Canadian paper spreads Holocaust distortion, human rights NGO demands response
A prominent Jewish human rights center criticized Wednesday a Canadian paper’s decision to publish an op-ed by a Ukrainian professor that distorts the Holocaust by demanding equal recognition at the nation’s Holocaust memorial of Slavic people’s suffering at the hands of the Nazis.
Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) denounced the Monday article in the Ottawa Citizen by Royal Military College of Canada Prof. Lubomyr Luciuk, in which he called the emphasis on Jewish suffering “discriminatory messaging” and “perpetuating a prejudice.”
From the Citizen article in question – “Luciuk: Ottawa’s National Holocaust Monument must include Ukrainians” … “This becomes even less comprehensible as you discover who is remembered. For example, several hundred Afro-Germans are — yet few, if any, ever ended up here. “
