This is not the first anti-Semitic killing in Uzbekistan this year. Yet a Google News search for the story reveals only this account from the vile Arutz Sheva [2] (June 9), voice of the Israeli settler movement. Why is that?
Jewish leaders in the former Soviet Union suspect that anti-Semitism was behind the murder of the secretary of a rabbi and her mother in Tashkent, the major city in Uzbekistan.
The two were found dead in their apartment. The 20-year-old woman, Karina Rivka Loiper, was active in the Tashkent Jewish community and was secretary to regional chief Rabbi Avraham Gurevich.
A community Jewish spokesman said police have revealed no details on the murder. Earlier this year, a leader of the Jewish community was murdered in a Tashkent market, and the Islamic Jihad two years ago attacked Jewish sites, including the Israeli embassy, in Tashkent, killing two workers and a policeman.
See our last posts on Uzbekistan [3], Central Asia [4] and the global resurgence of anti-Semitism [5].
