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| By: Israel Insider staff and partners |
| Published: February 22, 2007 |
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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Thursday urged the government of Ukraine to take action in response to recent incidents of anti-Semitism there, including the desecration of a memorial to Jewish victims of the Holocaust and a cemetery in Odessa, and the continued operation of regional branches of an anti-Semitic university in defiance of an order to close.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that "those who committed this crime discredit Ukraine ... where there is no place for anti-Semitism and other forms of xenophobia."
In a letter to H.E. Oleh Shamshur, the Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States, the ADL urged the government to take additional steps to marginalize the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management (MAUP), which continues to promote anti-Semitic meetings and conferences and anti-Jewish statements.
On February 20, the Kiev Court on Economic Affairs ruled that 26 regional branches of MAUP could continue to operate, reversing a September 2006 decision by the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science that had ordered them shut. The ruling came just one day after a monument to Jewish victims of the Holocaust in Odessa was defaced with swastikas and the message, "Congratulations on the Holocaust," and an estimated 300 Jewish gravestones were similarly desecrated with graffiti.
Ynetnews contributed to this article. |
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