There's no request to hide that this is serious. 6.34% of the parliamentary elections would guarantee that the organization of Grzegorz Braun exceeded the electoral threshold. With the vote for the Confederacy, that would be adequate for the Law and Justice to return to power. And in Braun's case, we say a program and practice of action that resembles the dark times of the first half of the last century (pure anti-Semitism, nationalism, objectification of women, force as a method of politics, rejection of democracy), although due to the monarchist and Catholic nature of his views, neither a fascist nor a Nazi can be called.
There is no and there cannot be 1 answer to the title question. We'll hear about the usage of anti-Ukrainian sentiments. possibly besides about attempts by the mainstream parties to take over the communicative of the far right, which brings authorisation of her postulates alternatively than taking over her electorate. The voices of the anti-vaccinationists. About fatigue of the PO duopoly. About antisystemic moods among young people. There is surely a part of each of these opinions. However, all these possible causes of Braun's success have 1 common feature – they besides happen in Mentzen's case. The Confederacy besides conducts an anti-Ukrainian narrative, the full right opposes the legalization of abortion and has 19th-century views on the place of women in society. The things we will not find there are monarchism and openly proclaimed anti-Semitism. So what happened that anti-Semitism not only ceased to be disqualifying in Poland, but could contribute to a ten-fold increase in the number of votes cast on Grzegorz Braun between 2015 and 2025? due to the fact that we will not fishy that Poles and Poles, after celebrating the 1000th anniversary of the coronation of Bolesław Chrobry, missed the return of the monarchy. I agree with Prof. Dudek that it was the suppression of the Khanukii in the Sejm and the break-up of Prof. Grabowski's lecture that greatly contributed to the increase of support for Braun.
Anti-Semitism in Braun's release saw all Poland in the debate of Super Express. He caused violent reactions of another candidates and candidates, outraged public opinion, the prosecution's investigation. I'll remind you what Braun said on the air:
It is good that Poland does not border with the “Jewish state located in Palestine”. Then the genocide policy advertised by ministers, rabbis and generals of the State of Israel could easy turn against us. The State of Israel is tormented as an ally, as a carrier of European civilization in the mediate East.”
I late spent respective weeks analyzing anti-Semitic hatred speech on social media, between early 2023 and late 2024. And something Braun said reminded me of. I have seen akin statements (e.g. "We again protested against the genocide committed by Israel on the civilian population of Palestine yesterday. We were told that Israel was the only democracy in the mediate East...) due to the fact that they appeared at that time tens of thousands of times, including 8,500 in the phrase "Jewish genocide". This kind of argument dominated among the 1,200 posts supporting Braun on the day of his performance with a fire extinguisher. Why am I surprised? After all, it is the Internet, the social media habitat of pure hatred speech. It's a habit of right-wing trolls and haters. Only that the message quoted just now comes from the Facebook profile .... full Silesia. It's hard to think of it as a coincidence, since on organization profiles, Together, I found 10 more specified posts, not to mention posts on private profiles of activists (this “State Located in Palestine” was a gladly utilized epithet). I would besides point out that the candidate, in the same debate, started his question to Braun with the words: "I seldom agree with your views, but a fewer months ago you said a conviction I agree with. You said Benjamin Netanyahu is simply a war criminal and has the blood of innocent civilians on his hands. And that's the truth” What became an impulse to Braun's quoted tirade. It's not that you can't accuse Netanyahu of war crimes, it's the same thing about Bush junior being accused of war crimes in Iraq. It is simply a public declaration of unanimity with a policy whose views and actions are unacceptable in public discourse.
What do I mean by genocide? Tens of thousands of civilians, mostly women and children, died in Gaza. Another tens of thousands may starve to death, and I choice on words, hear frequently erstwhile I talk about it.
First, this word is simply a lie. It is utilized contrary to the UN Convention on the Prevention of Genocide Crimes and contrary to the intention of its creator. What do you mean, a lie? I hear Amnesty International, she published a study “Why is this genoside?”
It is hard to complain that fewer people have read the Report, so I will inform you that Chapter 5.5.2 on page 98 of the authors explain that they do not mean "genocide" within the meaning of the global Criminal Court. The definition of genocide based on the UN Convention does not stand for a trial of time, AI believes it should be changed and in the study uses this concept according to its proposal. This is like Voltaire’s words, in his Philosopher’s Dictionary, in the slogan “Humans”: “Jews are human-eaters and that is simply a fact.” Let us accuse the Jews of the worst known crime by adopting a appropriate definition of the word.
Secondly, the usage of the word "genocide" in the context of the war in Gaza is considered to be an anti-Semitism expression in the Working Definition of Anti-Semitism global Holocaust Rememberance Association. Poland is simply a associate of this organization and the delegation consists of 3 Deputy Ministers of the Polish Government. Poland considers the definition "an crucial and apparent mention point in tackling this phenomenon". It is besides adopted as a benchmark in 40 countries worldwide, including 24 EU associate States. The European Commission itself besides adopted the same in the "EU strategy to combat anti-Semitism crimes".
I am besides amazed that the progressive left, so delicate to the importance of language in discrimination (feminitis, stigmatizing offensive racial terms, or to sexual minorities and fighting for neutral terms of non-heteronormatives), does not see the problem here.
Maybe we've had adequate of this split-hair thing. A much more crucial question is whether this language justifies force against Jews and Jews in Poland? I am a Polish Jew, which is so crucial that I can see and hear what happens to Polish Jews and Polish Jews in a non-virtual reality, and what is rather transparent to the public. No wonder that fewer people see the same thing, since we were 9 thousand, and adding those who wrote judaic recognition as the second about Polish – 17 thousand. I see collective responsibility, which is justified by the way the State of Israel conducts the war in Gaza.
So what happens in public space? I'm not going to start with Hanukia in the Parliament extinguished by Braun. I will start with a bottle of petrol thrown towards the Nożyków Synagogue in Warsaw, May 15, 2024 (it was missing 15 cm so that it would stand in flames). I know, the police immediately caught the unsub and announced it was a hooligan act. You don't request an investigative writer to find out that the perpetrator presently on the loose declares neo-Nazi views. So I propose that we wait until the trial begins. The prosecution's investigation is over and the case will shortly appear on the bench. However, I will share the reflection – the alleged hooligan "for heca" threw Molotov's cocktail into a synagogue, not a shop, school, residential building, church or located close the Palace of Culture.
Another example? erstwhile the Memorial at Umschlagplatz commemorating 300 1000 Jews and Jews taken to Treblinka was "depreciated" grafiti comparing Israel's behaviour in Gaza with the politics of the Nazis at the Ghetto, the police considered it a hooligan act, and the City of Warsaw took 4 days to remove the inscription. Furthermore, this component of the alignment of Gaza with the Warsaw Ghetto is besides found in Braun's statement, erstwhile he accused Rafał Trzaskowski of "flagging himself with a judaic daffodils, this sign of shame". Returning to the monument at Umschlagplatz, erstwhile a group of Jews and Poles announced that the inscription would wash off themselves, the Office of the capital city immediately removed graphiteti. A akin event took place in Biłgoraj. Here, however, the mayor of inscriptions matching the state of Israel with the Nazis could not remove for 2.5 months. He besides ordered its cleaning only after the same group announced that on the anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi Holocaust Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, the monument itself would return to its erstwhile state, inviting abroad journalists to the event. I could mention any more examples of the desecrated ruins of synagogues and cemeteries. besides remind about the barrier of the Faculty of doctrine of the Jagiellonian University, where young people leave the sign “Jews to Gas”.
Okay, but these are attacks on spiritual and historical symbols, places of remembrance and worship. The gallows with David's Star have always adorned the Polish walls, and the judaic cemeteries have been desecrated, nothing “extraordinary” is happening. Then I will callback the events that happen to people, not things.
In May of that year, a group of people entered the judaic community in Bielsko-Biała and disrupted the concert, protesting against the State of Israel. The Holocaust survivors besides sat in the audience. This is not the first akin situation in the last 2 years. The judaic artist is denied the right to be published in a cultural quarterly due to the fact that she affirms the militants from the Ghetto Uprising, who are heroes of the IDF soldiers. The website, which published the text "Anti-Semitic organization Problem Together" was filled with gay pornography entries and containing threats to authors and authors. It is hard to wonder in specified a situation that the doctorate-Jewka is afraid to admit her origin, due to the fact that she thinks she may have problem defending her doctorate.
This is all in a reasonably passive environment, which is symbolized by the first manifestation of solidarity with Gaza in Warsaw. Her contestant was carrying a banner depicting Star David in a garbage can. no of the thousands of marchers noticed it, and they surely did not announcement it. I will add that there were besides people who successfully blocked the march of the All-Polish Youth through Warsaw 7 years ago, due to the fact that its participants carried a phalange, a symbol of pre-war fascists.
Of course, you can say, "We don't know and we don't respond due to the fact that we don't see it." “Perhaps Jews and Jews do not ask for aid due to the fact that they accept the situation, or possibly even think that they are “right”?” As with a female in a tram attacked by a kibol: she does not ask for help, means she does not request it.
The phenomenon he writes is besides transparent to the media. erstwhile the petrol bottle crashed on the wall of the synagogue, I tried to get mainstream media to take on the subject “Are Jews afraid present in Poland?” at best I learned that they were not interested, the silence was falling in worse. We have fought for independent media and they must be respected in the selection of subjects. However, I was amazed that 80 years after the Holocaust, 50 years after March 68 quality media in Poland is not even curious in uncovering out what is going on.
The media is not only not interested, but they can besides censor the debate on this subject. erstwhile a comment-pole by prof. Alina Molisak of the University of Warsaw appeared under 1 of the texts in Oko Press about the war in Gaza, the editorial board removed the entry within an hr and restored only the day after the intervention of prof. Grabowski mentioned earlier. I know cases erstwhile scientists and experts dealing with the mediate East or terrorism were refused to print in the media, which systematically and richly study the situation in Gaza on the basis of ... information taken from Instagram. I will spare the shame and will not write, which is simply a nationwide average editor said that desecrating the monument at Umschlagplatz is simply a ‘local theme’ and so they will not take care of it.
What has happened to the fact that openly declared anti-Semitism has ceased to be a disqualifying policy in the eyes of voters? That the public declaration ‘I am an anti-Semitic/anti-Semitic’ is not a origin for shame? That anti-Semitism becomes even a virtue, not a sin? Braun is outraged, but precisely the same words in the mouth of representatives of the progressive organization of the left stay unnoticed, and the actions caused by them stay outside the radar of the institutions of the state and civilian society?
This caused not only Braun's election success in Poland, but besides the largest anti-Semitic run since 1968. No, it's not a repeat of the year 68. The state is not a motorist and contractor of this campaign, Jews and Jews are not presented with “travel documents” for 1 way from Poland (which happened to the parents of 1 of the candidates in the presidential election). However, a investigator at the University of Warsaw, who complains about the persecution of a judaic student, says "let her be glad to survey for free" reminds of that soulful atmosphere. There are publications on the web, how vividly resembling these editors Kura and Walichnowski. There are instances of politicians and politicians talking about Zionism as an ideology hostile to Gomulka in 1969.
The supposedly progressive left behaves according to the Global Intifada slogan "By any means necessary". The translation into Polish “the goal justifies the means” does not reflect the meaning of this Mot Sartre. This call means you can do anything, anywhere and to any Jew. It's the slogan of the Black Panthers and the liberation guerrillas in the French colonies. Shooting a hebrew in 9 months? Children are dying in Gaza! Threatening old people who miraculously survived Nazi hell? But tomorrow, 14,000 children will starve! 364 boys and girls brutally murdered at the Nova Festival? Nakba! Collective work is clearly justified.
Will this situation escalate in Poland towards physical violence? most likely not, due to the fact that the Polish state takes the threat of terrorism very seriously as part of the hybrid conflict. I say we'd alternatively stay in the fire extinguisher and knife phase in Braun's release and Cancel Culture and intimidate the Survivors in the release of progressive environments. In Poland, 80 years after the Holocaust, 50 years after March 68, 90 years after the bench ghetto. In the country of the Kielce Pogrom and the crime in Jedwabne.
Am I accusing the RAZEM organization of anti-Semitism? Rather, erstwhile members of this organization (https://tiny.pl/xtkf-nprI truly admire the courage to behave decently.
Accusing of crimes prosecuted by the public is the prosecution's job, not mine. All I'm saying is that erstwhile they let anti-Semitic language into anti-Semitism salons, they made an acceptable component of public debate and opened the way for Braun to electoral success. Not only in the 1st circular of presidential elections, but besides in all subsequent elections. That they have helped many citizens and anti-Semitism citizens to be considered legitimate in public debate. possibly even something to be arrogant of.
At the end of the disco. Since I am speaking not for the first time in this case and I meet with the charge that I am the State of Israel's defender (lastly, I am a “geneous Zionist”), I will make a declaration. Although I do not think that it is essential to make a message about my view of the war in Israel with Hamas to talk on the issue of anti-Semitism in Poland. However, for the polemics to mention to what I said and not to what I did not say: I do not believe that Israel is conducting this war in a manner justified by Hamas' attack on October 7, 2023. I only believe that all acts which bear the mark of crimes of global (and national) law should be the subject of prosecution proceedings and then be settled by an independent court. In Israel. Israel is simply a democratic state with an independent judiciary. In fresh years, the independency of the ultimate Court has been defended by citizens in a way that should be respectful in Poland. The procedures should be precisely the same as in the case of American torture in Abu-Graib and the shooting of Nangar-Khel by Polish soldiers (six civilians died and 3 people were badly injured, including women and children). If this does not happen, the institutions of global law should deal with matters.
Recently, I heard a wise hebrew who said "you should be very naive to think that even specified a traumatic event as the Holocaust will bring the resilience of European civilization to anti-Semitism for more than 3 generations." It is simply a pity that this shows the example of a progressive left, in which anti-Semitism tradition occurs much little frequently than in the right-wing tradition. In Poland, where the Holocaust was accomplished.
