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Ukrainian Jewish leaders protest gathering of JAFI board of governors in Kyiv; opponents say confab sanctions anti-Semitism.

Ukrainian Jewish leaders, academics and activists are protesting a gathering of the Jewish Agency’s board of governors that is slated to take place in Kyiv in June.

Josef Zissels, chairman of the Vaad of Ukraine and of the General Council of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, sent a letter protesting against the conference to the agency’s chairman Natan Sharansky and members of its board stating that his opposition was due to the unmistakable “assault on political and social rights and freedoms of Ukrainian citizens.”

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