(Jewish Group) For Ukraine's Jews, Jewish president is source of pride, fear
Arkady Kesselman, a 20-year-old Jewish student, was set on leaving his native Ukraine for the West last winter.
In a war-torn nation losing about 1.2 million citizens each year, where the average salary is about $300 a month, it’s not an unusual decision.
But Kesselman has since changed his mind. The reason? Volodymyr Zelensky’s landslide victory in May’s presidential election.
Zelensky, a 41-year-old Jewish actor with no prior experience in politics — he became famous starring on a TV show as a teacher who unexpectedly becomes president — ran on a campaign based on fighting corruption and ending the territorial feud with Russia.
“I have new hope now,” Kesselman said. “I’m glad a Jewish person can get elected to [be] president here, but I believe he will be successful regardless. I’m staying.”
Kesselman’s confidence in Zelensky, Ukraine’s first Jewish president, is both widely shared — the president enjoys a record approval rating of about 70% — and unusual for this country, where none of Zelensky’s predecessors had crossed the 47-point threshold since 2008.
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All Jews should be keeping an eye on this situation with the POS in the White House and Ukraine. As it stands now, the anti-Semitism hasn't come out in full force from the right....yet.
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