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Jews being threatened in Donetsk
« on: April 18, 2014, 06:10:31 AM »
Pro-Russian revolutionary authority in Donetsk has been distributing leaflets to the 15,000 Jewish community in Donetsk,telling the Jews to pay USD 50 to register their details and list property..or face being deported from the so-called Donetsk republic,a self-proclaimed state declared earlier this month by several hundred activists who occupied the regional administration building and the city hall buildings in the city.


In March,leaders of Ukraine's Jewish communities published an open letter denouncing Russian anti-Semitism and criticising Putin.

Just saying it like it is.

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Re: Jews being threatened in Donetsk
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2014, 06:46:03 AM »
That story has been exposed as a likely hoax, even by pro-Ukrainian journalists.

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Ukraine Is Not Ordering Its Jews to Register

Today, the Western press caught up with the Ukrainian rumor mill: apparently, the People's Republic of Donetsk had ordered all Jews over the age of 16 to pay a fee of $50 U.S. and register with the new "authorities," or face loss of citizenship or expulsion. This was laid out in officious-looking fliers pasted on the local synagogue. One local snapped a photo of the fliers and sent it to a friend in Israel, who then took it to the Israeli press and, voila, an international scandal: American Twitter is abuzz with it, Drudge is hawking it, and, today in Geneva, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry slammed the fliers as "grotesque."

The Donetsk Jewish community dismissed this as "a provocation," which it clearly is...

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117415/relax-ukraine-not-ordering-its-jews-register

That article was written by Julia Ioffe from "The New Republic".  Her work covering this crisis seems to have been very good.
« Last Edit: April 18, 2014, 07:45:29 AM by Larry1 »

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Re: Jews being threatened in Donetsk
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2014, 07:59:36 AM »
That story has been exposed as a likely hoax, even by pro-Ukrainian journalists.

Edited to provide backup:

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117415/relax-ukraine-not-ordering-its-jews-register

That article was written by Julia Ioffe from "The New Republic".  Her work covering this crisis seems to have been very good.

Isn't she like the unofficial Kremlin's mouthpiece?
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Re: Jews being threatened in Donetsk
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2014, 08:01:06 AM »
I see a lot of speculation in that article by Julie Ioffe...plenty of mays,think,possible.

The fact remains the leaflets were distributed..so no hoax in what has been reported as actually happened so far,and yes she is correct when she says UKRAINE  is not ordering its Jews to register...no one said the country was.

The leaflet says the Jews have until 3rd May to register..so no-one would have been forced to register yet anyway.

Whether it will actually be enforced  remains to be seen...and it certainly won't be if the pro-Russian activists no longer control the region.
« Last Edit: April 18, 2014, 08:05:25 AM by Chelseaboy »
Just saying it like it is.

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Re: Jews being threatened in Donetsk
« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2014, 08:20:00 AM »

Isn't she like the unofficial Kremlin's mouthpiece?

I wouldn't say so.  Here are a few highlights from her recent pieces on Ukraine and Russia:

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Russia Has Basically Invaded Ukraine Again

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Russia, in other words, needs not just to destabilize the new government in Kiev, but to make sure the country never joins the E.U. or NATO, and that it remains weak and pliable, if not an outright vassal state. 

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A week before the Olympic Games opened in Sochi, the Kremlin sicced its hounds on Dozhd TV, the last independent news channel in Russia. The channel has been around since the spring of 2010, when the warm breeze of pseudo liberalization swept through Moscow at the height of Dmitry Medvedev's pseudo liberalization.

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Booting Russia from the G8 Ends 16 Years of Pretending Moscow Should Sit at the Big-Kids Table

Five minutes reading her articles about Russia would have one of our RW members calling her a Russophobe.

They can be found here:

http://www.newrepublic.com/authors/julia-ioffe

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