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World Jewish News
Less Anti-Semitic Literature in Ukraine
27.01.2009
The Ukrainian Jewish Committee notes the significant advancement of law enforcement bodies of Ukraine in the sphere of combating the trade in anti-Semitic and fascist publications, most of which are prohibited for distribution in many European countries.
UJC said that due to repeated addresses by leaders of the Jewish Community of Ukraine to the President of Ukraine, Minister of Internal Affairs and Chairman of the Security Service, as well as substantial task work from the MIA department in Kiev - the fascist and anti-Semitic literature has disappeared from book markets in Ukrainian capital, despite the previous wide range of literature that was freely available all these years.
UJC said that besides Hitler's "Mein Kamf", in Kiev one could easily buy works of the leaders of the Ku Klux Klan movement, as well as works by a number of Ukrainian and Russian ideologues of anti-Semitism.
UJC President A. Feldman sent letters of gratitude to the leadership of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs of Ukraine and its department in Kiev. In the letters he approved of the work of the metropolitan police officers.
However, the UJC is worried about the fact that literature of fascist and national-extremist character is still actively sold in the chain of Interregional Academy of Personnel Management bookstores.
On this issue, UJC is going to once again appeal to the law enforcement authorities, the Ministry of Education and the State Committee of Information.
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