Kiev's Jews told to flee

Israel Matzav ^ | 2/22/14 | Carl in Jerusalem

[familyop]

It appears that every political subgroup in Ukraine has had individuals and/or small groups that indulged in antisemitism.

Anti-semitism in Ukraine
http://www.jta.org/tags/anti-semitism-in-ukraine

I wrote “every political subgroup” because of information from several sources like that in the last paragraph of the posted article above this thread. There’s antisemitism in every country in the world, and especially threatening levels of it in most autocratic nations.

Funny thing: though I was trained long ago to “kill commies for mommy” (Army), I had friendly, face-to-face chats with former Russian soldiers and commanders during the ‘90s (immigrants). But political civilians, they go on and on with expansionist pushes and hostilities in favor nations with leaders who murder their citizens to prevent free speech—nations that want to be evil empires.

I’m generally opposed to empires and in favor of independence and freedom for every nation that can’t get along with another. Antisemitism is historically worse in empires without contemporary freedoms (like political speech), and the wrong kind of assimilation (toward idolatry) is much more common in the more dictatorial empires. As bad as things are now in the U.S.A. with a few constituents getting too much control in politics and the consequent economic decline, it’s still a better country than the others.

[SJackson]

Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

..................