Spate of anti-Semitic incidents recorded in Eastern Europe
A string of anti-Semitic events and incidents have been
recorded in Ukraine, Poland and Hungary in recent days.
A swastika and neo-Nazi symbols was spray-painted last
week on a monument in Mykolaiv, near Odessa, to the late Lubavitcher rebbe,
Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
In Kiev, anti-Semitic flyers on Monday were placed on a
synagogue and other Jewish heritage sites, including a monument to the Jewish
author Sholom Aleichem and the former home of the late Israeli Prime Minister
Golda Meir.
According to Jewish News, a news website about Ukraine,
the posters contained profanities and calls for violence against Jews, who were
referred to as “trash.” The posters were signed by Svodoba, the name of a
nationalist movement with prominent members who have been accused of
anti-Semitism. Svoboda spokesman Ruslan Koshulinsky denied the party was behind
the posters.
In Lviv, in western Ukraine, soccer fans last week handed
out leaflets ahead of a match between their team, the Carpathians, and a team
from Odessa, Chernomorets, whose players are often referred to as “Jews.” The
posters were titled “Death to the Jews” and featured a picture of the main
entrance to the Auschwitz death camp, according to the Coordination Forum for
Countering Anti-Semitism.
In Poland, “Murder the Jews” was spray-painted on the
walls of a newly dedicated Jewish cemetery in Myslenice near Krakow, along with
a swastika and the symbol of the elite Nazi SS unit, the news website
miasto-info.pl reported.
On March 16, anti-Semitic slogans were chanted at an
anti-communist demonstration in Krakow, including “Down with Judaism” and “hit
them once with a sickle and twice with the hammer.”
In Hungary, stickers reading “Jews, the university is
ours, not yours” were placed on the doors of two University of Budapest
lecturers, Gyorgy Peter and Gruberne Welker Agnes. Earlier this month, a young
woman wearing a T-shirt with the logo "Auschwitz Holiday Camp" was
filmed attending a nationalist demonstration in Budapest.
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