CHERKASSY, Dec. 14 - Incitement by local politicians belonging to “Orange Revolution” parties was a likely contributor to an act of anti-Semitic vandalism in Cherkassy, according to the Lviv office of the Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union (UCSJ, a watchdog group.

On the evening of Dec. 8, a Hanukkah menorah on a downtown street was vandalized, its lamps broken and a banner reading "Happy Hanukkah" torn.