Judeo-Banderite

English

Etymology

From Judeo- +‎ Banderite.

Noun

Judeo-Banderite (plural Judeo-Banderites)

1. (politics, derogatory, rare) A Ukrainian nationalist of Jewish descent.
   • 2017, Olga Bertelsen (editor), Revolution and War in Contemporary Ukraine, The Challenge of Change:

     Since that time the T-shirt "Judeo-Banderite" has been worn by many Ukrainian Jews in defiance of Putin's propaganda.

   • 2018, Marci Shore, The Ukrainian Night, An Intimate History of Revolution, page 272:

     In this phrase, which could also be translated as "Judeo-Banderite," the semantics are transformed from pejorative to affirmative.

   • 2021, Mykola Riabchuk, At the Fence of Metternich's Garden, page 179:

     These terms were not, however, rejected but rather appropriated in a humorous way - with the famous public appearance of a Jewish-Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky on a T-shirt with the sign "Zhydo-banderovets" (Judeo-Banderite) and the Ukrainian coat of arms (a trident) styled as menorah.

   • 2022, Georgiy Kasianov, Memory Crash, Politics of History in and Around Ukraine, 1980s–2010s, page 256:

     The neologism zhydobanderivtsi (Judeo-Banderites) became popular as an ironic representation of the unity of ethnic Jews and nationalists in the struggle against Russia's aggression in Ukraine.

Translations

a Ukrainian nationalist of Jewish descent

• Russian: жидобандеровец (židobanderovec)