What: you can’t read Russian? Or is it Ukrainian?? Is there a difference? Anyway, let me help you with the translation. What this little leaflet says is:

“Dear citizens of the lovely city of Donetsk; we hope you’re having a nice day and supporting the Russian cause by shooting any pro-Ukranians you can find and joining the cause to revert to the motherland, where glory, love and Putin will be our just rewards.
Meanwhile, any members of ‘the Jewish Nation’ need to register all their assets and property with the pro-Russian governors immediately, for a fee of just $50 (and please don’t try to negotiate, haggle of ask for a discount for cash). Failure to do will result in you being deported to… er… well, deported anyway, let’s leave it at that.”

No word of a lie. Except the ones I made up. The Russians are demanding that ‘members of the Jewish Nation’ have to ‘register’ with the authorities. And you simply have to ask yourself why? Not just the paranoid among us, not just those who have read holocaust tales all their lives and know that you have to know your victims before you can persecute, isolate and whatever to them, but any right-minded person has to ask the question Why????

Never mind that the jews aren’t a ‘nation’. They are a people. There is a Jewish Nation; its called Israel but probably isn’t even recognised by the anti-semites of Donetsk. Jewishness is a religion, a culture, a lot of great food, but a nation? No. That its not.

But the Jews of Donetsk are having to do this on threat of this ‘deportation’ even though they are Ukrainian citizens, as they will have been for generations, and they are fully integrated into the full richness of Ukraine life. Whatever the fuck that might be.
There are about 15,000 jews in a population of about one million in the city, 1.5 million if you count all the inbred farmer types and agricultural, knuckle-dragging peasants from the whole region.

So why this sudden need for registration? The only reason is to identify this group so that ‘something’ can be done to them/ with them/ about them. And registering their possessions and assets is only so it can be stolen, ‘removed’, ‘repossessed’ or ‘borrowed’. Just like the nazis did. So what next; yellow stars to be worn? Forced removal to ghettos? ‘Confiscation’ of all property?? Crystalnacht all over again???

I don’t know why Eastern Europe is so terribly anti-semitic. But it is. Jews just want to work hard, enjoy family life, eat fatty foods and pray now and again. They don’t evangelise, they don’t eat babies, they don’t riot (only in my house) and they are generally peaceful, law-abiding folk. Yet time and again they are persecuted, robbed, evicted and murdered.

So yes, as they say, ‘just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re NOT out to get you’.

This leaflet, whether you can read it or not, is pure fucking evil.

Not again.

Happy Good Friday; may your eggs be chocolate, your prayers answered and your Russians rot in hell.

A xxxx