Antisemitism in russia, antisemitism in Ukraine 🧵
“We’re seeing rising antisemitism while Russia is going back to a new kind of Soviet Union, and step by step the Iron Curtain is coming down again. This is why I believe the best option for Russian Jews is to leave” Goldschmidt said.jta.org/2023/01/03/glo…
"Goldschmidt said it was remarkable that Volodymyr Zelenskiy,who made no secret of his Jewishness,was elected Ukraine’s president with more than 70% of the vote.That fact made a nonsense of Putin’s claim that Ukraine was being governed by neo-Nazis" theguardian.com/world/2022/dec…
"Antisemitism in Europe: Ukraine turns out to be the most friendly to Jews" ukrainianjewishencounter.org/en/news/antise…
"Today I interviewed Avraham Wolff, the Chief rabbi of Odesa. When I told him that some foreigners still think that Ukraine is infested with Nazis, he was shocked."
"The Menorah center (Ukrainian: Центр "Менора") is a cultural and business center of the Jewish community in Dnipro in Eastern Ukraine. Some sources declare it to be the biggest multifunctional Jewish community center in Europe or in the world." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menorah_c…
"The Russian-speaking citizens of Ukraine are not being humiliated or discriminated against, their civil rights have not been limited. Meanderings about “forced Ukrainization” and “bans on the Russian language” that have been so common in Russian media...
... "are on the heads of those who invented them. Your certainty of the growth of anti-Semitism in Ukraine also does not correspond to the actual facts..."
".. It seems you have confused Ukraine with russia, where Jewish organizations have noticed growth in anti-Semitic tendencies last year..."
Open letter of Ukrainian Jews to Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin, March 4, 2014
ukrainianjewishencounter.org/media/Putin20L…
vaadua.org/news/obrashche…
@CinC_AFU General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with @RabbiUkraine Chief Rabbi Of Ukraine Moshe Azman
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