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Ukrainian Jews flee to Israel amid anti-Semitism in war torn country
Alexander J. Apfel, TPS
Published: 04.03.16, 09:33
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1. Highly improbable.
Jules   (03.04.16)
This report seems to be a fake. Ukraine in not war-torn at all. There is a small region in the South-East currently under control of pro-Russian separatists, and that's all. Anti-Semitism in Ukraine is a thing of the past.
2. To Cary Perzow
Steven ,   Rockville MD USA   (03.05.16)
In Baby Yar in WW2 Ukrainian Jews mostly from Kiev were killed by the occupying Nazi Army of Hitler by shooting and bayonetting them to their grave pre-dug by the victims. You are wrong, the killers were not Ukrainians, although many Ukrainians joined Hitler's army. The killing-field was beautifully memorialized in a poem by the famous Soviet/Ukrainian Yevtuschenko. It is worthwhile to Google the poem, I think it is called Bab Yar. Anti-Semitism was always very strong in Ukrainian part of the Soviet Union, which I felt in person during that time. I do not know what is the situation today, but I can presume it is still exists.
3. Ukrainian Jews should not wait for the second Holocaust.
Dani   (03.13.16)
They should pack up and flee to Israel while they still can. Google "pravyi sektor", you will see a lot of nazi symbolic in every photo. They are not even trying to hide who they are.
4. Ukrainians are Pathological Antisemits
Shura ,   Toronto   (06.22.17)
As the Ukrainian Jew who lived in the Soviet Ukraine (South-East Part) I can testify that my biggest problem in living among Ukrainians in 1970-s and 1980-s was unconditional, zoological hatred of Ukrainians directed towards Jews. I can make a list of my Ukrainian neighbors who would in no doubt kill me and my family if the police cruisers disappear for couple of days from the city streets.

Me and my family experienced hatred, humiliation, verbal and physical assault everywhere: high school, university, military service, public transit, sport and cultural events, beaches, parks, parties, social events etc. My personal experience with Ukrainian anti-Semitism gives me right to call shamefully large number (but not all) of Ukrainians – Nazis.

Another shameful issue is that in hundreds anti-Semitic assaults that I personally experienced no single Ukrainian who was not participated in the anti-Semitic assaults against me, but witnessed the assault, did not interfere to defend me verbally or physically.

During my mandatory service in the Soviet Army I was defended from Ukrainians not by my the Soviet commander or political commissar (who both were Ukrainians), but by three Russian soldiers and two Uzbek. Otherwise I would have been maimed or murdered by the Ukrainians.

For hundred years Ukrainians killed and raped Jews in pogroms and massacres. The intensity of Ukrainian sadism towards Jews has no parallels in history. What crime Jews should have perpetrated to deserve such an atrocities in the hands of their Ukrainian neighbors? Being unable to explain their genetic hatred, Ukrainian anti-Semits repeat Hitler Nazis lies about Bolshevik-Jews “crimes” as an excuse. Sure, Bogdan Khmelnitsky, the Ukrainian Hetman, murdered tens of thousands of Jews in 17 century because Lev Trotsky became the first Minister of Defence of the Soviet Russia in the 20-the century.
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