Alexander Levin (R) at UN event
Photo: Shahar Azran
Russian Jewry forum announced at UN
New international Jewish organization to act as intermediary between US, Russia and other countries in bid to primarily influence their governments to join world’s fight against Iran
A new international Jewish organization tagged "The World Forum of Russian Jewry" was announced last week at the United Nations during a ceremony commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 70th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre with the participation of nearly 600 American Russian-speaking Jews and Holocaust survivors.
The newly-established organization was declared by Alexander L. Levin, president of the Greater Kiev Jewish Community, who will serve as president.
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The essential forum will act as a bridge between East and West, an intermediary between the United States, Russia and other countries, and to primarily influence their governments to join the world’s fight against Iran.
“I have the honor to announce today that we, the Russian-speaking Jews of the world, have established a new organization, ‘The World Forum of Russian-Speaking Jewry,’” declared Levin at the UN Headquarters in New York.
“Our goal is to bring together Russian-speaking Jews from around the world in order to save ourselves and other people from the next catastrophe and genocide, to preserve the world peace, and protect our national land at the State of Israel.”
Levin (L) with Israeli Ambassador Ron Prosor (Photo: Shahar Azran)
The commemorative conference was organized by The American Forum of Russian Jewry with the support of the Permanent Mission of Ukraine and Israel to the United Nations.
Ukraine’s Ambassador to the UN Yuriy Sergeyev and Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor, as well as David Harris, executive director of American Jewish Committee, Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents, and other Jewish leaders from around the world participated in the event.
Kiyotaka Akasaka, United Nations under-secretary-general, also addressed the participants in attendance.
In his keynote speech, Levin spoke of the horrific events of Babi Yar and the Wannsee Conference 70 years ago, and how the new World Forum aims to combat the modern anti-Semitism, xenophobia and Holocaust denial.
To that point, Levin also emphatically brought up the increasingly worrisome issue of Iranian nuclear aspirations.
“Standing here on this stage, I would like to remind you that there is today a member country of the United Nations that is currently on the road to obtaining a nuclear weapon, whose president, without blinking an eye, tells the humanity that the Holocaust is a deception and that it never occurred,” Levin added.
“We, the Russian-speaking Jews from the far-flung corner of the Earth, stand ready to unite against him and the nuclear program of Iran. We will not let another Holocaust engulf us!”
