Interregional Academy of Personnel Management ( uk, Міжрегіональна Академія управління персоналом (МАУП), translit.: ''Mizhrehional'na Akademiya upravlinnya personalom'',
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: MAUP) is a private
higher education
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institution in
Ukraine
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. Founded in 1989 as a non-state establishment, the MAUP consists of a preparatory department, a
lyceum
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, college, institutes and postgraduate school and has over 50,000 students in many branches throughout the country. Since 1991, MAUP has been publishing the ''Personnel'' magazine and the ''Personnel Plus'' newspaper. In 2008, the U.S. State Department published its "Contemporary Global Anti-Semitism: A Report Provided to the United States Congress" and singled out MAUP when it stated the organization "is one of the most persistent anti-Semitic institutions in
Eastern Europe
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Publications
The MAUP has published more than 300 study plans and manuals and 200 books for educational programs. The ''Personnel'' magazine is registered by The Presidium of the State Accreditation Committee as a supplement on economics, law, psychology, pedagogy, philosophy, social and political sciences. MAUP's editions have been recommended for use by The Ministry of Education of Ukraine. It is an affiliate member of the International Personnel Academy and European University Continuing Education Network ( EUCEN).
The MAUP asserts that "Pursuant to the results of Sophiya Kyivska, the Rating of Higher Education Establishments in Ukraine (2000), and International Open Popularity and Quality Rating (1998–2000) IRAPM was recognized as the best non-state higher education establishment in Ukraine."
Controversies
Allegations of antisemitism
In early and mid-2000s, the MAUP became embroiled in controversies because of evident
antisemitism
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Antis ...
Zionism
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October Revolution
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United States Congress
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, the MAUP was called " e most troubling development" in Ukraine and it was asserted that it receives "significant funding from Arab and Muslim states".
On April 14–19, 2005 the MAUP weekly newspaper ''Personnel Plus'' published an open letter to President Yushchenko, Ukrainian
Verkhovna Rada
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Speaker
Volodymyr Lytvyn
Volodymyr Mykhailovych Lytvyn ( uk, Володи́мир Миха́йлович Литви́н, ; born April 28, 1956) is a Ukrainian politician best known for being Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament. Having previously se ...
and
Supreme Court of Ukraine
The Supreme Court of Ukraine ( uk, Верховний Суд України, ) is the highest judicial body in the system of courts of general jurisdiction in Ukraine.Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko Condemns Anti-Semitic Academy "MAUP" (NCSJ) December 06, 2005
On June 3, the MAUP sponsored a one-day conference entitled "Zionism As the Biggest Threat to Modern Civilization" attended by the former
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
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Grand Wizard
David Duke
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of the
United States
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. The ''
Kyiv Post
The ''Kyiv Post'' is the oldest English-language newspaper in Ukraine, founded in October 1995 by Jed Sunden.
History
American Jed Sunden founded the ''Kyiv Post'' weekly newspaper on Oct. 18, 1995 and later created KP Media for his holdings. ...
'' newspaper called the gathering "a disgusting orgy of
racism
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and hatred". In August 2005, the MAUP awarded Duke with a
Kandidat Nauk
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degree in History.
After the
Iran
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Israel
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off the map" (when his real quote was "Israel is an unnatural creature, it will not survive") had evoked international condemnations, on November 4, 2005 the MAUP issued "a decisive protest against large-scale campaign, organized by Zionists, against the Islamic Republic of Iran and its President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad where he quoted the words of the Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomeini about future death of Israel and the USA".
In his November 22 statement, Georgy Shchokin, the MAUP's President who also heads the "International Personnel Academy" (IPA) and the Ukrainian Conservative Party (UCP), combined traditional
Christian antisemitism
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with what has been defined as "
new antisemitism
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Jesus Christ
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said to Jews two thousand years ago: 'Your father is a devil!' … Zionism in 1975 was acknowledged by General Assembly of UN as the form of racism and race discrimination, that, in the opinion of the absolute majority of modern Europeans, makes the most threat to modern civilization. Israel is the artificially created state (classic totalitarian type). ... Their end is known, and only the God's true will rescue all of us. We are not afraid, as God always together with his children!"
On December 1, 2005, the MAUP held a conference "The Jewish-Bolshevik
Revolution of 1917
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– the Source of the Red Terrorism and the Starvation of Ukraine".
In the March 2006 issue of the ''Personnel Plus'', an article revived false
blood libel
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accusations from the infamous 1911 Beilis Trial by mischaracterizing the verdict as the jury recognizing the case as
ritual murder
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by persons unknown even though it found Beilis himself not guilty, when in fact the defense had entirely rested on demolishing the concept of Jewish ritual murder.''Blood Accusation: The Strange History of the Beiliss Case'', Samuel, Maurice, Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. ''Царская Россия и дело Бейлиса'', Tager, A., Moscow, 1934 /ref>''Scapegoat on Trial: The Story of Mendel Beilis – The Autobiography of Mendel Beilis the Defendant in the Notorious 1912 Blood Libel in Kiev'', Beilis, Mendel, Introd. & Ed. By Shari Schwartz, CIS, New York, 1992, A week earlier, MAUP leaders had visited the grave of Andrei Yuschinsky, the Christian boy who had been the victim in the case.
At a conference held at the MAUP Academy in Kyiv, the heads of the MAUP accused "
Rothschild
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's Soldiers" of the genocide of the Ukrainian people.
On August 15, 2006, an article on the MAUP's website denounced the Bnai Brith as "the Jewish Gestapo".
Reactions
On November 21, 2005, the
Simon Wiesenthal Center
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issued a public statement to Ukraine's government, requesting they denounce and revoke MAUP's accreditation.
On December 5, the President of the
Ukrainian American Coordinating Council
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(UACC) Ihor Gawdiak issued a statement "to convey our profound shock and distress concerning the horrific statement made on 4 November by the heads of the International Academy of Manpower Management (MAUP) in support of the Iranian President's statement that Israel should be wiped off the map."
On the same day, the office of the
President of Ukraine
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Viktor Yushchenko
Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko ( uk, Віктор Андрійович Ющенко, ; born 23 February 1954) is a Ukrainian politician who was the third president of Ukraine from 23 January 2005 to 25 February 2010.
As an informal leader of th ...
issued a statement which said in part:
"The Head of State is worried that anti-Semitism spreads throughout Ukraine. He condemned the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management (IAPM) as an institution that systematically publishes anti-Semitic articles in its publication ''Personnel''. Yushchenko said he had left the supervisory council of the journal to protest against this inhumane policy. He called on professors of the IAPM to respect citizens of all nationalities and confessions and to "stop rousing national hatred."
Yushchenko once sat on MAUP's board, and Foreign Minister of Ukraine Borys Tarasyuk was honorary director of one of MAUP's subdivisions until 2005. Yushchenko resigned from MAUP several years ago, following its criticism by Jewish organizations.
On December 6, the ADL urged the
US House of Representatives
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to delay approval of Ukraine's graduation from the Jackson-Vanik amendment. The ADL National Director
Abraham Foxman
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wrote: "We expect more from democratic states than we do from totalitarian ones. This year alone has seen a steep increase in acts of violence and vandalism against Jews across Ukraine. There have been attempts to ban everything from Jewish organizations to Jewish holy texts. The university MAUP ..actively promotes anti-Semitism of the most vicious kind."Press Release: ADL Welcomes Ukraine's Strong Condemnation of University Fomenting Anti-Semitism (ADL) January 25, 2006
On December 7, the US-Ukraine Foundation (USUF) condemned " ..the November 4, 2005 statements by the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management (MAUP) as hateful, virulent and having no place in the public discourse in Ukraine or anywhere else. MAUP's anti-Semitic statements supporting the Iranian President's recent call for Israel to be 'wiped off the map' was an affront to decency that provoked the unequivocal international condemnation it deserved."
Speaking on national television on January 23, 2006, Foreign Minister of Ukraine Borys Tarasyuk "strongly condemned the anti-Semitic actions of MAUP University" and confirmed that "having exhausted all efforts to convince MAUP leaders to drop their unlawful and wrongful actions" he broke off contacts with University a year ago. In its press release, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine accused MAUP of breaking Ukrainian law, noting "persistent incompliance with requirements of state licensing rules for universities, failure to abide with legally binding decisions of the State Accreditation Commission", qualifying it as "a general negligence of law and a desire to pursue activities inconsistent with the status of Higher Education Institute in Ukraine".
This move was welcomed by the UACC,
National Coalition Supporting Soviet Jewry
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, the ADL, and other human rights advocates.
The leader of
Vaad
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in Ukraine Joseph Zissels called MAUP "the most influential center of anti-Semitism in the country."
The latest rebuke came from Ukraine's High Court which ruled against MAUP as it sought to sue the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine for publishing articles "about MAUP activities directed against the Jewish community and Zionism".
Notable alumni
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David Duke
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, American politician,
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* ...
, former Grand Wizard of the
Louisiana
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based
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
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Volodymyr Groysman
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, former
Prime Minister of Ukraine
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Antisemitism in Ukraine
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History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union
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Zionology
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NGO
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