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Ukraine’s Jews Dismiss Claims of Anti-Semitism
NYT ^ | April 8, 2014 | ANDREW HIGGINS

Posted on 04/08/2014 3:07:41 PM PDT by 1rudeboy

DNIPROPETROVSK, Ukraine — From his office atop the world’s biggest Jewish community center, Shmuel Kaminezki, the chief rabbi of this eastern Ukrainian city, has followed with dismay Russian claims that Ukraine is now in the hands of neo-Nazi extremists — and struggled to calm his panicked 85-year-old mother in New York.

Raised in Russia and a regular viewer of Russian television, she “calls every day to ask, ‘Have the pogroms happened yet?' ” Rabbi Kaminezki said. He tells his mother that they have not, and that she should stop watching Russian TV. “It is a total lie,” he said. “Jews are not in danger in Ukraine.”

Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, added his own voice to the scaremongering in a speech at the Kremlin on March 18, when he described the ouster of President Viktor F. Yanukovych of Ukraine as an armed coup executed by “nationalists, neo-Nazis, Russophobes and anti-Semites” who “continue to set the tone in Ukraine to this day.”

But instead of reeling in panic at any fascist resurgence, the Jewish community of Dnipropetrovsk, one of the largest in Ukraine, is celebrating the recent appointment of one of its own, a billionaire tycoon named Ihor Kolomoysky, as the region’s most powerful official.

“They made a Jew the governor. What kind of anti-Semitism is this?” asked Solomon Flaks, the 87-year-old chairman of the region’s Council of Jewish Veterans of the Great Patriotic War, a group of a rapidly shrinking number of World War II veterans. Since being formed in 1994, when it had 970 members, the council’s membership has fallen to 103, the result of old age and emigration to Israel.

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1 posted on 04/08/2014 3:07:41 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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2 posted on 04/08/2014 3:10:13 PM PDT by SJackson (the Democrats take back control, we donÂ’t make (this) kind of naked power grab, J Biden)
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Well said! You’d think that decades of sending Jews to “mental hospitals” and the gulags would have made them afraid to speak again the NeoSoviet empire, but that plan didn’t work. Thanks 1rudeboy.


3 posted on 04/08/2014 3:41:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SJackson

Extremely promising.

I’d be happy to eat crow on this, as I am deeply skeptical.


4 posted on 04/08/2014 3:43:11 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: SJackson

Immigration of Jews to Israel from Ukraine (aliya) is up 79% and something called the Leon Charney report on JLTV says the West does not report the rampant antisemitism that is going on in the Ukraine.


5 posted on 04/08/2014 4:09:21 PM PDT by Stepan12
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To: 1rudeboy

It’s the NYT. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

On the other hand http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-medias...on-ukraine...nazis-in.../5376530


6 posted on 04/08/2014 4:09:39 PM PDT by tumblindice (Are all Democrats inveterate, habitual liars?)
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To: tumblindice

Your libs are better than my libs.


7 posted on 04/08/2014 4:13:22 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

Funny, these accusations are coming from a country that has murdered more Jews than Hitler did. In large part of course because they had much more time.


8 posted on 04/08/2014 4:27:11 PM PDT by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the altar of gun control?)
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To: Jewbacca

I’d be happy to eat crow on this, as I am deeply skeptical.

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Yeah, keep your fingers crossed.

FYI, from August 1, 2013: http://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-divided-over-wwii-legacy-100702056.html

Some necrotic tissue in the body politic.


9 posted on 04/08/2014 4:30:02 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (FIGHT! FIGHT! SEVERE CONSERVATIVE AND THE WILD RIGHT!)
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To: tumblindice

http://ukrainianpolicy.com/minorities-on-maidan-an-interview-with-a-jewish-euromaidan-self-defense-unit-leader/

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/163972/jews-in-maidan


10 posted on 04/08/2014 8:33:38 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: tumblindice

Brand new video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTCmzawbuAs


11 posted on 04/08/2014 8:37:39 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: 1rudeboy
The NY Slimes....yes, I believe their fish wrap smells..as usual. Now they want us to believe that the person appointed to be the Ukraine's Chucky Schumer is a good Jewish boy too.

And.....don't pay any attention to the thousands of Jewish leaving the area...Jews just like to relocate \s.

12 posted on 04/09/2014 1:19:15 AM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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