Michael:

No, I want to maintain good relations between Ukrainians and Jews, and to improve those relations.  However, there are many Jews who want to incite anti-Semitism in Ukraine with the chief end of stampeding what remains of Ukraine's Jewish scientists and engineers into fleeing to Israel.  I am so pro-Semitic that I don't want any more of these Jewish scientists and engineers to flee to Israel; and I am so pro-Semitic that I even want the tens of thousand of Ukrainian Jewish scientists and engineers who have left Ukraine to return.

The Ukrainian anti-Semitism that one hears about incessantly is the creation of Zionists who need it to promote and to continue one of history's grandest brain thefts.  That is the chief reason that the depiction of Ukrainians as sub-human, anti-Semitic brutes has been so incessant, and that is why it cannot be stopped by reason and evidence, and that is why it is going to continue.  And that is why, also, the discussion of Ukrainian-Jewish relations constitutes one of the most important topics that can be discussed under the rubric of POLITICS � the discussion of Ukrainian-Jewish relations is a discussion of the mechanism of Ukraine's loss of some of its most talented citizens whose loss could make the difference between economic success and failure, between political independence and subjugation.

This position forces me to oppose those many Jews who are trying to incite anti-Semitism in Ukraine.

I hope that you will agree that accusing some Jews of falsely shouting "fire" in a crowded theater which is not burning is not the same as anti-Semitism.  I hope that you will agree that accusing some Jews of a theft which they openly plan and openly carry out is not the same as anti-Semitism.