A few days ago, unidentified persons were distributing anti-Polish flyers under the people’s doorsteps in New York’s Greenpoint. The authors of the flyer placed the famous “Kotwica” (in English: “anchor”), an emblem of the Polish Underground State and the Polish Home Army, among Nazi symbols. The Polish Radio Rampa from New York reported about the…
Roman Abramovich, owner of the Chelsea football club, and Bruce Buck, club’s chairman, said they want to offer fans a learning opportunity instead of simply banning supporters who commit anti-Semitic or racist acts. The educational programme should include visits to the former Nazi German Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945) Auschwitz-Birkenau. Chelsea’s initiative drew attention of numerous…
This invitation to a debate on Polish history has been written by Stefan Komar, son of a Warsaw Uprising insurgent (Batalion Zośka) and member of Polish Media Issues from New York Dear Mr. Haltiwanger, Business Insider recently published an opinion piece that was met with disapproval by members of the Polish community. In a tweet, you…
Anti-Semitism is a difficult subject especially for some politicians and journalists. But, firstly, let’s state explicitly that anti-Semitism is abhorrent. We condemn it unequivocally. We are also against all other forms of Hate Crime and discrimination. Especially when the victims are Poles. Just over a week ago there was yet another Polish victim of Hate…
Business Insider, August 21, 2018: ‘Please DO NOT mislead your viewers by rewriting history’: Polish embassy slams Fox News over coverage of deported Nazi guard Dear Mr. Haltiwanger: I refer to your article linked above. The point of Poland’s anti-defamation law (which created unwarranted worldwide hysteria) is that Poland, as a nation, did not collaborate with Nazi…
Henry Blodget is an American businessman, investor, and editor-in-chief of Business Insider, a financial and business news website. In 2003, Blodget was charged with civil securities fraud by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and got a lifetime ban from the securities industry. A press release of SEC, dated April 28, 2003, stated: The Securities and Exchange Commission, NASD and…
According to the Jewish scholar Szymon Datner, out of 200,000 Jews who managed to escape Jewish ghettos in occupied Poland, approximately 100,000 survived thanks to assistance provided by Polish residents, another 100,000 people were seized by Nazi authorities and murdered (Sz. Datner, Las sprawiedliwych (Forest of the Righteous), Warsaw 1968). But Sławomir Sierakowski, a left-wing research fellow…
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…