(JTA) — The leader of Ukraine’s pro-Russian rebels used an anti-Semitic insult to describe the country’s political leaders.
Alexander Zakharchenko, leader of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, during a news conference on Monday called the country’s leaders “miserable representatives of the great Jewish people.”
“I can’t remember a time when Cossacks were led by people who have never held a sword in their hands,” Zakharchenko added during the meeting with reporters in the eastern rebel stronghold of Donetsk.
Zakharchenko also said that the Cossacks, the country’s historic nationalists, “would turn in their graves if they could see who is running Ukraine.”
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Source: JTA
