Poland's Jews set up anti-Semitism database
Around 20 messages already received since operation Magen was launched
"We have launched this initiative after the recent attack in Warsaw against the chief rabbi of Poland and also after members of our community have received threatening mobile phone text messages," Piotr Kadlcik, head of the Jewish community in Poland, told AFP.
Around 20 messages have already been received since the launch of the operation named "Magen" - Hebrew for "shield" - was announced.
"We carefully check each case before we alert the police," Kadlcik said.
Poland's Grand Rabbi Michael Schudrich was insulted and sprayed with tear gas in a street in Warsaw in late May, the day before he was due to say Kaddish at a ceremony led by Pope Benedict XVI at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in southern Poland.
Schudrich placed part of the blame for the attack on the entry of a far-right party into Poland's coalition government, saying it "empowers nationalists and those who run around shouting unpleasant things."
'You have to stand up'
Early this month, Polish police arrested two people linked to a neo-Nazi website and charged eight others with collaborating on the site, police officer Pawel Biedziak said.
Kadlcik said Poland, where the Jewish community numbers around 5,000, was "thankfully not yet at the same level of violence as in Germany or France," but urged the Jewish and other communities not to let down their guard against anti-Semitism.
"You could say we have minor anti-Semitism, but you have to stand up to that, too," he said.
