Russian diaspora
Barak Turns to Putin’s Playbook
By Sean at 28 January, 2009, 9:06 am
With Labor set to go down in flames in next month’s parliamentary elections in Israel, what is a beleaguered Ehud Brarak to do to pump up his tough image among crucial Russian voters? Why, “Putinize” himself, of course. As Lily Galili reports in Haaretz:
In a bid to gain the vote of the Russian immigrants in [...]
Red Army WWII Vet + Zionism = Marxist Likudnik
By Sean at 9 May, 2008, 10:09 am
Meet Don Kozlents. This octogenarian medal of valor holder is one of the millions of Red Army veterans of WWII. Like so many others, most of his family perished at the hands of the Nazis. He fought in the Battle of Kursk, where he was wounded when he crawled out of a [...]
Read More >>The Right but not the Desire to Return
By Sean at 4 April, 2008, 10:54 am
Russia and Israel have a rather interesting relationship. Political relations between the countries have been cool for decades, but the increase of Russian immigration and travel to the Jewish nation has inevitably complicated the two nation’s cultural and social ties. It’s estimated that well over a million Russians have immigrated to Israel since the collapse [...]
Read More >>Reconcilable Contradictions
By Sean at 9 September, 2007, 7:28 pm
Russian youth’s embrace of Nazism doesn’t just happen in Russia. It’s also happens where one might not initially expect: Israel. Haaretz reports that Israel’s Interior Ministry arrested eight members, all aged 16 to 21, of a Nazi gang in Petah Tikva, a suburb outside of Tel Aviv. The arrests are the [...]
Read More >>We’re Not Nazis, We’re Punk-Anarchists
By Sean at 27 February, 2007, 5:23 pm
“We’re punks!” declare immigrant teens mostly from the CIS who hang out at Petah Tikva’s Gan Yehonatan club in Israel. They are also skinheads. But skins come a various types. You have anti-racist skins, Nazi skins (or boneheads as anti-racists call them), and apparently a new type, one that fits well in [...]
Read More >>The Russian Diaspora in Israel
By Sean at 18 June, 2006, 7:04 pm
According to my unscientific survey, the Russian diaspora in Israel is an under reported topic in blogs on Russia. I present excerpts from two articles from Haaretz in hopes of beginning a discussion. The first tells of Russian anti-Semitism toward Orthodox Jews in the form of neo-Nazis, while the second reports on the [...]
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