Speech of the Vice President of the World Jewish Congress, co-President of the Association of Jewish Communities and Organizations (Vaad) Ukraine Andrei Adamovsky.
The triumphal procession of virtual Palestinian independence on the European continent is one of the factors that have consistently and irreversiblyburied the long deceased peace process deep below the ground.
The active surveillance, monitoring, and analysis of anti-Semitic manifestations in Ukraine over the last 25 years allows us to elucidate important tendencies in the dynamic of how this particular brand of xenophobia manifests itself. The number of anti-Semitic incidents has been steadily declining, with a short peak in 2005–2007.
It is too intellectually lazy, not to mention dangerous, to stand on the 50-yard line and assert that the two combatants -- a democratic nation seeking nothing from Gaza other than a quiet border, and a terrorist regime calling in its Charter for the elimination of Israel -- are little more than mirror images of one another.
In view of widespread attempts over recent times to manipulate the issues of anti-Semitism and xenophobia, the National Minority Rights Monitoring Group which monitors xenophobia in Ukraine has carried out a comparative study of the number of crimes based on ethnic, racial or religious hatred in Ukraine and in Russia.
