Ukraine: Jews Claim White Students — and Teachers — Beat Jewish Teenagers

THIS STORY from Israel’s YnetNews may be the least credible article on the wires in recent days this side of The Onion. Apparently the “anti-Semitism” is so bad in Ukraine that high school students there are beating Jewish teenagers with total impunity — and even the teachers are joining in! (ILLUSTRATION: Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein)

Ukrainian Jews flee to Israel amid anti-Semitism in war torn country

Sisters Marina and Alexandra Prokopovych were beaten at their high school in Rakytne, with even teachers joining in the beating; their father Dmytro suffered fourteen concussions from similar attacks during his childhood.

The teachers joined in? That’s bad. All the teachers? And Dad suffered 14 concussions over, what, 30, 40, 50 years ago? And didn’t try to leave until now? And when he graduated, apparently, the beatings stopped? No more concussions? It’s just a school thing?

Over 100 Ukrainian Jews fled war-torn Ukraine and arrived in Israel this week as many have been leaving their country of birth due to violence and frequent anti-Semitic attacks.

They were assisted by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ), which has been spearheading a project of bringing Jews to Israel from countries engulfed by war.

Maybe it’s just me, but I hear about this IFCJ outfit a lot, and they never seem to rescue Christians or other Gentiles. Just Jews. What’s up with that?

IFCJ Director of Communications Tali Aronsky told Tazpit Press Service (TPS) that the girls were called “separatists” and “Zhids” (Jews) prior to the assault because they spoke Russian instead of Ukrainian.

Is this happening at all schools in Ukraine? Or just this one school? Must be all, since no overall school administrator tried to stop it, apparently. And they were called Zhids because they spoke Russian?

“The girls sustained serious injuries as a result. One suffered concussions and had to get stitches. Even the teachers joined in the beating. The father remembers similar things that happened when he was younger, but he decided that it was time to leave when it happened to his daughters,” she said.

Dmytro Prokopovych, the girls’ father, also remembers that he had switched schools three times due to his ethnicity. He himself suffered fourteen concussions from similar attacks during his childhood and he maintains that anti-Semitism is still very prevalent in post-Soviet Ukraine.

Yep, it’s all the schools in Ukraine. Switch, switch, switch and still there are those repeated concussions.

“I recently discovered that my family’s real surname is Evenbach and not Prokopovych. It was my grandfather’s surname. My father would not be admitted to university with this surname in Soviet times so he changed it to his mother’s maiden name,” Dmytro recalls.

Wait a minute. If changing the name was enough to get into university, why wasn’t it enough to avoid the beatings? Are elementary school and high school kids more Jew-wise than university administrators? Something’s not adding up here, Mr. Evenbach!

IFCJ founder Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein decided that efforts to rescue Jews in countries with prevailing anti-Semitism were insufficient. The IFCJ then began actively searching for Jews suffering in countries affected by war. Many of the immigrants receive additional funds since they were forced to leave behind homes that have become essentially worthless due to the conflicts.

Love that name “Yechiel.” Wonder where all these “funds” come from. Oh, yeah — that’s what the Christians are for in the International Federation of Christians and Jews!

“We don’t wait for the Ukrainians to call us up. We go to them and we also give them more support. We offer them $1,000 per family and $500 for every child in addition to what they get from the government,” Aronsky told TPS.

The new immigrants will be given guidance and career advice. Aronsky said that the organization has also reached out to other countries such as Venezuela, Uruguay, Turkey, and even several Arab countries and has managed to bring some 2,355 Jews to Israel. Aronsky was unable to divulge the identities of the Arab countries due to security concerns for the Jews involved.

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Source: YnetNews