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US Jewish group sparks anger in Poland with Holocaust video
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Published: 21.02.18, 23:32
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1. Only to be expected: war of attrition has begun, what a pity
(02.22.18)
2. son of holocaust survivors
Alex ,   Sydney   (02.22.18)
The "Holocaust Video" is an outrageous, hysterical and sadly disappointing response to a legislation which illustrates a revisionist attitude of the Polish government to the involvement of Poles in the Holocaust. Although the revisionist attitude of the Polish government is deplorable the video is a stupid and unhelpful distraction from the discourse.
3. step it back
Cameron   (02.22.18)
Do not try & pull us into this.

We like & favor Israel, but also have always liked & favored Poland.

Big error in trying to place us in the middle of this feuding baggage.
4. sure, let's just keep pouring hi-grade gasoline on this fire
Rafi ,   US   (02.22.18)
Could you Ruderman be any more stupid? Your action is 100% counter-productive... will NOT win over Americans - and will only backfire for the Jews.

Just drop it. If some Poles want to proceed down a path of ignorance & stupidity... why don't you just let them? or must you condescend into the same pit?

If you're looking to re-fight WW II, there must be some island where you & the extremist Poles can visit and do exactly that.

Meanwhile, leave the rest of the world out of your pointless exercises.
5. " POLAND RAGES "
TEL EM STRAIGHT ,   SAFED HONESTY   (02.22.18)
Nobody likes hearing the truth.....
6. How US Jews groups create hate and problems
Jack ,   Warsaw   (02.22.18)
The video published by Ruderman Family Foundation is an example, how to escalate the hate between the people. This is totally irresponsible action. people, who did it and promote should be ashamed.
They should watch the film - this is the true https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5125287,00.html
7. ynet, remove this video
C   (02.22.18)
the people in this video represent no one but themselves.

they are young no ignorants who have nothing to do with
israel.
their video is an incitement that harms the relevant parties.
any problems between poland, israel and the larger
jewish community will be solved without interference
from outside unknown extremist groups.
8. Excellent Video
Tova   (02.22.18)
The message is well said. However, the US will not severe ties with Poland. The reason is obvious. The US has immigrants from all nations of the world. If the US severe ties with Poland, then the polish will petition the US to severe ties with Israel. Then another group will as the US to severe ties with another group and so on.

Americans will not appreciate or understand the horrors of war except for those families and soilders who are impacted by war.

Moreover many countries like Poland are doing the same. Germany is the only country that is still haunted by what they have done. Each generation learning the history of what past generations have done to Jews.

Eventually the guilt of each generation to come will be expressed in anger.
Europe is going through an islamic takeover and once again Jews will blamed.

Another battle is the UN. No longer concerned for human rights, demonracy of freedom. The UN is anti-american and anti-israel.

What I do say is that you have taken a stand and spoke out. Do not be silent. Do not make it easy. GOD Bless
9. Question: why should we (Jews) fight for "dialogue"?! Did we
(02.22.18)
start this round? Did WE start it in '68?
Stop grovelling and spit it in their faces, after all: that's exactly what "they" (Poles) are doing to us for no reason at all!
10. Away from appearance
(02.22.18)
Is is possible Jay Ruderman is a fake and
he is really working against Jewish interests.
Irresponsible video and statements coming from
some "Jewish organizations"
are very suspect in my eyes. The Polish government
was hijacked by extremist elements which are far
from majority and every one should keep that in mind.
This new hate campane originating from Europe, is much
more systematic that we thought and it employs
all the elements of a psychological warfare.
11. yes but NO
(02.22.18)
irrelevant
12. Poland with Holocaust video
lazerbenabba ,   London England   (02.22.18)
As Capt Mainwaring of Dads Army tv fame would say referencing the Poles..."They don't like it up'em".
The present fascist/Catholic religious extremist government are happy to denigrate any criticism directed at them but do not like the justified reciprocation.
13. This is only to be expected. Just like recovered alcoholics,
(02.23.18)
Poles will NEVER be rid of their antisemitism.
All one can hope for, is keeping it in check by working hard every day.
14. Remember all those Pollack jokes?
BBB   (02.23.18)
Can't fix stupid and dear Lord, the Poles are stupid.
15. False video
Cleo Finch   (02.23.18)
https://forward.com/news/national/394956/foundation-pulls-video-urging-us-to-sever-ties-to-poland-and-accused-poles/
16. The Tango has begun.....
(02.24.18)
17. We have to remember
trial   (02.24.18)
We must remember that the Jews also cooperated with fascists, for example by the Judenrat in the Getts, wrote about it to the Jewish historian Hannah Arendt in the book Eichmann in Jerusalem

There were also Jewish crimes like Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski Head of Judenrat, Lodz Ghetto

We have to remember everything that was wrong
18. Disguisting Ruderman Foundation video is a Holocaust denial
Zygmunt Staszewski ,   Miami   (02.24.18)
My family grew up in Trzebinia, Poland. There was no anti-Semitism there. Pplish Catholics and Polish Jews lived together, went to the same schools, played in the same footbal teams. When in 1939 Hitler's Germany invaded Poland between 1939 and 1941 90% of the murdered were Polish Catholics.
They were the first prisoners in Auschwitz. My grandparents were killed in Auschwitz by the Germans. My father survived 2 concentration camps and was liberated by the Russians. Over 100,000 Jews were saved by Polish people, even though there was a mandatory death penalty. Those Poles who cooperated with Germans, were sentenced to death as traitors by the Polish Underground. That amounted to about 0.01% of the population. 30,000 Poles were killed by the Germans for trying to save Jews. This video is Holocaust denial - the authors spit on the graves of the heroic Polish people who died trying to save the Jews . The death camps were German, not Polish. They were run by Germans and Germans did the killing, not Poles. Please remove it from your web site immediately, just like the Ruderman Foundation did. On behalf of the Polish-Jewish Dialogue Committee of New York, Zygmunt Staszewski, Co-Chair.
19. Accurate term 'Polish holocaust'
BUILD BABY BUILD !!   (02.24.18)
The Poles remain one of the most ignorant anti semitic nations on earth.
20. # 18 Hmm, don't ignore the obvious
BBB   (02.24.18)
Poles today remain extremely anti semitic and extremely bigoted agains Jews and Israel.
Tell this to the Poles who attempt to white wash their own shameful past by denying their sad historical past and recored reality.
21. # 17 "We have to remember everything that was wrong."
BUILD BABY BUILD !!   (02.24.18)
Never forget
Never again.
Poles, most all of Europe aided the Nazi's in Jewish genocide,
remember?
22. "Stalin's Jews"?
BBB   (02.24.18)
Stalin murdered millions INCLUDING Jews dummy! Your hatred for Jews makes you an ass.
23. This video is over the top so is the new law
Maksim ,   Staten island   (02.25.18)
The video mentions something that doesnt exist to
Justify something thst shouldnt happen. Prople attacking
Jews over video produced by one Jewish organization is stupid
And anti-Semitic. Those people defend nothing but their ignorance
And stupidity. People who put out such videos should also
Think about the message and target audience.
24. OK- "Harry, NYC" you've proven ur anti-Semitic credentials!
Rafi ,   US   (02.26.18)
now return to the sewer of ur choice
25. the truth will set us free.
Vladimir ,   Chicago   (03.08.18)
"Not Enough!"
03/02/18

Ari Avnery

MANY YEARS ago, right after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, I was asked to write a book about the events. Rachel took the photos, I wrote the text. The book, which appeared only in Hebrew, was called "Lenin Does Not Live Here Anymore".

When we visited Warsaw, we were astonished by the many places in the city with metal plates announcing "(Name) was executed by the Germans at this spot". Until then we had no idea that the Polish resistance had opposed the Nazis so fiercely.

After coming home, Rachel happened to enter a clothes shop and hear the female owner talking with a customer in Polish. Still full of her discovery, Rachel asked the owner: "Did you know that the Nazis also killed a million and half non-Jewish Poles?"

The woman answered "Not enough!"

Rachel was amazed. So was I.

We knew, of course, that many Polish Jews did not like the Polish people, but we were not aware of the intensity of this hatred.
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