| As a participant of the March of the Living in 1998, and the 60th anniversary of the Lodz Ghetto liquidation, I can only add that the rudeness by the Israeli security did not occur on my trip in 1998. On the contrary, I was a witness to more antisemitic incidents perpetrated by Poles, involving more than `rudeness` (throwing of bottles, shouts of `heil hitler`, swastikas and stars of david graffitti, remains of a recent synagogue bombing, the marketing of stereotypical Jewish doll figures) in the week that I was in Poland than in my entire lifetime living in Canada. I think the mentality behind these disgusting yet shamelessly perpetrated acts which I saw with my own eyes, may have come into play during one of these incidents. |
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