Warsaw, Poland – The U.S. ambassador to Poland wished Jews a happy Passover in Polish, and the reaction was a wave of angry comments on Twitter.
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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. Poland was home to Europe’s largest Jewish population before the Holocaust.
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.
Mosbacher’s critics included far-right activist Robert Bakiewicz, who organizes a yearly Independence Day march that Polish government officials joined last year.
“Christ died and was resurrected also for you, pagans and traitorous Jews,” Bakiewicz said.
Also Sunday, Polish media reported that residents of a town in southeast Poland, Pruchnik, carried out a Good Friday tradition of beating and burning an effigy that was styled to look like an Orthodox Jew. The effigy represented Judas, the betraying disciple of Christ in the New Testament.
Beat the Jew.
Business as usual.
Like my father z“l used to say: Poles have only three passions: Catholicism, alcoholism, and anti-Semitism.
What can one really expect from those Pollacks? With very few exceptions, they actively assisted the Nazis in locating, and persecuting Jews, thus dooming them. Even when some Jews managed to escape to the countryside, they were pursued by local Poles. If they weren’t murdered on the spot, they were beaten and robbed, or worse. Whereas Germany has shown contrition and admitted its role in the Shoah, Poland has collective amnesia, and still portrays itself as a “victim”. I can’t understand why any Jew would want to live in Poland?
ANTI-ANTISEMITISM IS IN THE MOTHERS MILK
Its POLAND. That is all you need to know. They have hatred of Jews baked into them from way, way back. Quite frankly, Poland is a backwater country, who gives a rat’s (bottom) what Poles think about anything?
In 1919, the economist John Maynard Keynes, discussing Poland’s economy after WW1, wrote: Poland is an economic impossibility with no industry but Jew-baiting.
The Polish hatred of Jews was well known, always.