tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post8460319523219158262..comments2024-03-11T08:31:04.022-04:00Comments on Bieganski the Blog: Poland Is the Most Anti-Semitic Country in the WorldD Goskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-62064454410622384802016-01-31T15:33:59.763-05:002016-01-31T15:33:59.763-05:00You cannot deal with Jewish-Polish relations as if...You cannot deal with Jewish-Polish relations as if they were simple. Casimir the Great invited Jews into Poland and both the kings and the nobles were very generous in giving them autonomous rights in the land. The great opponent of the Jews throughout Polish history was the Catholic church. Its reasons were not racial but religious, but the difference sometimes is meaningless. Jews were loyal to Poland through the last Polish partition in 1795. Thereafter many of them chose to place loyalty to Austria, Prussia (Germany) and Russia above loyalty to a disappeared Poland. Many were voluntarily or forcibly russified; other chose German culture. This tended to alienate them from Polish nationalism which by the end of the 19th century came to be rather antisemitic. Those Jews in Poland between WWI and WWII were often more inclined to favor Russian culture than Polish culture, especially the ones from the Baltic states. This prevented the old symbiosis of Jews and Poles to return. norman ravitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00799294194261724595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-27351169458204739132015-05-07T02:32:15.890-04:002015-05-07T02:32:15.890-04:00LUKASZ : really don't understand why Americans...LUKASZ : really don't understand why Americans think that all Jews are experts on all things cancerning Poland and Poles.<br /><br />because the Jews have a strong lobby in the USA.<br /><br />In my opinion Americans think that all Jews are experts on all things in general.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-64819276122337362762014-01-21T14:38:47.098-05:002014-01-21T14:38:47.098-05:00Very interesting conversation. I stumbled over it ...Very interesting conversation. I stumbled over it having been searching for information relating to Nicholas Anelka and his reverse nazi salute on the football field. <br />I live in sleepy Norfolk in the UK. I originate from a small town of 30,000 inhabitants of which 10,000 are Polish. I'm sorry to say that my personal experience is that there seems to be an awful lot of them that are racist, sexist alcoholics. In fact the typical Polish male looks like a skinhead, covered in tattoos, drunken, aggressive and oh so loud. This is a town that has 10,000 Portuguese also! Portuguese have integrated wonderfully over the last ten years or so, although it was a little rocky initially. I just can't imagine that the Poles will ever integrate. As for being anti Semitic, I can't say. I don't think anti semitism is something that rears its head outside of Muslim communities and so I wouldn't notice, especially since there are no Jews in the rural areas.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-65034832803093248222013-01-01T04:13:28.819-05:002013-01-01T04:13:28.819-05:00All this talk by a certain vocal element of the Je...All this talk by a certain vocal element of the Jewish community that about how Poland is the world's most anti-semitic country blah blah blah makes no sense since Jews disproportionately CHOSE Poland to live in for ONE THOUSAND YEARS. I'm sure there were some bad Poles since there is good in bad in all groups of people.<br /><br />But if there was this overwhelming anti-semitism in Poland.....24 hours a day....7 days a week....365 days a year....for ONE THOUSAND YEARS...then WHY did most Jews CHOOSE to live in Poland...for ONE THOUSAND YEARS??????? That's nuts!<br /><br />If Poles were as anti-semitic as these Jews claim...then Jews have to be the most INSANE or FOOLISH people in the world!<br /><br />A lot of this "Polish people are the worst anti-semites in the world" I see when I have read Jewish nationalist ethnic newspapers like the "Jewish Press" and the Jewish "Forward". But the very strange thing about these newspapers is that while they go on and on and on and on....blasting Poland for its "long history of anti-semitism"....they also IRONICALLY talk about how Jewish culture had FLOURISHED and grew a lot in Poland. HOW can this be???<br /><br />Its too bad these Jews always criticizing Poland....never talk about the great rabbi Moses Isserles who said...."If it were NOT for Poland...the existence of the tribe of Israel would have been unbearable". Indeed rabbi Isserles is correct. Yet Poland NEVER EVER gets credit for letting Jews into Poland when most other countries kicked them out. Jews NEVER give Poland credit for ANYTHING. So if the Poles were this horrible....WHY did Jews continue to CHOOSE and STAY to live in Poland for ONE THOUSAND YEARS??? That makes no sense unless they are crazy or foolish. <br /><br />Most of the greatest Jewish rabbis and philosophers came from POLAND....NOT other countries. Gee I wonder why. It must have been all of that "Polish anti-semitism" that allowed this to happen.<br /><br />And if Poland was this horrible to Jews....WHY didn't they leave Poland hundreds of years ago???Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-38473126959653383632012-05-06T17:33:08.603-04:002012-05-06T17:33:08.603-04:00Let us refocus this discussion. Is Poland truly th...Let us refocus this discussion. Is Poland truly the most anti-Semitic country in the world? If so, it should be impossible to locate even one Polish Jew who had not personally suffered from Polish anti-Semitism. In fact, I have come across several Polish Jews who wrote that, at least while growing up, they had personally experienced no Polish anti-Semitism! To see my new list of these self-reviewed books, please click on my name in this specific posting.Mr. Jan Peczkishttp://www.amazon.com/Pre-WWII-Polish-Jews-Experiencing-Little-or-No-Anti-Semitism/lm/R1ZFIG55Z3P9Z7/ref=cm_lm_byauthor_title_fullnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-86797890550301112992012-02-07T13:57:25.243-05:002012-02-07T13:57:25.243-05:00Hi Peter, Wosiu, Danusha and all, Isn't the po...Hi Peter, Wosiu, Danusha and all, Isn't the point here the double standards? Anything can apparently be used as proof positive that "all Poles" shot Bambi's mother/stole the river Danube/started the great fire of London*. <br /><br />If that is going to be the state of play, then it should work both ways. But it doesn't. Of course, I would very much rather that no-one was generalised about in this way. It is never right or fair. <br /><br />And we will all benefit ourselves if, in the face of these pressures from the world, we can remember that love "does not keep account of the injury". <br /><br />It helps me to know that while the world chooses to ignore Stalin's victims, the Creator of life does not. <br />Jehovah has told us so right from the start. “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground."<br /> <br />The millions and millions killed by Stalin and his willing executioners are not hidden from, nor forgotten by, the true God. If you wish, I can send you some information published by The Watchtower Society about what happened to Polish and other Eastern European Jehovah's Witnesses at the hands of the Stalin regime.<br /><br />*strike out accusations which do not fit the current Handbook of Political Correctness (I can no longer keep up)Sue Knight's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12597157298218651144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-64399101001954284862012-02-07T07:06:01.338-05:002012-02-07T07:06:01.338-05:00Many Poles complain that negative comments about P...Many Poles complain that negative comments about Polish behaviour are always generalised so that all are tarred with the same brush and here we have a perfect example of someone doing exactly the same by heading their "contribution" to this thread "JEWS TORTURED AND MURDERED etc etc... <br /><br />Look Wosiu, some Jews were communists as were some Poles and some Jews were capitalists as were plenty of WASPS. What's it prove - absolutely nothing. Your entire post here about about Jewish communists in Poland is irrelevant to the discussion and Pilecki, had he read your post, would I am sure, have given your argument short shrift, as would Jan Karski.Peter Rechniewskinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-72596510083884466902012-02-06T10:32:55.834-05:002012-02-06T10:32:55.834-05:00JEWS TORTURED AND MURDERED VOLUNTEER TO AUSCHWITZ
...JEWS TORTURED AND MURDERED VOLUNTEER TO AUSCHWITZ<br /><br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki<br /><br />Witold Pilecki (May 13, 1901 May 25, 1948; codenames Roman Jezierski, Tomasz Serafiski, Druh, Witold) was a soldier of the Second Polish Republic, the founder of the Secret Polish Army (Tajna Armia Polska) Polish resistance group and a member of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa). As the author of the first intelligence report on Auschwitz, Pilecki's operation enabled the Polish Government in Exile to convince the Allies that the Holocaust was taking place.<br />During World War II, he volunteered for a Polish resistance operation to get imprisoned at Auschwitz concentration camp in order to gather intelligence and escape. While in the camp, Pilecki organized a resistance movement and as early as 1940, informed the Western Allies of Nazi Germany's Auschwitz atrocities. He escaped from the camp in 1943 and took part in the Warsaw Uprising. He remained loyal to the London-based Polish government in exile and was executed in 1948 by the communist secret police Urzad Bezpieczestwa on charges of working for "foreign imperialism" [...]<br /><br />After 1945 Poland was occupated by Soviets and so-called "Polish" communist regime was totally based on Polish-origin Jews which came to Poland with Red Army. They had main positions in government and local authorities, they had abt. 90% in UB (communist secret police) authorithies and min. 40% in UB total.<br /><br />They tortured and murdered dozens of thousands Polish patriots between 1945 and 1956.<br />As they tortured and murdered Witold Pilecki, war hero, volunteer to Auschwitz.<br /><br />Some of Jews who participated in tortures and so-called court-sanctioned-murder of Pilecki:<br /><br />Henryk Podlaski ( Hersz Podlaski, son of Mojzes Podlaski and Szprynca Austern)<br />Rubin Szwajg ( son of Dawid Szwajg)<br />Lew Hochberg. ( son of Szoel Gohberg and Rejzla Waintraub)<br />Jacek Rózanski (Józef Goldberg),<br />Adam Humer<br />Józef Czaplicki<br />Roman Romkowski (Natan Grunspan-Kikiel)<br /><br />Piotr Smietanski executed Witold Pilecki with a single shot to the back of the head. Piotr Smietanski emigrated from Poland to Israel after 1968.<br /><br />http://www.doomedsoldiers.com/volunteer-to-Auschwitz.html :<br /><br />Witold Pilecki was interrogated and tortured by: Col. Jozef Rozanski, Lt. S. Lyszkowski, Lt. Krawczynski, 2nd Lt. J. Kroszel, Lt. Tadeusz Slowianek, 2nd Lt. Eugeniusz Chimczak, and Lt. Stefan Alaborski*, all famed for their brutality and inhumane treatment of political prisoners. The horror of the interrogations lasted for over six months. Pilecki's interrogations were personally supervised by Colonel Roman Romkowski. The other prisoners incarcerated at the Rakowiecka Prison at the same time as Pilecki stated, that his entire body was black and blue as a result of endless beatings, and that all of his fingernails were torn off. Pilecki had told his wife that Auschwitz was child's play in comparison to the horror he had endured at the hands of his communists tormentors.<br /><br />*all Jews<br /><br /><br /><br />Interrogation methods of Jewish UB:<br />Marek Jan Chodakiewicz: The Dialectics of Pain: The Interrogation Methods of the Communist Secret Police in Poland, 1944-1955. Glaukopis, vol. 2/3 (2004-2005). Part 1<br /><br />http://www.projectinposterum.org/docs/chodakiewicz1.htmWosiunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-8067383866310689732012-02-04T12:38:56.265-05:002012-02-04T12:38:56.265-05:00Joke or no joke, you had cited it as a valid examp...Joke or no joke, you had cited it as a valid example. Glad that we now agree on the non sequitur.<br /><br />To speak of "few Jews" as UB leaders is disingenuous because there was only a limited number of leadership positions available. There were thousands of them. Even then, some 37% of UB leaders were Jewish in a nation whose population was only 1% Jewish. This is a HUGE disparity. And it was by no means the first time that Poland's Jews had supported Poland's enemies to a very significant extent.<br /><br />It is not a matter of condemning all Jews. Far from it. It is about getting Jews to finally own up to their own wrongs against Poles instead of engaging in selective historical memory by only complaining about Polish anti-Semitism. Get it?Mr. Jan Peczkishttp://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A3Q04XXGGED746/ref=cm_cr_dp_auth_rev?ie=UTF8&sort_by=MostRecentReviewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-73442678525017064612012-02-04T09:12:41.877-05:002012-02-04T09:12:41.877-05:00Mr. Pieczkis, I was quoting a joke. It simply came...Mr. Pieczkis, I was quoting a joke. It simply came to my mind when I was reading posts above. Maybe its to old to be funny, but it shouldn't be treated seriously even now. I would always chose U.S.A. (even in it's darkest moment of history) over Soviet Union. And I think most of my countrymen would agree with me. <br />As for Jews in communist service, how many could that be? Few hundred? I don't think it's enough to condemn all Polish Jews. <br />Jewish experience in Poland is often seen in the shadow of Holocaust. It's unfair image. Shoah came from Germany, a foreign land. Life of many Jews in Poland was no fairy tale, especially those of poor backround. But comparing their fate to fate of slaves is nonsense. They didin't came on slaveships. They didin't work on cotton plantations. If it was so bad, then only masochists would stay.Łukasznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-34605527002510278992012-02-03T22:32:06.874-05:002012-02-03T22:32:06.874-05:00The shame is YOURS, Molly. You are resorting to gu...The shame is YOURS, Molly. You are resorting to guilt-by-association, a standard left-wing tactic. Oh well, nothing new.<br /><br />BTW, the notion that I am "his" reviewer is simply his opinion. I am no one's reviewer except my own. I am an independent thinker. <br /><br />If you choose to bring up Piotr Bein, which not represent him fully in terms of what he is saying? On the page you bring up, he talks about how outspoken priests are being silenced. That is why he brings up my reviews. <br /><br />Well said, Dr. Goska.Mr. Jan Peczkishttp://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A3Q04XXGGED746/ref=cm_cr_dp_auth_rev?ie=UTF8&sort_by=MostRecentReviewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-55624421699797556952012-02-03T19:48:35.586-05:002012-02-03T19:48:35.586-05:00no one should be blacklisted. we should talk to ea...no one should be blacklisted. we should talk to each other, and take on each other's ideas with words.<br /><br />blacklisting is a disgusting tactic of the world's robespierres and mccarthys and hitlers and stalins.<br /><br />stop recommending it here. understand?<br /><br />a second point. just because someone is quoted by antisemites does not mean someone is antisemitic. antisemitic sites quote the adl, the nyt, etc<br /><br />if anyone here wants to make a concrete, specific and civil objection to anything anyone else here has posted, please do so. please stop posting innuendo and snide insults.D Goskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-48160068383432547842012-02-03T19:30:45.973-05:002012-02-03T19:30:45.973-05:00Again, I urge Polish readers to click on the link ...Again, I urge Polish readers to click on the link I mentioned above (grypa666) for more information on Jan Peczkis. He, of course, claims to have nothing to do with this vile site, claiming that he only sent out a mass email (which makes you wonder about the company he keeps). Let's hear him explain why his name prominently appears in the site's category list. <br /><br />Readers of this blog should also check out the following blog: <br /><br />http://piotrbein.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/judeomasons-are-at-it-again/<br /><br />This blog entry, authored by one Piotr Bein (a crackpot basement dweller who blames Zionists for the Holocaust and advocates the crackpot theories of David Duke and other such luminaries), introduces Jan Peczkis as (check the link, it's all there) follows: <br /><br />"Just to refresh with whom we are dealing again, here are several reviews by our American-Polish reviewer on Amazon.com."<br /><br />Our reviewer? Care to comment, Jan Peczkis? <br /><br />For shame. <br /><br />MollyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-88659633442838726672012-02-03T14:00:49.446-05:002012-02-03T14:00:49.446-05:00To the contrary--if you are going to attack me, YO...To the contrary--if you are going to attack me, YOU be specific in your insinuations.Mr. Jan Peczkishttp://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A3Q04XXGGED746/ref=cm_aya_bb_pdpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-65370097189775398342012-02-03T13:59:04.115-05:002012-02-03T13:59:04.115-05:00Let us not give credence to false symmetries. The ...Let us not give credence to false symmetries. The US treatment of blacks in the past, however unfair, cannot remotely be compared with the ghastly and systematic denial of human rights under tsarist Russia and then the Soviet Union.<br /><br />As for Poles preferring to dwell on Jews who betrayed Poland rather than those who supported her, the question becomes whether Jewish loyalty or disloyalty was more common--I am speaking about the times when Jews were in a position that they did not reasonably HAVE to support Poland. Furthermore, to the extent that the Jews were a nation-less people who were allowed to live in Poland as a favor from the Polish nation, loyalty to Poland was something expected--not a favor but a due.<br /><br />In any case, could it be that Poles prefer to talk about Jews who were disloyal to Poland because Jews prefer to talk about Polish anti-Semitism rather than about the ways that their ancestors had provoked, or at least facilitated this anti-Semitism?<br /><br />Also, could it be that Poles prefer to talk about Jews who were disloyal to Poland because Jews prefer to bad-mouth their experience in Poland instead of remembering all the privileges they had--privileges which most Poles did not have?Mr. Jan Peczkishttp://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A3Q04XXGGED746/ref=cm_aya_bb_pdpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-43677111542658260992012-02-03T01:43:31.810-05:002012-02-03T01:43:31.810-05:00Hello Lukasz. Yes, it does sometimes feel as if t...Hello Lukasz. Yes, it does sometimes feel as if the current Official Version of Polish history begins and ends with Auschwitz. Nothing apparently happened there before or afterwards - except anything that Professor Jan Gross happens to write about. I don't involve myself in Polish Jewish issues as I feel (rightly or wrongly) that they are so politicised that there is no level ground for me in them. But I do think it well worth illuminating the blatant double standards - which demonstrate the politics. And I think that we should follow the lead of our Creator, Jehovah, the God of Abraham, the true God, and always try to look on others in a positive way - not a negative critical way. And I think that this agenda can be discussed without going against that. Also we need to remember that God has told us that love "does not keep account of the injury", as "the world" is pushing us very strongly in the other way - albeit in a very selective way. As George Orwell might have said: "All injuries are equal, but some are more equal than others."Sue Knight's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12597157298218651144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-8724298104061546792012-02-02T22:11:16.312-05:002012-02-02T22:11:16.312-05:00[posting as anonymous, because I don't know ho...[posting as anonymous, because I don't know how to pick a profile to post - Victor Lapides<br /><br />Joy, the link starting "grypa666" and posted by anonymous above is in Polish, which of course I can't read, but I can easily make out loads of references to Jews, antisemitism, Zionism, and a picture ridiculing Elie Wiesel, and another picture overlapping a Jewish star with I think the Russian eagle symbol. And Peczkis's name can be seen on the site, though I don't know in what context. (The first time I tried to get on it was unsuccessful and somehow I did see that Amazon thing you're talking about, but trying again got me onto the Polish language site. Anyway, I read his posts here and he leaves little to the imagination. Check it out and tell me I'm wrong. VictorAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-6501521212156592022012-02-02T15:48:36.579-05:002012-02-02T15:48:36.579-05:00The link takes me to Amazon where Jan Peczkis has ...The link takes me to Amazon where Jan Peczkis has reviewed hundreds of books. Nothing nefarious. Shame on you Mr. Lapides!Joy Zamoyski Kochhttp://www.smartfarmhq.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-89501952957142491712012-02-02T13:51:36.815-05:002012-02-02T13:51:36.815-05:00Lukasz, please see this series of blog posts:
htt...Lukasz, please see this series of blog posts:<br /><br />http://bieganski-the-blog.blogspot.com/2011/02/polands-importance-to-jews-jews.htmlD Goskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-67650588350973732672012-02-02T13:21:25.140-05:002012-02-02T13:21:25.140-05:00Most of Poles don't like when tourists ask the...Most of Poles don't like when tourists ask them about Holocaust monuments and cementeries. We hear too often that Poland is one big mass grave of Jewish people. Some of us may react with anger when asked. Some will simply lie. Gabe043 probably wasn't the first one who asked that woman about wagon monument. Maybe she was fed up with that question. <br />I don't like where this discussion is going. I know stories about Jews in communist security, I also know stories about Polish szmalcowniks who betrayed their countrymen. This talk is starting to remind me an old joke from Soviet era. American-Russian dispute:"You, Russians, break human rights in your camps!" "And you, Americans, persecute black people!"<br />Sadly we, Poles, don't like to remember Polish Jews who were loyal and heroic. Instead talking about traitors on both sides, why don't we mention people like Baruch Steiberg, Bernard Mond, Henryk Jedwab, Stanisław Aronson or Berek Joselewicz. If Jews could have been such good Poles, doesn't that say something about us? Doesn't that say something about Poland if they were willing to die for her?Łukasznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-47358022763257650942012-02-02T12:09:45.504-05:002012-02-02T12:09:45.504-05:00[posting as "anonymous", as I don't ...[posting as "anonymous", as I don't know how to choose a profile to post - Victor Lapides]<br /><br />Ever since this started, I've searched my memory for what these Russian Jews told me about the Polish. I remember adamant positions about antisemitism in modern Poland. Did they say "most antisemitic in Europe" or their part of Europe and limit it to that, and did I expand on the notion to say "possibly most antisemitic country in the world"? I have to admit that I might have done that, especially given my own perception of the character of antisemitism in Arab lands. But I think some reading which I've done lately renders my statement very difficult to defend. Based on what I'm learning, I didn't grasp the very virulent antisemitism that grips today's Middle East, an animus which goes well beyond anti-Zionism and takes on the comprehensive kind of hatred of Jews which I always thought of as much more a European/Christian phenomenon. I do live in the States and haven't been to the Middle East - or Eastern Europe, for that matter - and statements on a subject such as this should be made only with the greatest of care, and I never would have broadcast mine in a public forum like this if it were up to me. Victor LapidesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-52522718329314065622012-02-01T12:10:51.410-05:002012-02-01T12:10:51.410-05:00[As is my practice, I sign on as "anonymous&q...[As is my practice, I sign on as "anonymous" because I don't know how to select a profile to post - Victor Lapides]<br /><br />Dr. Goska, I'm just curious. Which one of your regulars is Mr. Peczkis - prize-winning poet, novelist, scholar or gentle spiritual seeker? VLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-53895091776191485582012-01-31T17:44:18.768-05:002012-01-31T17:44:18.768-05:00[posting as usual as "anonymous" because...[posting as usual as "anonymous" because I don't know how to select a profile. Victor Lapides]<br /><br />Jan, I don't know what to say . . . you've outdone yourself!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-77914491649086470992012-01-31T16:02:02.399-05:002012-01-31T16:02:02.399-05:00Do not jump to anti-Polish conclusions. Consider g...Do not jump to anti-Polish conclusions. Consider graffiti. Anonymous falls into a number of non sequiturs. Even if anti-Semitic graffiti is indeed more common in Poland, it does not necessarily follow that Poles are more anti-Semitic than other nations. <br /><br />To begin with, graffiti has a cultural component. What if Poles are more prone to do graffiti than many other peoples? That is only one variable that needs to be controlled. <br /><br />In fact, Poles have been known to be quite creative in their graffiti. For instance, during the Nazi occupation, when Germans reserved the best buildings for themselves by posting NUR FOR DEUTSCHEN (For Germans Only) signs, the Poles would draw hangmen's nooses next to the signs, infuriating the Germans. <br /><br />Considering their long history of being ruled by totalitarians, graffiti may have long endured as one of the few anonymous ways of Polish expression, even though formal totalitarianism had ended long ago.<br /><br />Another major factor in graffiti is its rate of removal. Poles, unfortunately, are not exactly known as a cleanliness-oriented people. What if graffiti in Poland is more common primarily because it can accumulate over a longer period of time--because it takes longer to be removed than in most other nations?<br /><br />Finally, much "anti-Semitic" graffiti is not directed against all Jews, but specifically against the Holocaust Industry and its efforts to extort tribute money from Poland. The cartoon of the hook-nosed Jew coming to Poland to fill his bags with money, and one with the elder Jew pointing to Warsaw's skyline and saying to his son, "Some day, this will all be yours", for example, fit into this category.Mr. Jan Peczkishttp://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A3Q04XXGGED746/ref=cm_cr_dp_auth_rev?ie=UTF8&sort_by=MostRecentReviewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-11494352670138222482012-01-31T14:39:23.830-05:002012-01-31T14:39:23.830-05:00Don't forget that Poles tend to be more expres...Don't forget that Poles tend to be more expressive of their views than the more reserved, politically-correct western Europeans. Thus polls of the ADL type can be misleading.<br /><br />Also, Jewish responsibility for the Crucifixion of Christ is not just believed by some Christians, but also by some Jews--who not only take responsibility for it but also make a matter of pride in it, according to some interpretations of the Talmud.Mr. Jan Peczkishttp://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A3Q04XXGGED746/ref=cm_aya_bb_pdpnoreply@blogger.com