Ukrainian Justice Ministry has ruled that using the derogatory term “zhyd” to describe a Jew was legal, turning back a petition demanding that the word be banned from the public sphere for being offensive to the county’s Jewish population.
According to reports Wednesday in the Ukrainian media, Eleanor Grossman, the editor of the “Jewish Kyiv” website, had appealed to the ministry to block right-wing nationalists from using the term, whose equivalent is pronounced “yid” in English.
