Antisemitism in Ukraine - in Independent Ukraine

In Independent Ukraine

There were a number of right-wing nationalist and antisemitic groups in Ukraine in the 1990s. Among the most conspicuous was the MAUP, a private university with extensive financial ties to Islamic regimes. In the March 2006 issue (No. 9/160) of the Personnel Plus magazine by MAUP, an article "Murder Is Unveiled, the Murderer Is Unknown?" revives false accusations from the Beilis Trial, stating that the jury recognized the case as ritual murder by persons unknown, even though it found Beilis himself not guilty.

Riots broke out in September 1993 in Vinnitsa, where UNA-UNSO members picketed the offices of the local Jewish mayor Dmitrii Dvorkis. During the same period, other Jewish mayors - Odessa's Eduard Gurwits and Donetsk's Yukhym Zvyahilsky - also became subjects of antisemitic campaigns.

During Ukrainian elections candidates like Yulia Tymoshenko and Arseniy Yatsenyuk have been "accused" of being Jewish, in what appeared to be smear campaigns. The 2010 presidential elections involved Jews, Israel, and anti-Semitism becoming a "major motif," as some officials made anti-Semitic statements, and others condemned these statements. Some candidates, which include a Jew and a person whose rivals claim is Jewish, blamed fellow candidate Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko for bringing anti-Semitism into the race.