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The Never Again Association Releases a Report on Grzegorz Braun
The Never Again Association describes itself thus,
"The 'NEVER AGAIN' Association is an independent civil society organization founded in Warsaw in 1996. It has campaigned against racism, antisemitism, and xenophobia, for peace, intercultural dialogue and human rights across the world … The major objectives of the 'NEVER AGAIN' Association include:
building a broad and inclusive movement
against racism and discrimination, for respect, inclusivity and diversity;
eliminating or marginalizing racist,
xenophobic and antisemitic tendencies in various spheres of life."
The Never Again Association webpage is here.
In December, 2023, the Never Again
Association released "Braun's Hate," a report addressing Grzegorz
Braun's activities. The full, 29-page report can be read here.
The report begins,
"The 'NEVER AGAIN' Association has
prepared a special report that documents several dozen examples of hateful
actions and statements of Grzegorz Braun, Member of Polish Parliament from the
far right Konfederacja (Confederation) party. The hatred expressed by Braun did
not start with the infamous 12 December 2023 attack on the hannukiah in the
Parliament, using a fire extinguisher. In fact, the Konfederacja MP has for
years promoted conspiracy theories about Jews taking over Poland, mocked the
victims of Nazi camps, called for violence against LGBT people, and boasted
about tearing down Ukrainian flags."
Here are just a few examples from the
report:
"On 2 April 2019, in an interview
published on the YouTube channel of wRealu24, online TV, Grzegorz Braun
demanded penalties for homosexuality. He said, 'Let's negotiate not the boundaries
of tolerance, but of penalisation. … If someone comes up with a liberal bill introducing
whipping of homosexuals, then we can discuss how to implement it whether through
European Parliament or Warsaw's Parliament.'
On 9 April 2020, in an interview for the
Panta Rhei channel on YouTube, Braun presented xenophobic conspiracy theories
about the origins of COVID--19, 'Might it be simply an act of biological
warfare? …Who might benefit from it? The Chinese, Americans, Muscovites, Jews,
or all of them at once?'
Braun referred to modern Poland as 'a
Russian German condominium under Jewish fiduciary government', adding that 'the
Jewish fiduciary government has, of course, its guarantor and protector in the
American empire'. He continued: 'Germans, Jews and sodomites must not re write
our history and instruct us how to behave in our own home'"