Information Agency | Thomas Rose – Ambassador to Poland: Hanukkah is the first always documented conflict for spiritual and political freedom — a conflict of a tiny nation that refused to abandon its faith, identity and future under force from more powerful forces. This is the communicative of a war against Hellenistic paganism, which sought to erase the Bible and remove God from human memory, by a people who understood that endurance without dignity is no survival.
Thomas Rose: Maccabee instinct powerfully resonates here in Poland
The past of Hanukkah is not simply judaic history; it speaks to all nation forced to defend its religion and character; it reminds us that freedom requires constant vigilance; and that identity, erstwhile devoted, is seldom recovered.
This machabeic instinct powerfully resonates here in Poland. For centuries, Poland has repeatedly chosen opposition alternatively of erasure, identity alternatively of submission, persistence alternatively of disappearance.
These lessons are peculiarly crucial today, especially since the most violent manifestations of anti-Semitism outside the mediate East do not take place in Central Europe — and surely not in Poland — but in countries considered the most liberal democracies of the West.
Thomas Rose: Civilization only survives erstwhile evil is fought absolutely, a culture defended without apology
Yesterday's Khanuk massacre in Sydney showed how rapidly civilization can yield to barbarism erstwhile societies lose religion in their own values. Anti-Semitism is spread erstwhile it is justified, silenced — or rewarded by weak leaders who effort to appease it.
Hanukkah, the past of Poland and Sydney teach the same truth: civilization will only last if evil is fought absolutely, a culture defended without apology, and free people never, always give up.
Thomas Rose – United States Ambassador to Poland
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AI Reviews / KOB / Source: X photograph Thomas Rose – US Embassy in Poland – X December 17th, 2025
