And what was the context? Why would a politician be attacking an actress who hasn’t lived in his country for over 20 years?

Zhidivka does NOT mean “dirty jew’ as you have reported (or likely copied and pasted from another questionable article). ‘Zhyd’ is the masculine Ukrainian noun for ‘Jew’. ‘Zhidivka’ is the femine Ukrainian noun for ‘Jew’. It is NOT used in a pejorative sense any more than the word ‘Jew’ is. It is unlikely that the person you cited used the Russian noun Zhidovka since he only makes speaches in Ukrainian and not Russian. The terms Zhyd/Zhydivka has been used for centuries in most Slavic lands, including Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and more with no malice intended. The word is akin to the French “Juif”, German “Juden” and so on. Ms Kunis stated that her parents did not experience any anti-semitism in Ukraine and in fact they lived quite well as compared to the average Soviet citizen. Her family emigrated for purely economic reasons as she indicates in her autobiography. Ms Kunis has never identified herself as a Ukrainian or Ukrainian Jew even though she’s born in what is now Ukraine. She has consistently refered to herself as Jew. Therefore if someone else referes to her as a Jew (Zhidivka) she simply can’t be offended since that’s what she has self identified herself as.

She is a filthy kike rat!

Really? Suppose we call you a nasty little portigee rat? Like that? How’s it feel? You don’t even know the woman. Shut up and go clean your room and do your homework.

So if the word isn’t offensive, should it be construed as an insult that he said that she “is not a true Ukrainian because she’s a ‘zhydovka’”? Just wondering.

Mila never claimed to be Ukrainian. In her interviews, she stresses she’s Jewish, and that’s perfectly fine with us, Ukrainians. What’s not fine though is her calling us anti-semitic. She was born in a West-Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi, one of the oldest multi-cultural cities in Ukraine with a huge Jewish community. Miroshnichenko’s post was a reaction to Mila calling her hometown a hateful, anti-semitic place, and that’s all. He basically said he doesn’t care what she says about Ukraine because she’s not Ukrainian and hasn’t been here in years. He never attached her, he actually defended her hometown… Ukraine is a tolerant multi-national country with a huge number of Jewish politicians, cultural figures etc. living there. There are no persecutions of Jewish people here. So please stop making a victim of Ms. Kunis

There is no doubt that, for a Russian, the word “zhid” has sharply offensive meaning. Since Ukraine was a part of Russia (despite its silly attempts to separate), the person who used this word, meant offense in its worst context. Whoever tries to underplay the word’s true meaning, is on a hypocritical and dangerous path. Zhid, or zhidovka, refer to a person with “zhidovsky” mentality, which includes interest in money, trading, merchant skills, lies, scheming and success. Yes, success of Jewish people is the driving force behind these hateful attitude. No one deserves to be called that.

Is there a reason that my comment is being deleted for the third time?

There is no doubt that, for a Russian, the word “zhid” has sharply
offensive meaning. Since Ukraine was a part of Russia (despite its silly
attempts to separate), the person who used this word, meant offense in
its worst context. Whoever tries to underplay the word’s true meaning,
is on a hypocritical and dangerous path. Zhid, or zhidovka, refer to a
person with “zhidovsky” mentality, which includes interest in money,
trading, merchant skills, lies, scheming and success. Yes, success of
Jewish people is the driving force behind these hateful attitude. No one
deserves to be called that.

I’m afraid you’re wrong. While it’s true that zhidovka sounds offensive to Russian-speaking people, Ukrainian zhidivka used in Western Ukraine is just another way to call a Jewish woman a Jew and is seen as acceptable in that region. Mind you, both Ms. Kunis and Igor Miroshnichenko come from that region, so no insult was meant there. And before you start, I’m from Ukraine so I know what I’m talking about. While I would not use this word myself because I come from a Russian-speaking part of Ukraine, I would like to repeat that in western regions it’s not meant or seen as offensive.

First, my apologies for multiple postings of the same thing, there was a connection glitch, I guess.

I am from Ukraine, as well. There is no need in denying the overall anti-Semitic attitude there and in Russia. It takes many forms, or, should I say, many disguises, such as righteous attacks, casual mention, and, worst of all, humor. The word “zhid” has been, for the longest time, the rude name for the “inferior sort of people” – Jews. To say that “zhid” Western Ukranians means something objective like a Jewish person, is to say only part of the truth. The way the quote goes, there is clear antagonism between the good country Ukraine and the bad Israel. Here is the quote in Russian, to refresh it in memory: Она
не украинка,а жидовка по происхождению. Этим гордится, и звезда Давида ей в
руки. Только вот в стране, в которой она родилась, – ни слова и ни позитива.
Поэтому считать ее своей язык НЕ поворачивается. Пусть любит себя Гумрак или
Израиль и не надо ее лепить к Украине!

Here is the translation:
She is not a Ukranian, but zhidovka by birth. She is proud of it, armed with the star of David. There is nothing positive said in the country [about her] she was born in. Therefore, it’s impossible to count her as ours. Let her love herself, Gurmak or Israel, and do not associate her with Ukraine!

You decide just how innocent and proper the wording here is.

Because that’s what anti-semites do. and why was he talking of her in the first place, doesnt he have better thigns to speak of

You must be a complete idiot to take what you know in Russian and think that it means the same in Ukrainian since “Ukraine was a part of Russia.” That’s plain stupid and shows that your intellect is lacking. Western Ukraine (which is where Mr. Myroshnychenko’s party and members are from) was under Polish occupation for a long time. Well guess what the word for Jew is in Polish? You guessed it: zhyd. This is the official, literary word for Jew in Polish as well as Slovak, Czech and a few other Slavic and even non-Slavic languages, INCLUDING Ukrainian. This is why when the Ukrainian Justice Ministry (which is certainly not under any semblance of control of Mr. Myroshnychenko’s party but rather quite the opposite) was asked to make a statement about the word “zhyd”, they said that it was appropriate. The same has been said by many other Ukrainian linguists.

As for Jewish success in Ukraine. Yes, many of the oligarchs in Ukraine are Jewish including Pinchuk, Kolomoisky and Boholyubov who happen to be the second, third and fourth richest of all according to Forbes. Number one spot is held by a Tatar, Rinat Akhmetov. They have robbed the country blind and impoverished 80% of the population. They got to where they are now by murdering their competition, bribing, stealing and all sorts of other fine methods of doing business. The oligarchs, including the Jewish ones, also control the criminal Ukrainian government which continues to rob the people and make them even poorer bringing the country to the brink of economic and cultural collapse while further enriching themselves. Should Ukrainians have nothing to say about them? God forbid they criticize the oligarch Jews! That would be anti-Semitism wouldn’t it? So, I guess Ukrainians should shut shut up, right?

But Ukrainians really are quite tolerant towards Jews regardless of what the oligarchs have done and are doing and regardless of the fact that Jews historically collaborated with the Poles in enslaving Ukrainians, which is why the Khmelnytsky Revolution happened, and regardless of the fact that Jews made up the majority of officers, including senior officers, in the NKVD’s ranks in the 1930s. And it was the NKVD who were responsible for carrying out the Holodomor which starved between 5-10 million Ukrainians to death precisely at this time. Head of the NKVD – Genrikh Yagoda – was Jewish who killed a great deal of Ukrainians as “part of his job” as was Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich, the Soviet “leader” of Ukraine who was also one of the principal organizers of the Holodomor. Yes, Jewish “success” in Ukraine really is something to be proud of!

Ahh but you are mistaken about everything you have stated. First of all, more Ukrainians died in WWII at the hands of the Nazis than Jews: 6.5 million compared to 6 million Jews. But forget the numbers game. Ukrainians were murdered by the Nazis in concentration camps, shot, burned alive, hung, starved, gased etc., etc. Every single Ukrainian family lost reltives during the war. Ukrainians also died by the millions during WWI, and then the 1917 Revolution and Civil War claimed more millions and then during the Holodomor between 5-10 million were starved to death by the NKVD (Jews made up the majority of the officers of the NKVD at the time) and the Stalinist purges killed even more millions. Ukrainians suffered more during the last century than any other people in the world. Jewish suffering does not even compare. So, don’t tell us about how Jews suffered. And you don’t have to tell us about how Israel is making the Palestinians suffer….the World can see what is happening. Just read Haaretz.com (an Israel newspaper) to hear all about the crimes committed by Israel against the Palestinians along with the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their lands and the massacres against them by Israel’s terrorist leaders like Begin. What’s most horrific is that Jews did not learn any compassion from what happened to them during the Holocaust, instead, they have learned to use the Holocaust to illegally occupy Palestinian lands and carrying out genocidal policies against them. Shame on Israel!! And shame on those who lie about Israeli crimes and suport them!!

to add onto what I said yesterday, I believe I sum it up pretty well in another post where I wrote “The insinuation that she can’t speak of what her or her family
experienced when she was there is ridiculous, because they were there
and they did experience it. Writing off her comments, as he did, by
saying she was never Ukrainian because she’s ethnically Jewish is
ridiculous.” I’m willing to bet that her comments about things her or her family experience that were anti-semitic is true, and she was simply talking about the past and certainly not immediately associating it with modern day Ukraine or how her hometown is now.

you are an idiot. Negro means black and so does ni@#er, but that does not mean the same thing as being black. The point is that Zyhdovka is used by anti-Semites as a way of demeaning others. The words itself irrelevant, it is its meaning.