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ADL urges Polish Catholics to decry anti-Semitic Krakow meet
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Krakow 

The Anti-Defamation League on Thursday urged the Polish Catholic Church to censure "in the strongest terms" an anti-Semitic meeting reportedly held in a Krakow church earlier this week. The ADL also called on the Church to make efforts to turn its congregations "off-limits to hate."

About 1,000 people gathered for special services Sunday at the Sacred Heart of Jesus church, organized by the Committee Against Defamation of the Church and For Polishness, along with the anti-Semitic Radio Maryja.

Local residents were informed of the service by posters that proclaimed: "The kikes will not continue to spit on us."
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The meeting was rife with overtones of hatred. "The Jews are attacking us! We need to defend ourselves," shouted one professor to stormy applause.

ADL Director Abraham H. Foxman. a Holocaust survivor who was born in Poland said: "We were deeply disturbed by reports that an anti-Semitic meeting was held in a Krakow church."

"Such sentiments are a troubling reminder that anti-Semitism is alive and well in Poland, and that the memory and lessons of the Holocaust, while still fresh for survivors of the war, is fading for ordinary Poles," he added.

The ADL has sent a letter to the archbishop of Krakow, Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, calling on him to unite Polish bishops and speak out against the incident.

"One of the great lessons the world learned from Pope John Paul II is that ignorance and bias are never remedied unless all of us are willing to challenge them at every turn," wrote Foxman in the letter.

"We ask Your Eminence and the Polish Bishops Conference to publicly denounce these words and this group in the strongest terms, and to take steps to ensure such gatherings never again take place in the holy space of a church."


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