Dear Editor, This article has nothing to support the headline and the writer was being mischievous with the facts.https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/views/analysis/revised-law-still-alters-history-of-jews-in-poland-862210.html The Polish law does not (and did not) in any way try to revise the history of the Holocaust. On the contrary it was a slightly impolitic attempt to ensure that the history was not distorted…
The leading US magazine Bloomberg Businessweek is trafficking in an anti-Polish, Orwellian narrative. Poland will celebrate 74th anniversary of the tragic Warsaw Uprising tomorrow. Instead to pause for a moment and show some respect for the victims of Nazi Germany, the US weekly business magazine Businessweek demonizes Poland as a hotspot of “anti-Semitism”, and a…
Jan Grabowski’s myth about 200,000 fugitive WWII Jews apparently killed by Poles has been repeated on so many occasions by mainstream media and politicians that people who are not familiar with Poland’s history take it at face value. It was the case with Yair Lapid, the Israeli leader of opposition party Yesh Atid and with the ‘Times…
In the libelous article “The unsettling denialism in Poland’s ‘National Remembrance’ Law” its author, Dan Davison, an activist of the Labour Party and PhD student (Sociology) claims that the Polish government and Polish people want to “reinforce the notion that no sections of either the Polish state or nation collaborated with the Nazis, or that if any…
On July 5, 2018, Yad Vashem issued a slanderous statement which twisted German WWII perpetrators with Polish victims. The statement attempted to undermine the position of the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and to discredit the efforts made by Polish and Israeli leaders to implement a policy of reconciliation and respect between Poland and Israel. The statement…
Between 1942 and 1945, the New York Times (NYT) did not care about the industrial extermination of European Jews by Nazi Germany. The US daily was, however, not an exception. Many of the US corporations like IBM, Associated Press (AP) or Ford closely co-operated with Nazi Germany and contributed to the suffering of Polish Jews and…
Polish Media Issues, a leading international group fighting against anti-Polish bias in the media, condemns derogatory and historically false accusations made by some Israeli historians in an official statement issued by Yad Vashem on July 5, 2018. The statement reads among others: “Poles’ [sic] assistance to Jews during the Holocaust was relatively rare, and attacks against and even…
Some underinformed British and American politicians like Alex Sobel (Labor Party, UK) or Ro Khanna (Democratic Party, USA) have recently tried to undermine Poland’s very right to defend her good name and they have attacked the Polish anti-defamation law (IPN bill) by making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Poles. While confronting such individuals…