In a frightening move reminiscent of 1930’s Germany, Jews in eastern Ukraine were greeted with pamphlets today telling them they had to register “or else have their citizenship revoked, face deportation and see their assets confiscated.”  Denis Pushilin, the head of “Donetsk’s temporary government,” said that even though his name was on the pamphlet, he was not responsible…but does it matter?  Visions of those black and white movie reels, the books we’ve read,  the first hand accounts we’ve heard about the holocaust  sent untold chills up our spines yesterday. Tears were shed remembering the star— the yellow star.

In November 1939, one year after Kristallnacht, the Nazi government followed the recommendation of leader Reinhard Heydrich and first introduced mandatory ID badges for Jews in Poland. It was announced that “severe punishment is in store for Jews who do not wear the yellow badge on back and front.”

This Nazi policy was one of the tactics used to isolate Jews from the rest of the population and it enabled the Nazi government to identify, concentrate and ultimately murder the Jews of Europe. Helmut Knochen, chief of Security Service & the Security Police in France and Belgium, stated that the yellow badge was “another step on the road to the Final Solution.”

The distribution of Anti-Semitic leaflets to Ukrainian Jews in the city of Donetsk is yet another fearful giant step forward for Russian President  Putin. A tried and true Russian KGB tactic: ruling with fear. Our own Liberals do it here—does the “War on Women” ring a bell?

The truth is that it doesn’t matter who did it…it’s been done. The intent is to foster ripples of fear amongst the Jewish communities, not just in Donetsk but throughout the region.

“This is a frightening new development in the anti-Jewish movement that is gaining traction around the world,” [President of the Zionist Organization of America, Morton] Klein said.

Putin is an  anti-Semitic Communist tyrant and his message is clear. He is moving in and moving the Jews out.

In regards to John Kerry and Sergey Lavrov in Geneva, Putin doesn’t play by anybody’s rules, he makes his own.
Not to fear though, our ever-loving Wimp-in-Chief has already sent ahead helmets and blankets.

God help us all.