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https://religionnews.com/2019/11/13/why-are-so-many-players-in-the-impeachment-trial-jewish-2/
>http://archive.is/yoVeY - “Why are so many players in the impeachment trial Jewish?”
https://web.archive.org/web/20191204132242/https://religionnews.com/2019/11/13/why-are-so-many-players-in-the-impeachment-trial-jewish-2/
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As readers following the saga may have already gleaned, there’s a disproportionate number of Jewish actors in this drama. At least one — Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the former National Security Council director for European affairs — is scheduled to testify next week. (Vindman told congressional investigators last month that he heard Trump’s July phone call with the president of Ukraine and reported it to his superiors because he was concerned about a quid pro quo.)
Behind the scenes there are others, including former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s Ukrainian-American business associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman. (The two were allegedly involved in helping Trump remove Marie Yovanovitch as ambassador to Ukraine.) And then, of course, there's Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was asked by Trump to investigate Biden in a July 25 phone conversation — the foundation for the impeachment inquiry. Parnas, Fruman and Zelensky are also Jewish.
Finally, Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, is also Jewish, though unlike the others he was born in the United States to a couple that escaped the Holocaust.
Why so many? Scholars say it’s mostly a coincidence, and there’s certainly no connection between them, but there are a few intriguing historical notes that might shed light on this curious set of circumstances.
The population of Ukraine is overwhelmingly Christian; the vast majority — up to two-thirds — identify as Orthodox, according to the CIA’s World Factbook. A minority are Catholic. Jews comprise less than 1% of the population.
But here’s the interesting part: Many Ukrainian emigres to the United States — like a large number of emigres from the former Soviet Union — are Jewish.
In fact, Vindman, Parnas and Fruman were able to immigrate to the U.S. precisely because they are Jewish. In the late 1980s, as the Soviet Union was tottering and its republics began declaring their independence, Soviet leaders opened the doors to emigration. Ukraine declared independence in 1991.
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https://www.jta.org/2019/09/24/politics/the-trump-ukraine-controversy-and-the-jews-involved-explained
>http://archive.is/c8pio - “The Trump-Ukraine controversy, and the Jews involved, explained”
https://web.archive.org/web/20191204133342/https://www.jta.org/2019/09/24/politics/the-trump-ukraine-controversy-and-the-jews-involved-explained
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The key Jews: Ukraine’s president and U.S. Congress members
President Volodymyr Zelensky
At the heart of the scandal is the relationship between Trump and Zelensky, Ukraine’s youthful president elected in May who is Jewish. Zelensky walks a tightrope between standing up to Russia, cultivating friendships with the West and discussing his identity in a country with an anti-Semitic past.
The former comedian, 41, is a popular figure — the July 25 phone call from Trump was to congratulate him for his party’s overwhelming wins in parliamentary elections. Ukrainians are looking to Zelensky and his cadre of young reformers to deliver a stable government after years of enduring widespread political corruption.
Compounding Zelensky’s challenges is his Jewishness. He shies away from repudiating Ukraine’s anti-Semitic past and from what many see as its lingering anti-Semitism issue. Prior to his election, for example, an influential pundit said that the president of Ukraine should be Christian. He resists delving too deeply into his own Jewishness, joking at one point that “the fact that I am Jewish barely makes 20 in my long list of faults.”
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The impeachers: Reps. Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler and Eliot Engel
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The freshmen
Jewish Democrats feature prominently among the freshmen who won swing districts in the 2018 elections — the very group that until now has been wary of impeachment.
Monday evening brought a watershed symbolic moment: Seven of those freshmen, all coming from the national security community, said in a Washington Post op-ed that Trump had crossed a line and they were ready to consider impeachment. Two are Jewish — Elaine Luria of Virginia, a former Navy commander, and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, a former CIA agent.
“It is clear to me that he has betrayed the public trust and abandoned his obligations to the Constitution by elevating his own interests over the national interest,” Luria said in a separate statement. “Allegations of this gross misconduct meet the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors set by the Constitution.”
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