{"id":1138,"date":"2014-05-17T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T22:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2014-05-20T17:13:01","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T15:13:01","slug":"in-poland-a-new-national-debate-on-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=1138","title":{"rendered":"In Poland, A New National Debate On Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejewishweek.com\/sites\/default\/files\/jwpanels_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" \/><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejewishweek.com\/news\/international\/poland-new-national-debate-hate\">In Poland, A New National Debate On Hate<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Warsaw \u2014 A middle-aged, non-Jewish Polish man, driving a Jewish visitor from the States on a shopping errand one recent morning turned abruptly to his guest and asked, \u201cWhat do you think of the Polish people?\u201d <\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In case the question wasn\u2019t clear, the Pole clarified: \u201cDo you think all of us are anti-Semites?\u201d <\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\">It was a fair question. For many Jews who live outside of Poland, history stopped in 1945, when the facts of the Holocaust, much of which took place on Polish soil, came to light. To many Jews, most Poles are anti-Semitic. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Polish man did not wait for an answer. He answered his own question: \u201cOnly 2 percent of Poles are crazy,\u201d in other words, anti-Semitic, he said. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Anti-Semitism and other forms of racism are increasingly in the spotlight here these days. A swastika scrawled on an electrical transformer in northern Poland last year sparked an ongoing national debate about anti-Semitism and racism in Polish society. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\">But it wasn\u2019t the Nazi symbol itself that led to the latest round of national introspection \u2014 it was the prosecutor\u2019s reaction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejewishweek.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2014\/05\/01bot-right.feature_580x320.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Anti-Semitism in Poland \u201cstill exists on a level that\u2019s unacceptable,\u201d says Rafal Pankowski<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">czytaj wiecej tu .. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejewishweek.com\/news\/international\/poland-new-national-debate-hate\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Jewish Week<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0In Poland, A New National Debate On Hate Warsaw \u2014 A middle-aged, non-Jewish Polish man, driving a Jewish visitor from the States on a shopping errand one recent morning turned abruptly to his guest and asked, \u201cWhat do you think of the Polish people?\u201d In case the question wasn\u2019t clear, the Pole clarified: \u201cDo you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}