By Chris Jeżewski, Polish Media Issues Yesterday saw a debate in the UK Houses of Commons about the “Polish Anti-defamation law”. It was not clear why legislation in another country would have been of such interest to British MPs but the issue was compounded when the initiator of the debate, Alex Sobel, linked the law…
California’s State Assembly calls on the US Congress to push Poland to abandon the amendment of Act on the Institute of National Remembrance As the Jewish online newspaper San Diego Jewish World reported, the State Assembly of California called on the US Congress to urge Poland to “abandon a gag rule that seems to encourage revisionist…
PMI regards the idea of the British MP Alex Sobel to discuss anti-Semitism in Poland as totally misplaced. The proposed debate is out of order, as it conflates two independent issues, anti-Semitism and Polish legislation (which is in no way anti-Semitic). It must be stressed that the level of anti-Semitic incidents in the UK is…
Two US congressmen sent an open letter to the US Deputy Secretary of State John J. Sullivan, The letter was full of historical inaccuracies and inconsistencies. For instance, it attacked (rightly) the glorification of the Ukrainian mass murder Stepan Bandera. But at the same time, it attacked also a Polish bill which penalizes the glorification…
The media war against Poland goes on: Israeli president Rivlin spreads historically inaccurate, offensive and anti-Polish news during the March of the Living The war against Poland in the Israeli media got a new momentum last Thursday when the Israeli president Reuven Rivlin had attacked Poland during the 30th March of the Living in Auschwitz. Rivlin…