Posted on 02/22/2018 2:05:08 PM PST by Grzegorz 246
Ruderman Family Foundation opens online petition, releases video showing people saying 'Polish Holocaust' in defiance of controversial legislation
The Ruderman Family Foundation, an American Jewish philanthropic organization, launched a campaign urging the United States to suspend its ties with Poland over that countrys law on rhetoric about the Holocaust.
The campaign includes a petition for suspension hosted on the NeverDeny.org website and a professionally produced video message. It shows men, women and children saying Polish Holocaust, which is supposed to be in defiance of the law passed by Poland earlier this month.
The law criminalizes blaming the Polish nation or state for Nazi crimes. Israel and several Jewish organizations, as well as the US Department of State and the French foreign ministry, protested the law. Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Israel, also opposed it while noting that blaming Poles for the Holocaust and use of the phrase Polish death camps is unfair.
Ridiculing the law, one of the people in the film produced by the Ruderman Family Foundation an organization focused on facilitating greater inclusion for people with disabilities and strengthening ties between American Jews and Israel is seen standing in a bar holding a beverage while saying I wonder if they have been in Polish prison.
A mother sitting on a sofa with two children is filmed saying: Ill miss them when Im gone, referencing her imagined imprisonment. An elderly man is seen saying: No Polish prison scares me.
The people filmed then say that after 3.5 million Jews were murdered in Poland, including hundreds of thousands of children, the Poles have passed a new law. They then add: I will go to jail and: Repeal this disgraceful law now.
The website set up by the Ruderman Family Foundation for the petition does not say how many signatures it has gathered so far.
And I can’t think of any country that has a museum solely dedicated to the history of Jews in their country, as Poland does, and I’ve actually been there.
That was a creepy scene; that actor did a brilliant job.
Any analysis of the mass murders of the 1930s and 40s must separate people killed strictly as part of a genocide (which millions of Jews were) and people who were killed for political reasons. For example, Jewish members of the International Brigades who died fighting against Franco from 1936-1938 died as communists, not Jews - and Franco then provided a haven for many Jews fleeing the Holocaust shortly afterwards. Can’t call Spain anti-Semitic after that.
And in so far as Poland is fighting to keep Europe from becoming Eurabia, this was the last thing they needed. The people who introduced this law are objective traitors to Poland, Europe, and Western Civilization
“However, the Polish law also protects Polish collaborators and Poles who chose to murder and rob Jews.”
How so ?
“” “” The Poles pass a law that states they had zero to do with what the Germans did on there soil and a large organization wants the USA to say that Poland is no longer our ally?”” “”
You have to admit that the law is ridiculous. Criminalizing free speech is not to be supported. Although to ban Poland over it is as ridiculous. Free speech is not a norm nowadays in Europe. Why don’t ban Germany and UK which imprison over free speech too?
“” “” And in so far as Poland is fighting to keep Europe from becoming Eurabia, this was the last thing they needed. The people who introduced this law are objective traitors to Poland, Europe, and Western Civilization “” “”
Fighting? Where have at least a single battle took place? Poland is making a lot of populist noise against migration and I support at least that but no battle taking place.
If the experience of Lithuania and Ukraine are any guide, then historians, survivors, and others who point out Polish collusion, especially by revered partisan groups like the one the Polish Prime Minister visited prior to calling Jews collaborators, will be prosecuted
” historians, survivors, and others who point out Polish collusion, especially by revered partisan groups like the one the Polish Prime Minister visited prior to calling Jews collaborators, will be prosecuted”
So which part of that law indicates that effect ?
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