Don’t consider this a vent, but rather a friend-to-friend confession.

Today, on the day Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a strict antisemitism law that seeks up to eight years of potential imprisonment for violators, Ukrainian media reported that Israel’s port of Haifa had accepted a cargo of wheat—43,765.18 tonnes—from Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories, loaded at the anchorage of Russia’s Kavkaz port.

At my request for Kyiv Post, the Ukrainian Embassy in Israel described this as a blatant violation of international law and called on Jerusalem to vet both the shipment and its route given that the final destination remains unclear. The tone was anything but reserved.

At my request for Kyiv Post, the Ukrainian Embassy in Israel described this as a blatant violation of international law and called on Jerusalem to vet both the shipment and its route given that the final destination remains unclear. The tone was anything but reserved.

These developments come on the heels of vocal support from prominent Israeli figures for Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán—the enfant terrible of the European Union—whose government has long relied on Brussels’ funding while simultaneously adopting an overtly pro-Kremlin stance, at times even accused of sharing sensitive information and consistently working to dehumanize Kyiv.

Now, I’m........

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