The Kiev office of the Anti-Defamation League will monitor Ukrainian anti-Semites
People's Deputy and President of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee Alexander Feldman initiated the opening of an office of the Anti-Defamation League in Kyiv.
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He announced this following the results of a working trip to the United States, writes the Kiev publication “Left Bank”.
According to the people's deputy, the possibility of opening a Ukrainian office was discussed during a meeting with representatives of the Anti-Defamation League in New York.
“The Anti-Defamation League is ready to work in Ukraine, ready to carry out monitoring activities. Activists of the organization also proposed to organize and conduct appropriate training for Ukrainian police officers,” Feldman said.
“The Anti-Defamation League today works in many countries around the world. The basis of its activities is monitoring, within which manifestations of hostility and hatred are recorded, the activity of right-wing radical groups is monitored, and education - conducting various seminars and trainings for law enforcement agencies, social activists, teachers and university professors. At these trainings they explain what “hate speech”, “hate incident”, “hate crime” is, what their social danger is, how to investigate such crimes, what place it can have in preventing such crimes and in working with victims. cooperation with non-governmental organizations,” the people’s deputy added.
Let us remind you that the Anti-Defamation League is a non-governmental Jewish organization founded in 1913 in the USA. The main declared goal of the ADL is to support educational and educational programs aimed at combating racial intolerance, combating anti-Semitism as a political phenomenon, and monitoring cases of anti-Semitism around the world. The organization's annual budget is $50 million.
Let us recall, as PolitNavigator reported, recently in Ukraine there has been an increase in cases of attacks on Jewish institutions, acts of vandalism against synagogues and Jewish graves,
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