Poland antisemitism

LAPD increases patrols around synagogues starting Rosh Hashanah, during Holy Days

The High Holy Days begin with Rosh Hashanah - the Jewish New Year - and continue through Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, which ends at nightfall October 2.

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
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

 Far-right European Parliament member from Poland, Grzegorz Braun, looks on during the first plenary session of the newly elected parliament in Strasbourg, France, July 16, 2024.

Right-wing Polish legislator says gas chambers fake, Auschwitz pushes 'psuedo history'


The comeback of the conservative-sovereigntist Right in Poland - analysis

The 43-year-old historian, director of the Polish National Remembrance Institute (IPN), won the presidential race, despite polls foreseeing his defeat.

Presidential campaign posters in Poland.

Poland votes for its next president, with Polish-Jewish history on the ballot

Voters are casting their ballots in the decisive runoff between Rafał Trzaskowski, the liberal-centrist mayor of Warsaw, and Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing historian rewriting Holocaust history.

Presidential campaign posters in Poland.

'History is central to Israel-Poland ties,' former ambassador to Poland tells 'Post'

DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS: Yacov Livne, Israel’s former ambassador to Poland, described Jewish life in Poland today, relations with Israel, and the attempts to rewrite the past.

 YACOV LIVNE (left) had to contend with diplomatic issues between Israel and Poland, Israeli political infighting, and the Ukraine-Russia war, during his term. Here, the former ambassador meets with Polish President Andrzej Duda.

European Parliament suspends MEP who disrupted Holocaust moment of silence

European Parliament Member Grzegorz Braun was suspended for thirty days from the European Parliament after disrupting the moment of silence "for the next victims of the Jewish genocide in Gaza."

 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.

Confronting the complex realities of Polish-Jewish identity - opinion

Nuance is in order regarding Poland and its Jews; Jennifer Stark-Blumenthal calls for a reevaluation of Jews’ attitudes toward Poles, as well as Poles’ understanding of Jews. 

 OSWIECIM, POLAND - APRIL 16, 2015: International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Honoring Jewish lives: Remembering Operation Reinhard in Lublin

Before the Holocaust, Lublin was considered as “Jerusalem of the North.”

 Professor Sabina Bober at the monument the the victims of the hospitals’ massacre next to Lublin

'A disgraceful act': Officials condemn vandalism of Warsaw Ghetto monument

Israel’s Ambassador to Poland Yacov Livne condemned the vandalism and called on authorities to properly investigate the incident. 

 Warsaw Ghetto monument vandalized in Poland.

‘Jews to the gas chambers’: Pro-Palestinian poster at Polish university draws condemnations

Police are investigating the poster, which was discovered among an array of pro-Palestinian banners.

'Jews to the gas chambers' poster found at Uniwersytet Jagielloński in Poland.

Jewish leader bashes former PM's denial of Poland's Holocaust role

"I say to the former Prime Minister: You cannot control the past. You must live with it, and learn from it. Go and learn,” Menachem Margolin of the European Jewish Association said.

  Auschwitz concentration camp, operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during the Holocaust.

Germans alone responsible for Holocaust, no Polish involvement - Former Polish PM says

Morawiecki's statements on the Holocaust, particularly his 2018 remarks suggesting multiple nationalities, including Jews, were perpetrators, sparked significant backlash.

Poland's former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki

Polish city throws children’s bubble party on top of Jewish graves

The former cemetery, now a children’s play area next to an elementary school, was demolished roughly 50 years ago, but the bodies were not removed.

A Jewish cemetery (illustrative)