http://www.coalitionagainsthate.org/2008/03/27/ucsj-statement-blood-libel-novosibirsk Comments for "UCSJ Statement on Blood Libel in Novosibirsk" en http://www.coalitionagainsthate.org/2008/03/27/ucsj-statement-blood-libel-novosibirsk <p>Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union (UCSJ), a Jewish human rights organization that has worked in support of Jews in the FSU since 1970, is seriously concerned by <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/966611.html" target="_blank">media reports on flyers inciting violence against Jews in Novosibirsk, Russia last week.</a> Hundreds of blood libel flyers were found posted on homes and apartments in that city warning parents to protect their children from &quot;bloodthirsty Jews&quot; ahead of April 2008 Jewish holiday of Passover. The flyers warned that &quot;these disgusting people steal young children, draw their blood and use it to prepare their holy food. They throw the children's bodies in garbage dumps&quot;. This terrible and aggressive lie dates from the Middle Ages, when it regularly sparked pogroms, and was revived in the infamous &quot;Protocols of the Elders of Zion&quot;, the Beilis trial, and by Nazi Germany. Russian antisemites have used this xenophobic myth against Jews during the Soviet and post-Soviet period.</p> <p><a href="http://www.coalitionagainsthate.org/2008/03/27/ucsj-statement-blood-libel-novosibirsk">read more</a></p> http://www.coalitionagainsthate.org/2008/03/27/ucsj-statement-blood-libel-novosibirsk#comments Antisemitism Jews Russia Other Extremists Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:20:26 -0700 Nickolai Butkevich 300 at http://www.coalitionagainsthate.org