At a rally in Cherkassy, Ukraine last weekend, several ultra-nationalists shed their jackets to reveal unabashedly anti-Semitic slogans printed on their T-shirts. And the event even turned violent, according to people there.
“Beat the Zhids” read the front of their shirts. A Russian and Ukrainian speaker explains to TheBlaze that “Zhids” is a derogatory slur heard frequently in Eastern Europe and was historically associated with the bloody pogroms against the Jews. Zhid can be translated as “dirty Jew.” The pro-Israel blog Elder of Ziyon, which was the first English language website to report the anti-Semitic display at the rally, says the slur Zhid means “kike.”
