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180531215108/http://jew-observer.com/ne-zabudem/proskurovskij-pogrom/ .
  16. Web site: Евреи Винницы — антиукраинские силы. Похоже, так считает Иосиф Зисельс . 2018-05-18 . 2017-11-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171107015238/https://fraza.ua/blog/263802-evrei-vinnitsy-antiukrainskie-sily-pohozhe-tak-schitaet-iosif-zisels .
  17. Web site: В Конгрессе США обвинили Украину в "прославлении нацизма" . 26 April 2018 . 2018-05-18 . 2018-05-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180508121805/https://www.obozrevatel.com/abroad/za-banderu-i-shuhevicha-v-kongresse-ssha-obvinili-ukrainu-v-proslavlenii-natsizma.htm .
  18. Web site: Лидер евреев в Украине выдвинул серьезные обвинения конгрессменам США . 27 April 2018 . 2018-05-18 . 2018-05-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180508121748/https://www.obozrevatel.com/society/kongressmenam-otvetili-ob-antisemitizme-v-ukraine.htm .
  19. http://eadaily.com/ru/news/2018/05/15/iosif-zisels-samozvannyy-lider-evreev-i-mogilshchik-evreystva-na-ukraine Joseph Zisels — self-proclaimed leader of the Jews and gravedigger of Jewry in Ukraine
  20. Decree of the President of Ukraine from 8 листопада 2006 year № 937/2006 «Про відзначення державними нагородами України засновників та активістів Української Громадської Групи сприяння виконанню Гельсінкських угод»
  21. Decree of the President of Ukraine from 26 листопада 2005 year № 1653/2005 «Про відзначення державними нагородами України колишніх політичних в'язнів і репресованих»
  22. Web site: Иосиф Зисельс — самозванный лидер евреев и могильщик еврейства на Украине . Iosif Zissels - self-proclaimed leader of the Jews and the gravedigger of Jews in Ukraine . eadaily.com. 15 May 2018 .
  23. Web site: UKRAINIAN JEWISH LEADER ACCUSES 'DAILY MAIL' OF FABRICATING HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM QUOTE . 27 August 2015 . 2018-05-18 . 2017-10-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171026174229/http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Ukrainian-Jewish-leader-accuses-Daily-Mail-of-fabricating-Holocaust-revisionism-quote-413494 .
  24. Web site: Социальные сети - все статьи по запросу социальные сети на сайте.

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