Posted on 08/15/2005 12:39:03 PM PDT by jb6
Ukrainian nationalists have asked President Viktor Yushchenko to open criminal proceedings against "judeo-Nazis" in Ukraine, singling out Chabad rabbis and the main work of Chabad hassidic literature, the Tanya, according to the web – site of the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS.
In an open letter to Yushchenko, members of the Ukrainian Conservative Party and several far right-wing editors demanded that Jews be prevented from teaching the Tanya in Jewish schools and synagogues, so as to stop the spread of "this misanthropic religious system."
At the Ukrainian Embassy in Tel Aviv, cultural attache Maksym Osavoliuk said on Wednesday that his government would investigate the incident.
"Our official stance is to fight anti-Semitism and xenophobia as much as possible," he said.
Jewish organizations, meanwhile, warned of a possible escalation in anti-Semitism. Only a few weeks ago in Dnepropetrovsk, two synagogues were vandalized.
"This is not a sporadic event, but part of the long-term activity of anti-Semitic groups," said Eduard Dolinsky, executive vice-president of the United Jewish Community of Ukraine. "We are constantly fighting against this sort of thing."
Those involved are tied to the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management (known in Ukraine by its acronym, MAUP), a sizable college and unabashedly anti-Semitic publishing house. MAUP recently presented a blacklist of "media and organizations who distribute and defend or support Jewish racism, Judeo-Nazism and Jewish organized crime in Ukraine." In June, its conference titled "Dialogue of Civilizations: Zionism as the Greatest Threat to Contemporary Civilization" attracted the likes of white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
The campaign is strikingly similar to letters sent to the Russian authorities earlier this year, signed by members of Parliament and academia, which attempted to outlaw other Jewish religious books as inhumane and claimed that Jews had staged anti-Semitic attacks to besmirch the name of patriotic Russians.
The Federation of Jewish Communities in the Commonwealth of Independent States, which criticized the Russian government at the time for practically ignoring that campaign, called on Ukraine to hold those involved accountable for inciting hatred against Jews.
"Surely those responsible are saying, 'In Russia they got away with it, so we'll get away with it in Ukraine,'" said Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz, executive director of the FJC.
"We will turn to the president and prime minister to ask them to denounce the parliamentarians involved," he added. "They must be held accountable, even if they are minority members. Serious repercussions have to come from this."
The letter could revive concerns about Yushchenko's commitment to protecting the country's Jewish population.
According to The Kyiv (Kiev) Post, Yushchenko, Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk and Finance Minister Viktor Pynzenyk have previously served on MAUP's board of trustees. Some Jewish groups defended Yushchenko, however, noting that he had gone to Auschwitz for the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of its liberation, and that he joins a Kiev synagogue each year to light Hanukka candles.
One of Yushchenko's defenders was Ukrainian Chief Rabbi Yaakov Bleich, who told The Jerusalem Post in March that Yushchenko "is definitely not anti-Semitic, but he is maybe too tolerant of people who are."
Bleich is also one of the public Jewish figures named in the letter (although he is not a Chabadnik), and has been the frequent target of MAUP's criticism in the past
Ukraine has a vast and unfortunate history of anti-Semitism. Many Ukrainians were Nazi collaborationists and actively engaged in genocide.
These were the guys who did Baba Yar weren't they?
One of Yushchenko's defenders was Ukrainian Chief Rabbi Yaakov Bleich, who told The Jerusalem Post in March that Yushchenko "is definitely not anti-Semitic, but he is maybe too tolerant of people who are."
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This will undermine all that he is trying to accomplish if he cannot get it under control. You can't have it both ways.
A tale of truly inspirational bigotry and stupidity. Evil and hate for their own sakes.
Ping!
I'll give you a hint: look up Una-Unso and Tymoshenko
What is the Tanya------a girl's name?
Likkutei Amarim, more commonly known as the Tanya, is an early work of Hasidic Judaism, written by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic dynasty.
"The campaign is strikingly similar to letters sent to the Russian authorities earlier this year, signed by members of Parliament and academia, which attempted to outlaw other Jewish religious books as inhumane and claimed that Jews had staged anti-Semitic attacks to besmirch the name of patriotic Russians. "
Ukraine is far less tolerant of this skinhead mentality that eminates from Russia.
Don't forget that the Kremlin is responsible for killing far more Jews than the Nazis - and that two thirds of those killed at Babi Yar were non Jewish Ukrainians - including the national soccor team that beat the German team desptie the warning they would be executed if they did humiliate the Germans.
PS - I don't see the Russians helping us in Afghanistan and Iraq - The Ukrainians are and would do more were it not for Yushchenko's Russian opposition.
I don't get the term "judeo-Nazi."
Ukraine Guards Glad to Work for Yushchenko
And on to a side note:
Oh please. Yulia Tymoshenko, Prime Minister, is closely allied to the Una-Unso nazis. She was the first politicians to greet 3 of them upon their release from prison, under Kuchma. Link provided in a previous post.
Furthermore, they served as Yushchenko's bodyguards, also link provided.
Try to spin it as you like Spanalot, the stink will still rise from the Yushchenko-Tymoshenko Road Show.
Hassids are misanthropic?
The chap who said that should consider exporting whatever it is that he is smoking.
ping
Your links do not work and I see you do not refute that the Kremlin is guilty of the Genocide of more Jews than the Nazis.
Sure, there are skinhead types all over but nowhere do your articles demonstrate that these groups have any official recognition by Ukraine - which is helping us in the Waron Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq - unlike your buddy Putie-Poo-Poo
I guess you missed the fact that the Russians armed the Northern Alliance and provided Russian crews to those tanks that ran over a good chunk of the Taliban. Without them, we furthermore wouldn't have had those bases in central asia.
Excuse me? Prove it. I assertain that you are responsible for the massacre of more Welsh then the British Crown, now disprove it. That's about the level of your logic. You make the accusation, you prove it.
As for Una-Unso, gads, lie all you want, they sit in the Rada as an official party, guess that's not official recognition enough for you?
Ukraine is helping us in Iraq, though they're now pulling troops out under Yushchenko. In Afghanistan, the Russians were helping us from day one.
My links don't work? Unless you're system is broken, you're purposely lieing, as all 3 links work quite fine.
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