Ukraine has a vast and unfortunate history of anti-Semitism. Many Ukrainians were Nazi collaborationists and actively engaged in genocide.
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!
What is the Tanya------a girl's name?
I don't get the term "judeo-Nazi."
Hassids are misanthropic?
The chap who said that should consider exporting whatever it is that he is smoking.
Russia, as well as all of the provinces of the late Soviet Union, has an ancient tradition of anti-Semitism. In his last years Stalin was preparing a mass persecution and liquidation of the Jews. I can recommend a couple excellent books of this subject should anyone be interested.
Here's an insight, Ukraine "experts"- far right parties are an insignificant minority (1-2% of electorate) and if you report what fringe parties are doing and attempt to present it as mainstrean, then all is not well in your head. This is on par with Soviet-era style reports that America is nothing but race riots and a poverty-stricken hell hole.
I'm sensing that jb6 is Russian (who else would slam Ukraine so much?). Russian treatment of its Jews is nothing to be proud of. Guess which nation had the following motto: Biei zhydov, spasai Rosiyi. (transl. "Kill Jews, save Russia"