The rise of anti-Semitism in Ukraine is barely noticed in the State Department’s recent International Religious Freedom Report for 2012. This is especially alarming, because even in the best of times, anti-Semitism is as prevalent in Ukraine as coal in Newcastle.
The collapse of the Soviet Union gave rise to nationalist far-right organizations as well radical Muslim groups with anti-Semitism as their common denominator. Europe’s current financial woes have also led to the rise of new neo-fascist groups such as Hungary’s Jobbik party, known for its vile anti-Semitic propaganda, and the far right extremist Greece’s Golden Dawn, with its swastika-like flag and symbols, and aspiration ”to become…like Hezbollah in Lebanon.”
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