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Leader of the Congress of Russia's Jewish Religious Communities believes that authors of the Forbidden Art exhibition are provocateurs

Moscow, June 7, Interfax - The Congress of Jewish Religious organizations and associations of Russia is concerned with growing anti-Semitic feelings caused by the Forbidden Art 2006 exhibition.

"Russian Jews often have to pay for acts of "artistic self-expression" and "ideological protests" of small provocative groups," Chairman of the Congress of Russia's Jewish Religious Communities Rabbi Zinovy Kogan says in his statement conveyed to Interfax-Religion.

According to the rabbi, this exhibition was "mocking at Orthodox symbols, icon, ideals" and provokes its visitors to aggression towards the Orthodox Church and to anti-Semitic demonstrations.

Jews have "to listen to accusations of Russian citizens in crimes they neither committed nor provoked and to be subjected to physical attacks of skinheads who seek ideological justification of their activities and derive their anti-Semitic inspiration in such kind of anti-Christian and anti-Russian "performances" and exhibitions."

"Why all of us have to suffer for idiocies of the high-handed!" the rabbi exclaims.

According to him, the Forbidden Art 2006 had nothing to do "with art and human right protection," but was "only a provocation," "modern incitement of enmity initiated by new herostratoses."

"This exhibition shouldn't be considered as an act of blasphemy against God in Christian or Muslim understanding; it is rather an act of willful and targeted humiliation of human dignity of Christian and Islam believers," the rabbi said.

He urged all Christians and Muslims "not to shift responsibility for provocations initiated by Yury Samodurov and his few associates to Russian Jews as it would be wrong and unjust."

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