(JTA) — A Jewish physician from Ukraine was severely beaten in what he said was an assault with anti-Semitic overtones.
Oleksanr Dukhovskoi, a chief pediatric neurosurgeon in the east Ukrainian city of Kahrkiv, told the television station 9 TV that he believed the assault Sunday was ordered by competitors. He did not name a suspect.
“I was beaten up by three men on the street who shouted at me: ‘Jew face, get out of town and out of the country’,” Dukhovskoi said. “This is blatant anti-Semitism. I told this to local journalists but nobody wanted mention this aspect of the attack.”
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Source: JTA
