Friday, March 25, 2016

Ukraine: 'Kill the Jews', 'Jews annexed Ukraine' painted on synagogue



Via JTA (h/t CFCA):
"Kill the Jews" was scrawled on a synagogue in the central Ukrainian city of Cherkasy.
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The graffiti was discovered Wednesday in Cherkasy, Eduard Dolinsky, the director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, wrote on Facebook. In addition to spray-painting the message of incitement to violence against Jews on an external wall, the perpetrators wrote: “Jews annexed Ukraine.”

The vandals used the word “zhyd” for Jews, which many Ukrainian Jews consider derogatory.

Dolinsky sarcastically described the inscription as “traditional congratulations for Purim.”
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