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…
Sad News. One of our members, Dr. Thaddeus C. Radzilowski, passed away yesterday. Our condolences to his family, friends and colleagues. This is the transcript of the Press Release from the Piast Institute. “PIAST INSTITUTE MOURNS THE PASSING OF DR. THADDEUS RADZILOWSKI Today, Piast Institute, our Polish-American family, and our Hamtramck community lost a…
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…
At the start of 2015 PMI commissioned a survey from Populus. This was done to coincide with the 70th Anniversary of the “liberation” of the German Nazi camp Auschwitz by the Soviets. Time and resources were short so only 2 questions were asked in the survey of nearly 2100 adults in the UK. It was…
PMI pursued a complaint with the Belgian Press Ombudsman RVDJ for an article that we flagged on 3rd August LAST YEAR. https://www.facebook.com/groups/polishmediaissues/permalink/1506196876108968/ https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20170803_03000631 10 months and 19 days later, RVDJ managed to make their belated decision and stated the complaint was “unfounded”. http://www.rvdj.be/node/510 Originally, Nieuwsblad wrote: “Gröning gaf tijdens zijn proces toe dat hij een…