entirely rested on demolishing the concept of Jewish ritual murder. 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'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 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 (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 Viktor Yushchenko 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."President condemns anti-Semitism Press office of President Victor Yushchenko of Ukraine. December 5, 2005 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 to delay approval of Ukraine's graduation from the Jackson-Vanik amendment. The ADL National Director Abraham Foxman 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." On December 7, the US-Ukraine Foundation (USUF) condemned "[...] the November 4, 2005 statements by the Interregional Academy of Personnel