Posts Tagged: Poland Jews
Polish Antisemitism Is Serious, but Yair Lapid Is Overreaching
JNS.org - Over the last year, Yair Lapid, the co-chair of Israel’s opposition Blue and White Party, has made several outspoken statements about Poland, Polish...
In a ‘Judas’ Effigy in Poland, a Deadly Antisemitic Trope Persists
JNS.org - When I worked for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) more than a decade ago, relations between the Polish government and the Jewish community worldwide...
Leave the Graves of Jedwabne Alone
JNS.org -"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” These words, from George Orwell’s famous novel 1984 were often...
How Israel Should Handle Poland’s Holocaust Crimes and Antisemitism
“Calibration” is crucial in diplomacy. And when it comes to Israel's relations with Poland, calibration is the key condition. While both countries have an interest...
Israel Should Work With Poland Despite Holocaust Controversy
Jews with any connection to the Holocaust tend to harbor prejudice against Poles. Despite their 1,000-year sojourn in Poland, Jews were often discriminated against. In...
Polish Military Envoy to Israel Emphasizes Strong Defense Cooperation
JNS.org - Col. Adam Grzymkowski -- Poland’s Defense, Military, Naval, and Air Attaché to Israel -- told JNS in an interview that military ties between...
In 2013 Secretly Recorded Conversation, Polish Premier Says Jews are ‘Greedy’
JNS.org - In secret recordings from 2013, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki allegedly complained to friends about “greedy” and rich “Americans, Jews, Germans, Englishmen and Swiss”...
Polish-Jewish Relations Step Back From the Brink
JNS.org - Poland has taken the welcome step of removing the most objectionable part of its legislation governing the commemoration of the Nazi and Communist eras....
The Reaction to the Polish Holocaust Law Forgets the Reason Israel Exists
The intensity of the reaction in Israel to the “Polish death camps law,” which forbids accusing the Polish people of any sort of involvement in...
The World Confronts Poland’s Holocaust Revisionism
The Polish Holocaust law has elicited international reactions that -- by now -- have arguably become more interesting than the law itself. In fact, the resulting publicity...
All Antisemitism Is Dangerous — Why We Must Fight Poland’s Holocaust Law
Lately I have been seeing a lot of comments in both social media and in some publications that Jews should not be getting so upset about what...
Why Would Any Jews Spend Money in Poland?
Approximately three million Jews -- 90% of Polish Jewry -- were murdered during World War II on Polish soil. The majority of them perished in concentration and death camps, such as...
Why We Should Care About Poland’s Holocaust Law
JNS.org - Worldwide efforts are underway to transform the Holocaust into anything other than what it was: the specific targeting of the Jewish people for genocide....
Polish Minister Sees ‘Catharsis’ in New Holocaust Law
Patryk Jaki, the politician behind Poland's new Holocaust law, wants to end what he calls a misleading culture of shame surrounding his country's treatment of...
