Fears of Anti-Semitism Spread in Ukraine

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3. That edit came just in time.

Because your original post made me pretty mad.

I'm Jewish, and I'm reasonably well-informed. I didn't say that "all is well" -- moreover, no Jew with my background (which is likely similar to yours) will ever assume that "all is well" for Jews in Ukraine. The whole part of the world gives me the creeps.

What I said was that the specific rabbi that your article cites, and whose inflammatory comment was widely quoted, is in fact a Chabadnik. In the ex-Soviet context, Chabad = Putin. It really is a shameful alliance, and one that's dangerous to all Jews in the region.

What is fact -- not propaganda -- is that Jews in Ukraine, the ones who are actually at risk, have generally been pro-Maidan. The Putin regime -- a Russian regime, and there's no f*cking reason on earth to think that a Russian regime cares about Jews -- is simultaneously telling the world that Maidan is entirely Nazi, while saying internally that Maidan is a Jewish (and gay!) conspiracy. Now that's propaganda.