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Miriam Shaviv

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Miriam Shaviv

Opinion

The Polish: not antisemitic, just dislike Jews

November 27, 2009 11:16
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A rather sad piece on the BBC website about a Polish woman who only recently discovered she is Jewish - and is still afraid to tell her own children, because her Cathlic husband's family "hates Jews".

So just how bad are attitudes to Jews in Poland?

"I wouldn't call it anti-semitism," says the President of the Union of Jewish communities of Poland Piotr Kadlcik. "It's more a broad dislike of Jews."

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