508 anti-Semitic acts (violent actions and threats) have been registered for the period from 1 January to 31 May 2015, an increase of 84% compared to the same period of 2014 and 161% compared to 2013.
Anti-Semitism has long become an important component of the official ideology and propaganda of the puppet regimes declared on the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, occupied by Russia
Russia’s Foreign Ministry is again aware of ‘pogroms’ that experienced researchers of anti-Semitism and xenophobia in Ukraine and human rights groups would seem to have not noticed.
The National Coalition Supporting Eurasian Jewry (NCSEJ) condemns the deplorable statements made last week by pro-Russian rebel leader Igor Plotnitsky.
On June 16, 2015, the leader of the pro-Russian puppet regime of the so-called “Luhansk People’s Republic” Igor Plotnitsky made yet another anti-Semitic statement while giving a talk in the Russian Federation.
Exactly one month after the arrest in Crimea was reported of an alleged member of the ‘Azov’ Battalion, the man remains unnamed, but the list of his supposed offences now includes an attack on a synagogue and on a mosque, as well as on the prosecutor’s office.