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Friday November 6, 1998

`Yid' remarks go unpunished

MOSCOW (JTA) -- A deadline for taking action against the anti-Semitic comments of a Communist lawmaker has come and gone.
And when asked about the lawmaker's comments, the leader of Russia's Communist Party, Gennady Zyuganov, himself made thinly veil

In early October, Makashov had told a television interviewer that "it is time to expel all yids from Russia."

At subsequent rallies, Makashov said Jews are to blame for the current economic crisis in Russia and that if he had to die he would take a "dozen yids" with him.

But the deadline assigned by the prosecutor's office for an investigation has now passed, and the office is refusing to comment on the investigation.

In an interview with the Moscow Jewish weekly, Zyuganov said Makashov's remarks may well have been prompted by the fact that "there are quite a lot of people of Jewish nationality among the so-called democratic journalists" who "day and night are making a fool of the people."

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