SICKENING FOOTAGE: Polish Anti-Semites Beat & Burn Effigy of Hasidic Jew in ‘Religious Ritual April 22, 2019
Residents of a small town in southeastern Poland marked a Christian holiday on Friday by making a large doll resembling a Hasidic Jew, hanging it, beating it up and then burning it.
At the event in the town of Pruchnik, the effigy was dressed in a brimmed hat and Peyos, along with a long nose — a trope used by Nazi Germany and by anti-Semites worldwide to demonize and dehumanize Jews.
After being sentenced to “death” at a “trial”, the crowd cut the effigy down from the tall tree, dragged it on a rope through the town, with the public — including many children — beating it up with sticks. After reaching the local river, the head of the effigy was cut off and the effigy was burned.
The public spectacle was a re-enactment of a Christian tale used to incite violence against Jews for hundreds of years.
Following the sickening event, senior Israeli politician Yair Lapid condemned “hatred of Jews in Poland”.
“Poles should fight antisemitism, not pass laws that deny their role in the Holocaust”, he wrote, adding that the “Netanyahu government should stop stuttering and unequivocally condemn [it].”
Lapid is referring to recent laws passed in Poland which penalizes those who link the Polish nation to the mass murder of Jews during the Holocaust. Poland claims that since it’s government never directly collaborated with the Nazis Y”MS, it is misleading to use phrases like “Polish holocaust”.
Poland was home to Europe’s largest Jewish community before the Holocaust, and many of it’s citizens participated in the murders. Poland has seen a rise in anti-Semitic incidents in recent years.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ignited controversy during a February visit to the country, when he said “Poles cooperated with the Nazis”. His comment, which was misrepresented in some media to include all Poles, triggered a diplomatic spat. It escalated when Israel’s acting foreign minister, Israel Katz, later said that Poles take in “anti-Semitism with their mothers’ milk.”
In other news, the U.S. ambassador to Poland wished Jews a happy Passover in Polish, and the reaction was a wave of angry comments on Twitter.
Ambassador Georgette Mosbacher also wished Poles a happy Easter on Sunday. By then, Mosbacher had been accused of offending Poland with her Passover tweet and reminded she is serving in a predominantly Roman Catholic country.
Krystyna Pawlowicz, a lawmaker with Poland’s right-wing ruling party, called the ambassador’s tweet, which was posted Friday along with a colorful illustration of items for a Passover Seder, a “provocation.”
Some came to Mosbacher’s defense, recalling that Poland also has a small Jewish population.
Michal Szczerba, an opposition lawmaker, put some blame on the ruling Law and Justice party, accusing it of encouraging Polish nationalists by failing to react to past cases of racism and anti-Semitism.
(Nat Golden – YWN / AP)

Residents of a small town in southeastern Poland marked a Christian holiday on Friday by making a large doll resembling a Hasidic Jew, hanging it, beating it up and then burning it.
At the event in the town of Pruchnik, the effigy was dressed in a brimmed hat and Peyos, along with a long nose — a trope used by Nazi Germany and by anti-Semites worldwide to demonize and dehumanize Jews.
After being sentenced to “death” at a “trial”, the crowd cut the effigy down from the tall tree, dragged it on a rope through the town, with the public — including many children — beating it up with sticks. After reaching the local river, the head of the effigy was cut off and the effigy was burned.
The public spectacle was a re-enactment of a Christian tale used to incite violence against Jews for hundreds of years.
Following the sickening event, senior Israeli politician Yair Lapid condemned “hatred of Jews in Poland”.
“Poles should fight antisemitism, not pass laws that deny their role in the Holocaust”, he wrote, adding that the “Netanyahu government should stop stuttering and unequivocally condemn [it].”
Lapid is referring to recent laws passed in Poland which penalizes those who link the Polish nation to the mass murder of Jews during the Holocaust. Poland claims that since it’s government never directly collaborated with the Nazis Y”MS, it is misleading to use phrases like “Polish holocaust”.
Poland was home to Europe’s largest Jewish community before the Holocaust, and many of it’s citizens participated in the murders. Poland has seen a rise in anti-Semitic incidents in recent years.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ignited controversy during a February visit to the country, when he said “Poles cooperated with the Nazis”. His comment, which was misrepresented in some media to include all Poles, triggered a diplomatic spat. It escalated when Israel’s acting foreign minister, Israel Katz, later said that Poles take in “anti-Semitism with their mothers’ milk.”
In other news, the U.S. ambassador to Poland wished Jews a happy Passover in Polish, and the reaction was a wave of angry comments on Twitter.
Ambassador Georgette Mosbacher also wished Poles a happy Easter on Sunday. By then, Mosbacher had been accused of offending Poland with her Passover tweet and reminded she is serving in a predominantly Roman Catholic country.
Krystyna Pawlowicz, a lawmaker with Poland’s right-wing ruling party, called the ambassador’s tweet, which was posted Friday along with a colorful illustration of items for a Passover Seder, a “provocation.”
Some came to Mosbacher’s defense, recalling that Poland also has a small Jewish population.
Michal Szczerba, an opposition lawmaker, put some blame on the ruling Law and Justice party, accusing it of encouraging Polish nationalists by failing to react to past cases of racism and anti-Semitism.
(Nat Golden – YWN / AP)
1 comment:
WE FUCKING STUPID JEWS OF LONDON GIVE THEM WORK AND TRUST IN OUR HOMES
I DO NOT KNOW IF THE JEWS BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST WERE JUST AS STUPID
DO YOU HOW MANY HOME HELPS, AND BUILDERS THERE ARE IN LONDON OF THIS CROWD, I HAVE NEVER SEEN SUCH STUPID PEOPLE AS THE JEWS ! !
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