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Israeli flag burned at Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial in Kiev

(JNS.org) The mayor of Kiev, Ukraine, asked authorities to identify a group of people who were filmed burning an Israeli flag at the Babi Yar Holocaust memorial. Babi Yar is a ravine near Kiev where between 100,000 and 150,000 Jews were massacred by the Nazis throughout the Holocaust. The flag-burning incident is the latest in a series of antisemitic incidents targeting the memorial and took place last week on Israel’s national remembrance day for the Holocaust, Yom HaShoah. “It is intolerable to brutalize the memory of the victims. Especially at the place that which is globally known as one of the symbols of a terrible crime of fascism, at Babi Yar, where tens of thousands of people of different nationalities, the majority of them Jewish, were killed,” Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko said in a statement.

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