KIEV REVOLT LED BY NEO-NAZIS AND RIGHT WING ANTI-SEMITES - THEY'RE CHASING AND INJURING JEWS NOW

Israeli Couple Saved From Lynch Mob in Kiev - In separate incidents Rabbi is stabbed, and synagogue is firebombed

Possibly pro-Russian rioters chase couple with sticks in Kiev's central square; miraculously the two manage to escape to synagogue.

 

An Israeli couple in Ukraine's capital city of Kiev were rescued from a near-lynching last Friday, right before Shabbat.

Zalman Hetzklovich and his wife were walking in Kiev's Independence Square in the center of the city, when eight Ukrainians wearing uniforms and holding sticks suddenly leaped out of a van at them.
 

The Ukrainians pointed at the couple, shouting in Russian for them to stop.
 

"I understood that if I didn't run at that moment it would be the end of us," reported Hetzklovich. "I stopped a taxi and got in with my wife, asking the driver to get us out of there. The attackers surrounded the car and demanded the driver stop."
 

"The driver stepped on the gas and knocked over the rioters, who succeeded in damaging one side of the cab. The driver was able to drive one block away until he reached a traffic jam; we saw the pursuers were back, and had gotten into their car, starting to chase after us," recounted Hetzklovich.

The Israeli couple proceeded to get out of the taxi and run on foot several streets away, until they reached a synagogue, where they realized they had miraculously managed to escape.
 

'We bought them tickets back to Israel the same evening'
 

Rabbi Hillel Cohen, Chairman of the Kiev Hatzala emergency rescue organization, who was stabbed last Thursday by anti-Semites, spoke about the incident.
 

The rabbi, who was released from the hospital Saturday, said "we called up the police today during the Purim holiday to present a complaint, but apparently the government in Ukraine is dealing with more pressing problems at the moment."
 

"Apparently they were provocateurs that hit and stabbed me last Thursday night," noted the rabbi, adding "it's starting to come clear that there are pro-Russian rioters wanting to cause anarchy and chaos for the Ukrainian government."
 

Regarding the Israeli couple, the rabbi noted that "due to the tensions and danger, and after submitting the complaint, we got return tickets for them to Israel the same evening."
 

Extremists have reportedly been targeting the Jewish community in Ukraine, with even a member of the opposition getting in on the action. A synagogue was firebombed in late February by unknown assailants, and at least one synagogue in Crimea has also been defaced.
 

Meanwhile tensions between Ukraine and Russia continued to escalate Sunday, as a referendum vote was held to determine whether the Crimean Peninsula would become part of Russia, which effectively occupied the peninsula last month, or remain part of Ukraine.
 

The vote would finalize or overturn a vote by Crimea's parliament earlier this month to join Russia.

Tags: Anti-Semitism, Ukraine, Kiev, Rabbi Hillel Cohen

Link to story - http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/178553#.UyXd6ZuPKM8

 

Kiev Rabbi who was stabbed had said he felt safe in Kiev

 

The Kiev police are investigating a severe anti-Semitic incident that occurred Thursday, in which Rabbi Hillel Cohen, Chairman of the Kiev Hatzala emergency rescue organization, was stabbed.

 

The rabbi had told Arutz Sheva three weeks earlier that he feels safe.

The rabbi was assaulted by a group of men who yelled anti-Semitic insults and struck him with clubs, then reportedly stabbed him. His wife Racheli told JTA that attackers "struck him in the leg, shouting anti-Semitic slurs, calling him a 'zyhd' [Ukrainian word for 'kike']... This was clearly an anti-Semitic attack."

 

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THE DARK SIDE OF THE UKRAINE REVOLT

 

“You’d never know from most of the reporting that far-right nationalists and fascists have been at the heart of the protests and attacks on government buildings,” reports Seumas Milne of the British Guardian. The most prominent of the groups has been the ultra-right-wing Svoboda or “Freedom” Party.

 

Svoboda—which currently has thirty-six deputies in the 450-member Ukrainian parliament—began life in the mid-1990s as the Social National Party of the Ukraine, but its roots lie in World War II, when Ukrainian nationalists and Nazis found common ground in the ideology of anti-communism and anti-Semitism. In April 1943, Dr. Otto von Wachter, the Nazi commander of Galicia—the name for western Ukraine—turned the First Division of the Ukrainian National Army into the 14 Grenadier Division of the Waffen SS, the so-called “Galicia Division.”

 

The Waffen SS was the armed wing of the Nazi Party, and while serving alongside the regular army, or Wehrmacht, the party controlled the SS’s thirty-eight-plus divisions. While all Nazi forces took part in massacres and atrocities, the Waffen SS did so with particular efficiency. The postwar Nuremberg trials designated it a “criminal organization.”

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