I've been wondering what the reaction is in Poland to the pogrom in Israel on October 7, 2023. Arab Muslims murdered and tortured more Jewish civilians in one day than anyone else since the Holocaust.
How have Poles and Polish American responded?
I don't know. I have not seen polls.
The above photos appeared on the web. One site claims that the woman is a Norwegian medical student named Marie Andersen.
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I dunno. This looks like a hoax, a provocation.
ReplyDeleteIn any case, it shows how much western European thinking is steeped in the standard Pole-accusing Holocaust-related narrative.
The image above is not a hoax. It is not a provocation. It is not "standard Pole accusing" whatever.
ReplyDeleteThe dean of the Medical department of Warsaw Medical University calls the Norwegian student. https://warszawa.wyborcza.pl/warszawa/7,54420,30329842,studentka-ktora-niosla-na-demonstracji-antysemicki-transprent.html
ReplyDeleteThanks for the links.
DeleteAll this begs the question why the Norwegian medical student chose to express herself in Poland, and not in her native Norway or in some other country. That way, some uninformed people will think that a Pole did it, while Poland as a whole will be blamed for "not doing enough" to combat antisemitism.
Either way, Poland is made to look bad. I suspect that such was the whole idea.
She studies in Warsaw.
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