Human Rights Activists In Moscow Wear Yellow Stars To Protest Kremlin Crackdown On Georgians

Kol Hakavod to these courageous human rights activists , including many Jews, who were right on target to put on yellow stars and carry signs saying "I'm A Georgian" to protest the Kremlin's thuggish explusion campaign of Georgians from Moscow.

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As a community that experienced the Holocaust, it is forbidden for Jews to turn away and remain silent when another ethnic group is chosen for discrimination and ethnic cleansing. It is sad that official Russian Jewish organizations, like the Russian Jewish Congress, have not shown similar courage to speak out. It is all well and good to sponsor multi-million dollar remembrance ceremonies like the just completed event at Babi Yar. But what about present day violations of human rights by one's own government like the anti-Georgian crackdown and the murder of Anna Poitkovskaya?

However, good for Baruch Gorin, spokesman for FEOR, for having the guts to say on the record that what the Putin government is doing to the Georgians is "very dangerous."