Since the fighting between the Ukrainian military and pro-Russian separatists began in April, hundreds of Jews from Donetsk and Luhansk have left their lives and belongings and fled to a makeshift refugee camp run by Chabad. They are not alone. In the first five months of 2014 alone, more than 1,550 Jews have immigrated from Ukraine to Israel (more than double the 693 who arrived in the corresponding period last year), according to the Jewish Agency for Israel. What is the role of anti-Semitism in this max exodus? We asked Mark Levin, who has followed anti-Semitic trends for more than 20 years as executive director of the National Coalition Supporting Eurasian Jewry (formerly the National Conference on Soviet Jewry) since 1992. Levin explains why the anti-Jewish sentiment in Ukraine isn’t state-sponsored, but in other parts of Europe, it has entered civil...

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