“Among Ukraine’s Jews, the Bigger Worry Is Putin, Not Pogroms”

2014/4/18 10:52:27

New York Times: “Mr. Kolomoysky, the new governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, derided Rabbi Lazar’s support for Mr. Putin as Kremlin-orchestrated propaganda. Russia, he said in an interview, has put pressure on Jewish leaders to fall into line with Moscow’s contention that Ukraine’s government was toppled in a fascist coup. ‘Unlike in Russia, Ukraine’s Jewish community is not a lever of the state,’ he said. Mr. Kolomoysky, a Russian speaker who has both Israeli and Ukrainian passports, scoffed at the Kremlin’s pledges to protect Jews, Russian-speakers and other minorities. ‘We can protect ourselves. We don’t need any protection from Russia,’ he said. ‘There is no fascism here. It does not exist.’

 


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DNIPROPETROVSK, Apr 18, 2014 (UBO) – RT and other Russian news services have engaged in what can only be adequately described as a blizzard of lies about anti-Semitism in Ukraine. The New York Times, one of the world’s most respected newspapers chose to do its own investigation of Moscow claims of rampant anti-Semitism in Ukraine and found the best source against Moscow’s lies to be – the Jewish governor of Dnipropetrovsk province.

 

In an article by Andrew Higgins, the depths of the lies from the Russian government were exposed in detail as revealed below:

 

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 has 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.”

 

For the complete text of the New York Times article, link below:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/09/wor ... ims-of-anti-semitism.html

 

Photo  of the Holocaust Center in Dnipropetrovsk from the NY Times article

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