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, the ADL, and other human rights advocates. The leader of Vaad 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 David Duke, American politician, Holocaust denier, former Grand Wizard of the Louisiana based Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. Volodymyr Groysman, former Prime Minister of Ukraine See also Antisemitism in Ukraine Racism and discrimination in Ukraine History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union History of anti-Semitism Zionology References External links Anti-Semitic mood heats up in Ukraine (PDF, June 2005, p.44.) Section in the "Bulletin of United Social Democratic Party of Ukraine". Ukraine University Schooling in Anti-Semitism Report of the Anti-Defamation League NGO MAUP official website Personnel MAUP publication Personnel Plus MAUP publication Critical analysis of the literature published by MAUP Zionism As the Biggest Threat to Modern Civilization MAUP conference A plot against MAUP, MAUP's open telegram in the Personnel Plus newspaper Order at MAUP: Read Racist Literature by Sergey Kovtunenko at the Stolichnye Novosti MAUP diplomas are not recognized in Poland at MigNews 1989 establishments in Ukraine Antisemitism in Ukraine