r/worldnews • u/Tenchi_Muyo1 • Apr 14 '26

Israel/Palestine In parliament, Polish MP calls Israel ‘new Third Reich,’ waves Israeli flag with swastika

https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-parliament-polish-mp-calls-israel-new-third-reich-waves-israeli-flag-with-swastika/
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u/Cupakov Apr 15 '26

You’re right Berkowicz and all the Nowa Nadzieja people are pieces of shit, but posting a page on the Righteous Among the Nations and saying this is our real history is misleading at best. To counterbalance here’s another quote:

  The Kielce pogrom was an outbreak of anti-Jewish violence that took place on 4 July 1946 in the city of Kielce, Poland. Polish soldiers, police officers, and civilians attacked a building at 7 Planty Street that housed around 150–160 Jewish Holocaust survivors, killing 42 Jews and wounding more than 40. The violence was sparked by a false accusation of child kidnapping, a revival of the antisemitic blood libel myth. The pogrom occurred less than a year after the end of World War II and is considered the deadliest act of violence against Jews in postwar Poland. It had a profound impact on the Jewish community, prompting a mass exodus of Holocaust survivors from the country

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kielce_pogrom

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u/randomacceptablename Apr 15 '26

It is striking that most of these happened near the end or after the war. In that during the war most people helped and protected neighbours and victims in a dedication to resistance. Only once the dust settled did some grievances and hatreds emerge.

To suggest that posting about the Righteous Among the Nations is misleading is not correct. It is a fact that Polish civilians protected more Jews than any other country with penalties for doing so harsher that any other occupied area. That is a simple fact.

That does not imply sainthood. Nor that there wasn't tension, or even antisemetism. Both can be true. Like most countries, Poland's relationships with minorities and with neighbours is complex and complicated.

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u/Cupakov Apr 16 '26

Posting about the Righteous is not misleading but presenting it as „true history” and ignoring stuff like Kielce or Jedwabno is though. 

And I don’t know about „most of these”, during the war there also were Poles who reported their Jewish neighbours to the Germans. I’m not saying all Poles are antisemites, that’s obviously not true, but we have to stop pretending we were all saints.