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Ukraine’s Revolutionaries Are Not Fascists

Bernard-Henri Lévy, The Daily Beast, February 26, 2014

Putin says the events in Kiev signal the return of fascism to Europe, even as he foments anti-Semitic sentiment at home. Why the West must not believe his misinformation campaign.

Victor Pinchuk, Mistral Warships, and the Jews of Ukraine

Bernard-Henri Lévy, The HuffPost, November 26, 2014

On Nov. 18, in Kiev, philanthropist Victor Pinchuk was awarded the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Medal of Honor by the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine for his contributions to Ukrainian-Jewish understanding and cooperation. What follows is a version of my remarks at the ceremony.

Ukraine’s Year of Precarious Triumph

Bernard-Henri Lévy, The Wall Street Journal, December 30, 2014

Much remains to be done, but the wheel of fortune has turned against Putin.

Putin, Ukraine and historical revisionism

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Kyiv Post, May 09, 2015

The following is the English-language translation of a Bernard-Henri Levy speech delivered on April 16 at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris as part of an international colloquium entitled The Second World War in Russian Political Discourse.

The comedian VS the hero of Ukraine

Bernard-Henri Lévy, The Wall Street Journal, April 08, 2019

Petro Poroshenko, the man who stood up to Putin, deserves better than to be fired at history’s whim.

Ukraine

On February 2014, Bernard-Henri Lévy delivers a speech on the thronged central square known as the Maidan, occupied around the clock by the people of Kiev. It is the beginning of an ongoing struggle for the hearts and minds of the Ukrainian’s “fellow Europeans.” Despite, or perhaps because of, the defeatists inclined to accept the aggressions of Putin’s Russia, Lévy covers all 450 kilometers of the front line across which the defenders of democracy and of Europe face off against pro-Russian separatists.

Biography (2016)

On 3 February 2016, Bernard-Henri Lévy publishes L’Esprit du Judaïsme (Grasset) (The Spirit of Judaism, Random House, 2017). Reworked several times, the book,...