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…
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…
By Marek Błażejak, Polish Media Issues “The shocking killing of dozens and injury of hundreds by Israeli live fire in Gaza must stop now,” wrote Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, after Israeli forces killed more than 60 Palestinian demonstrators and injured over 2,000 on May 14, 2018. “The right…
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…
This video from ATTN: is full of inaccuracies and unjustifiable extrapolations which is very misleading. “Poland could use a history lesson from Nelson Mandela.” Why? Was he an undeclared expert on the Holocaust? https://www.facebook.com/attn/videos/1703940066308112/ Poland was invaded and brutally occupied by the two most murderous totalitarian regimes in human history. Nazi Germany and the Soviet…
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…