Posts Tagged: Poland
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...
Polish Far-Right Supporters Protest Against Restitution of Jewish Property
Hundreds of far-right supporters marched in Warsaw on Saturday to protest against a US law on the restitution of Jewish property seized during or after...
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...
Polish Police Release Video of Man Hurling Rock into Gdansk Synagogue on Yom Kippur
Police in the Polish port city of Gdansk are seeking the arrest of a man who was caught on video on Wednesday hurling a rock...
Poland’s History Hangs Heavy; So Does Its Present
“The past is never dead. It isn’t even past,” William Faulkner famously wrote. While Faulkner was writing of his native Mississippi, he could have been...
Poles Carry Their Own Hatred for Jews
JNS.org – I know there is a dialogue taking place between the Israeli and Polish governments over Poland’s recently enacted Holocaust law, but a few historical...
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....
Analyst: Changes Make Polish Holocaust Law ‘Less of a Defeat’; Jewish Groups Hail Move
An Israeli commentator said on Wednesday the changes to the Polish “Holocaust Law” criminalizing discussion of Poland’s complicity in the murder of Jews during World...
Leading Jewish Group Criticizes Papal Honors to Antisemitic Polish Cardinal
A major Jewish group expressed its objections on Wednesday to the Vatican’s decision to honor an antisemitic World War II-era cardinal. Cardinal August Hlond was Polish...
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...
