Poland antisemitism

‘Poland is for Poles, not Jews’: Polish MP's speech outside Auschwitz stirs outrage

Braun, the head of the Confederation of the Polish Crown party, made the comments on Saturday amid news of the Polish government’s plans to adopt a resolution combating antisemitism.

 Grzegorz Braun, member of far-right political alliance Confederation, speaks during a parliament session, after he used a fire extinguisher to put out the Hanukkah menorah candles, at the Parliament in Warsaw, Poland December 12, 2023.
LAPD surrounds students protesting in support of Palestinians at an encampment at the University of Southern California’s Alumni Park, in Los Angeles, California, US, April 24, 2024

LAPD increases patrols around synagogues starting Rosh Hashanah, during Holy Days

Rabbi Tanya Segal stands in the courtyard of 12 Jozefa Street in Krakow, Poland, as she is evicted from her apartment, July 31, 2025.

Pioneering rabbi evicted from historic Krakow building rendered ownerless by the Holocaust

A WOMAN holds an Israeli flag and another person covers her from the rain during the March of the Living at Auschwitz-Birkenau in April. Born into the post-Auschwitz covenant, we considered Jew-hatred passé, doomed, like racism; alas, today, it’s surging, the writer laments.

'Attempt to reshape historical narrative': IDF delegation at Auschwitz told to lower Israeli flags


Tombstones vandalized at 3 Jewish cemeteries in Poland

Last week, a 19th century tombstone at the Jewish cemetery in Tarnowskie Gory, near Krakow, was defaced with red spray paint.

A MAN WALKS past graves desecrated with swastikas at the Jewish cemetery in Westhoffen, near Strasbourg, France, in December 2019.

Polish TV uses Jewish property restitution issue to attack opposition

Poland was home to one of the world's biggest Jewish communities until it was almost entirely wiped out during World War Two.

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Polish leaders block bill stopping restitution of property lost in Holocaust

Poland’s ruling party took a stand on Wednesday against a far-right push to stop the restitution of property owned by Jews and others before the Holocaust.

JEWS LIVING in a shtetl in Poland

Polish president denies saying Israel is responsible for antisemitism

"President Duda never said that 'Israel is responsible for recent antisemitic attacks in Poland," his spokesperson said.

Yaakov Katz, of The Jerusalem Post, sits down to interview Polish President Andrzej Duda

Polish judge called Jews a ‘despicable, filthy nation’ in online forum

Under Polish law, a person can be jailed for up to three years for publicly insulting a group of people because of their national, ethnic, racial or religious affiliation.

Protesters hold placards and flags during a demonstration, organised by the British Board of Jewish Deputies for those who oppose antisemitism, in Parliament Square in London.

Jewish group warns: Polish debate over property claims turned antisemitic

The Association of Jewish Religious Communities has appealed to Polish politicians to “abandon hate speech towards Jews.”

DETAILS ON a Jewish grave in Poland

Poland cancels visit by Israeli officials to discuss property restitution

The ruling Law and Justice Party views Poland as a victim of World War II, and that therefore Poland should not be required to pay damages to other victims.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki reacts after receiving his nomination during a government swearing-in ceremony in Warsaw, Poland, December 11, 2017.

Polish PM: Poles were greatest victims of WWII

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that Poles were the most murdered victims during WWII, due to which they will never pay any sort of compensation.

Poland's former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki

Polish faction to submit bill to prevent WWII property reparations

The Kukiz 15 faction plans to submit a bill interpreted as preventing Jews from claiming reparations for property lost in the Holocaust.

Pawel Kukiz of Kukiz '15 party addressess supporters after the exit poll results are announced in Warsaw, Poland October 25, 2015.

Christian peasants credited for saving Jews during the Holocaust

Jerusalemite Betty Eppel recalled how she and her younger brother were hidden during the Holocaust by a Christian couple on a French farm.

Left: BETTY EPPEL (standing, left) visits Josephine and Victor Guicherd in France in 1986. Right: VICTOR GUICHERD’S clock hangs in Betty Eppel’s house