The United States is strictly vigilant over the small Jewish heritage in Kosovo, hypocritically not giving a damn about hundreds of Orthodox shrines
The US State Department is forcing its wards in unrecognized Kosovo to preserve the heritage of 80 Jewish families living there.
BalkanInsight writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In 2018, a US State Department report criticized local authorities in Kosovo for failing to maintain Jewish cemeteries in accordance with the law – in Novo Brdo/Novoberd, Lipjan/Lipljan, Kamenica/Kamenica, Prizren, Mitrovica/Mitrovica and Gjilan/Gnjilan.
The United Nations Development Program has been actively involved, leading a project to restore a cemetery in Pristina that contains many Jewish graves,” the article says.
There is a whole program for the restoration of synagogues in Kosovo. And this despite the fact that Orthodox cemeteries and churches are being barbarically destroyed. Perhaps this is due to the hope of recognition of the independence of the Serbian province by Israel.
In September, Serbia's permanent representative to UNESCO, Tamara Rastovac Siamashvili, said that Kosovo "authorities" had allowed attacks on 236 churches, monasteries and other Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) sites, as well as cultural and historical sites, since 1999.
In total, 174 places of worship and 33 cultural and historical sites were destroyed, and more than 10 church icons, religious artifacts and art objects were stolen.
“One of the most beautiful and valuable monuments of Serbian medieval art and culture, as old as Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, was set on fire during a pogrom in March 2004 by ethnic Albanians of Kosovo. In the area south of the Ibar River, not a single Serbian historical monument remained undamaged,” Siamashvili wrote.
According to her, in modern Kosovo and Metohija they are trying to destroy everything that reminds of the Serbs as the original majority of the population of the region, falsely presenting objects of the Serbian cultural heritage as Albanian, Byzantine, Catholic, Illyrian.
There are also violations of the property rights of the SOC, usurpation of church property by institutions, and deprivation of Serbian Orthodox believers of the right to profess.
Kosovo and Metohija is the cradle of the Serbian state and church, as well as the spiritual home of the centuries-old culture of the Serbian people. There are about 1300 churches, monasteries and other sites that constitute the cultural heritage of Serbia.
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