Outrage in Kiev

Babi Yar now




Babi Yar then


Hat tip to the Orange County Independent Task Force on Anti-Semitism

The below article concerns anti-Semitic graffiti on a Jewish building in Kiev, Ukraine, which occurred on April 20 (Hitler's birthday). The article and accompanying photo are linked below.

http://octaskforce.wordpress.com/2010/04/22/director-of-chabad-youth-organization-in-kiev-i-fear-for-childrens-lives/


In 1994, I visited Kiev twice as part of a DEA training seminar for drug police from the now-independent republics of the former-USSR. While there, the Ukrainian cops took me to Babi Yar, the site of the infamous Nazi massacre of Kiev's Jewish population (over 30,000 were machine-gunned to death over a two-day period in 1941). Babi Yar was a ravine at that time just outside the city (Yar in Ukrainian means ravine.) It is now part of the city, and has become a memorial park to the victims of the massacre. It is an unfortunate historical fact that once occupied by the Nazis, Ukrainians became accomplices to the killing of their Jews. To think that this stain is now back in the open makes me very sad.

I lay the blame for this resurgence in world-wide anti-Semitism squarely at the feet of the lies and gross distortions against Israel by the pro-Palestinian supporters both in the Middle East and the West.

This is the result of that campaign of hate against Israel.