Russia's War Against Ukraine
Alexander J. Motyl: Ukraine’s chief rabbi refutes Putin’s anti-Semitic charges
Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich, a chief rabbi of Ukraine, accused Russia of staging anti-Semitic \u201cprovocations\u201d in Crimea in order to justify its invasion of the former Soviet republic. At a press conference in the Manhattan office of the United Jewish Communities of Eastern Europe, Bleich compared Russia's behavior to that of the Nazis prior to the Anschluss invasion of Austria in 1938.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his supporters in Russia and the West have accused the Ukrainian opposition that led the fight against the criminal Yanukovych regime and the democratic Ukrainian government that succeeded that regime of being fascist, neo-Nazi, and anti-Semitic.
