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 Wednesday, January 26, 2005 Activist
critical of Jews was part of U.S. delegation to
Ukraine By Warren P. Strobel and
Jonathan S. Landay
Knight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON - A delegation sent
by President Bush to Ukraine's presidential
inauguration last weekend included a
Ukrainian-American activist who has accused Jews of
manipulating the Holocaust for their gain and
blamed them for Soviet-era atrocities in
Ukraine. "Big money drives the Holocaust industry,"
Myron B. Kuropas wrote in August 2000. The inclusion of Kuropas in the U.S. delegation
to Sunday's inauguration of Ukrainian President
Viktor Yushchenko, which was led by
Secretary of State Colin Powell, appeared to
be an embarrassment for the Bush
administration. A White House official, who refused to be
identified by name, said Tuesday
[January 25,
2005], "We were not aware of his
previous statements. Had we
been aware of such comments beforehand, we would
not have invited Dr. Kuropas to be a member of the
delegation." It couldn't be learned who suggested him for the
honor. But three State Department officials said
the delegation was assembled by the White House.
Such delegations normally are vetted carefully, but
this one was pulled together very quickly because
Yushchenko's inauguration date was set only last
week after a challenge from the loser, Viktor
Yanukovych, was rebuffed in court. Powell went
only because the confirmation of his replacement,
Condoleezza Rice, was delayed by Senate
Democrats. The disclosure comes at a particularly awkward
time. Vice President Dick Cheney is to attend
ceremonies on Thursday at the former Nazi death
camp in Auschwitz,
Poland, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the
liberation of the concentration camps. Kuropas, an adjunct professor at Northern
Illinois University, didn't respond to requests for
comment at his home, via e-mail and through the
Ukrainian Weekly newspaper, where he writes a
column. His presence in the
delegation was greeted with dismay by several
U.S. officials and Jewish-American leaders, who
learned about it after the fact. "It's disturbing to give
him credibility and to put him on the
delegation," said Malcolm Hoenlein,
executive vice chairman of the Conference of
Presidents of Major American Jewish
Organizations. Kuropas' argument that Jews played a driving
role behind Soviet leader Josef Stalin's
murderous policies in Ukraine "is the one great
anti-Semitic canard in Ukraine today," Hoenlein
said. Embarrassed White House and State Department
officials said Tuesday that they were trying to
determine how Kuropas got on the delegation. As
part of the delegation, Kuropas traveled on
Powell's plane. Kuropas, who worked as a White House special
assistant for ethnic affairs in President Gerald
Ford's administration, doesn't deny the
Holocaust occurred. But a sampling of his writings available on the
Internet shows that he's frequently accused Jews of
using the tragedy to shield themselves from
criticism. He's been a critic of the Office
of Special Investigations, a Justice Department
unit that hunts Nazi war criminals who entered the
United States. The Ukrainian News, based in Edmonton,
Canada, quoted Kuropas as saying in a March 1998
speech that Ukrainian "good cops" should engage
Jews in a dialogue on their common history, while
Ukrainian "bad cops" should "go on the offensive
reminding Jews of ... Jewish
Bolsheviks without whom the murderous Soviet regime
would have collapsed in its infancy." "Let the Jews go on the defensive for a change.
The crimes of their people cannot be explained away
easily," he was quoted as saying. Marco Levytsky, the author of the report
and the editor of the Ukrainian News, said
Kuropas never objected to the accuracy of the
report. In the August 2000 column, Kuropas wrote that
Israel, and Jews generally, use the memory of the
Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews and millions of
others died, to fend off criticism. "Today the Holocaust is the shield that deflects
criticism of Israeli policy; even to question
Israel's behavior is to risk being branded an
'anti-Semite'," he wrote.   Kuropas
quoted extensively from "The Holocaust Industry:
Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish
Suffering," by Norman
G. Finkelstein. Kuropas said that former
Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger
(left) earned $300,000 per year as chairman of a
Holocaust claims organization and that Nazi-hunter
Simon Wiesenthal (right) commands
$25,000 per appearance.
"To survive, the Holocaust industry is always
searching for its next mark. Ukraine's turn is just
around the corner," he wrote. He's also written that Jews played a major role
in the rise of the Bolsheviks in the Soviet Union
and, by extension, Stalin's brutal subjugation of
Ukraine in the 1920s and 1930s. Millions died in an
artificially induced famine, including 3 million to
7 million alone in 1932-33, according to the State
Department. In a 1996 column, similar to others he's
written, Kuropas called for greater attention to
communist atrocities in Ukraine and suggested that
the role of Jews should be looked at. "Let the
chips fall where they may. The inordinate role
played by Jews in bringing Bolshevism to power is
certainly a topic worthy of further exploration,"
he wrote. © 2005, Knight
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