Anti-Semitic posts on the Web – the Commissioner’s intervention

Date of article: 23/09/2019

Daily News of: 26/09/2019

Country:  Poland

Author: Polish Ombudsman

Article language: en

2019-09-23

The Commissioner for Human Rights addressed the Chairman of the National Council of the Judiciary regarding anti-Semitic posts on the web.

Text of the letter:

In August 2015, on the online forum of Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, a user with the nickname jorry123 published a post which was anti-Semitic in nature and which called the Jewish nation a vile and lousy nation. The person with that nickname published also several other hateful posts on the web, for example one that referred to the pogrom in Kielce as a provocation by the communist Security Service, and as one knows, in that Security Service Jews formed a majority, so they attacked other Jews in order to justify the further war against the indomitable soldiers.

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