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


Monument in Poland to mass graves of Jewish Holocaust victims vandalized

The monument consists of a stone with plaque in Hebrew and Polish. It commemorates the Jews executed there by the Germans in August and September of 1942.

Mass grave of Holocaust victims in the Ukraine.

From Moscow to Berlin

An exhibition focused on my mother’s role in Polish history.

VADIM LIDIN ‘A storm of Epic Proportions’ – acrylic and ink on canvas, 100 cm x 70 cm

Polish prosecutors will not reopen case into 1941 Jedwabne pogrom

The prosecutor’s office said that exhuming the bodies of the Jewish victims would not provide any new evidence that could lead to the reopening of the case.

Woman vists Jedwabne pogrom memorial R300

Polish Holocaust researchers attacked at Paris Shoah research conference

Professor Jacek Leociak from the Polish Academy of Sciences was insulted after leaving the School for Advanced Research in Social Sciences.

A view of the synagogue in Konin, Poland

The Polish-Israeli crisis: Mixing history and diplomacy

Diplomacy should be left to diplomats.

Chief Rabbi of Poland Michael Schudrich talks with Warsaw bishop Kazimierz Nycz (L) as he sits near Israel Ambassador to Poland David Peleg during the laying of the cornerstone for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw June 26, 2007.

The clash of the prime ministers

This collective memory constitutes Jews as the ultimate victims, whereas “the Poles” are a nation of collaborators. But history is always more complex than such simplistic characterizations.

Polish President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet in New York on September 26, 2018.

Middle Israel: the foreign minister’s Polish joke

A day will come when Israelis will also be in a position to talk to foreign governments as frankly as they talk to each other. Until then, Israeli foreign ministers will have to make friends.

Israel Katz (L) whispers to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) during a cabinet meeting, December 9th, 2018

Reports about Jewish cemetery’s vandalized in Poland false - officials

The municipality has not replied to JTA’s requests for information.

A monument with Nazi swastikas painted over it in Jedwabne

V4 summit canceled in Jerusalem after Poland quits over Holocaust crisis

Poles furious after acting Foreign Minister Israel Katz quotes former prime minister Yitzhak Shamir to the effect that 'Poles imbibe antisemitism from their mothers' milk.'

Middle East summit in Warsaw

Anatomy of a crisis: How Israel-Polish relations collapsed

A day-by-day account of how a crisis that started with a mistaken quote unraveled Israeli-Polish ties.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki attends a commemoration event at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau, during the ceremonies marking the 74th anniversary of the liberation of the camp and International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day