Here's The Flyer Ordering Jews To register In Eastern Ukraine, And According To BI, It Says..

[WillyT]

An informal translation of the flyer, by Paul Goble of The Interpreter, is below:

Respected citizens of Jewish nationality! Given that the leaders of the Jewish community of Ukraine support the Banderite junta in Kiev and are hostile to the Orthodox Donetsk Republic and its citizens, the Main Staff of the Donetsk Republic orders the following:

All citizens of Jewish nationality over the age of 16 who live on the territory of the sovereign Donetsk Republic must before May 3, 2014, appear before the Donetsk Republic commissar for nationality affairs in Room 514 of the government’s offices. The cost of registration is 50 US dollars.

In addition to the sum of 50 US dollars, those registering must bring their passports so that their religious affiliation can be entered, documents about the members of their families, and also notarized documents about all the real estate and means of transportation you own.

Those who refuse to register will be deprived of citizenship and forcibly expelled from the republic and their property will be confiscated.

Link: http://www.businessinsider.com/flyers-in-ukraine-demand-jews-to-register-2014-4

[chrisstopher]

1. Really, really bad

This could start another world war.

[CFLDem]

2. Nope, nothing to see here folks!

Peace, peace, peace, peace, white doves, flowers, rainbows, peace, peace, peace.

[undeterred]

3. I thought this would be some kind of historical document.

[ZombieHorde]

4. I really hope this turns out to be a hoax,

as the article suggests they could be.

[TeeYiYi]

9. Admits distributing but denies content...

In a response to a request by a Ukrainian Jewish website, Pushilin, the interim government's regional chairman, confirmed that the flyers were distributed by his organization, but denied any connection to the leaflet's content.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4510688,00.html

This story is so disturbing!
TYY

[penultimate]

18. Hmmm... Why would they distribute something like that if they didn't condone the content?

I'm skeptical of the whole thing, because it seems a bit convenient and vary damning. But they are admitting to distributing it?

[malthaussen]

5. So it's a moneymaking scam.

A "government" of no legitimacy is threatening its "citizens" with exile if they don't pony up. Looks like just a thin gloss to cover another pogrom.
And "officially" repudiated by the putative signatory.

-- Mal

[onehandle]

6. Anatevka, Anatevka. Underfed, overworked Anatevka.

[COLGATE4]

7. Thanks for posting this beautiful clip.

Unfortunately history seems to repeat itself with Jews in the Pale with frightening frequency.

[Raksha]

12. This song always brings tears to my eyes.

My "Anatevka" is Vadul-Rashkov, on the west side of the Dnestr River, and Kamenetz-Podolsk, on the east side.

[frazzled]

13. My grandparents came from Kamenetz-Litovsk

Which is in what is now Belarus. (It was sometimes in Poland, sometimes in Russia, near Brest).

[Jenoch]

8. There is no such thing as the Donetsk Republic.

[Coventina]

10. If this is not a hoax, it is terrifying.

Sometimes I hate my species.....

[Dr Hobbitstein]

11. So, a state that doesn't exist, except in a small building, is demanding money from

Jews?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donetsk_People%27s_Republic

Sounds like a Nigerian prince scam...

[Madam Mossfern]

14. Why would they be asking for US dollars?

Sounds very suspect to me.

[cthulu2016]

15. Not commenting on this itself, but US dollars are the practical savings currency in

a lot of the former USSR.

Many or most Russians, for instance, keep their life savings in Amwerican $100 bills, for which they pay well over $100 in value. It is the ultimate trustworthy paper currency. (Though Euros have probably replaced some American currency.)

Under the USSR the currency was not pegged to anything and was essentially worthless for any international purpose. That's the cultural sense of money... dollars (and Euros) are real.

[winter is coming]

16. I wonder which RW American warmonger arranged this.

Yeah, it's , but can you think of anything more likely to draw us into a war, absent a nuclear attack?

[KamaAina]

17. I call BS

US dollars?!

Plus there's this:

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117415/ukraine-not-ordering-its-jews-register

Today, the Western press caught up with the Ukrainian rumor mill: apparently, the People's Republic of Donetsk had ordered all Jews over the age of 16 to pay a fee of $50 U.S. and register with the new "authorities," or face loss of citizenship or expulsion. This was laid out in officious-looking fliers pasted on the local synagogue. One local snapped a photo of the fliers and sent it to a friend in Israel, who then took it to the Israeli press and, voila, an international scandal: American Twitter is abuzz with it, Drudge is hawking it, and, today in Geneva, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry slammed the fliers as "grotesque."

The Donetsk Jewish community dismissed this as "a provocation," which it clearly is. "It's an obvious provocation designed to get this exact response, going all the way up to Kerry," says Fyodr Lukyanov, editor of Russia in Global Affairs. "I have no doubt that there is a sizeable community of anti-Semites on both sides of the barricades, but for one of them to do something this stupid—this is done to compromise the pro-Russian groups in the east."

Why? The Russian government has been playing up the (real but small) role of fascists and neo-Nazis in the victory of the EuroMaidan in Kiev. The Ukrainian government, utterly powerless to fight off the Russians and their local stooges, have had to rely on other methods, like leaking taped phone calls of allegedly local separatists getting their commands from Moscow. This may be just another tactic to smear the so-called anti-Maidan in the east of Ukraine: you think we're fascists? Well, take a look at these guys.

Indeed, the Russian web chatter has sniffed the hand of the Dnipropetrovsk city government. (Dnipropetrovsk is another eastern Ukrainian city, but one that has been spared this chaos, in part because of the firm hand of its new regional governor, Jewish businessman Ihor Kolomoisky. One (Jewish) blogger said he received a similar looking flier from an official in the Dnipropetrovsk city administration.

[penultimate]

19. Did they say they did in fact distribute it though?

It sounds like they are saying they did distribute it, but they had nothing to do with the content of it. That part of it confuses me.

[AverageJoe90]

20. No surprises here.

For all the bluster about the fascists who inexplicably(and suddenly, btw! In January of this year, no less!) aligned themselves with Maidan, it's now clear that the pro-Putin side has always had the larger problem with *all* sorts of bigotry and hatred, including anti-Semitism. At least the majority of Maidan protesters are genuinely non-racist and anti-authoritarian: I'm afraid the same can't be said for the other side, however.

(And, btw, I wouldn't be surprised if far right-wing Western interests might also be involved.....on the side of Putin!)

[LiberalAndProud]

21. self-proclaimed, self-styled. Very disturbing.

UPDATE: Pushilin has denied the Novosti Donbassa's report and assured reporters that the flyer is not from his organisation.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/donetsk-pro-russians-order-jews-register-be-deported-supporting-kiev-rule-1445111

[kelliekat44]

22. Somebody high up had better get on international media and deny that this is real. Or....nt