Anti-Semitic advertising

10th February 2012

It is the second time that anti-Semitic posters have appeared in the company's advertising boards

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An anti-Semitic poster appeared on a billboard in the Warsaw underground this week claiming that the Jedwabne massacre was exaggerated.

According to Gazeta Wyborcza, the printed poster stated that, amongst other things, “the Polish side of the story was ignored”, “the Jewish side never allowed a complete exhumation” and “the Jewish side exaggerated the fatalities from 300 to 1,600”.

At the bottom of the board, it ended with the words “WE HAVE NOTHING TO APOLOGISE FOR”.

However AMS, the company which owns the advertising space, states that it has no knowledge of who was behind the action and that this is in fact the second time that something like this has happened.

“This, once again, has happened without our knowledge. Somebody with anti-Semitic leanings has put up this poster on our space,” says Grazyna Golebiowska, a spokeswoman for the firm.

“Like before, it’s difficult to determine who has done this, but it is burglary of advertising space.”

To this day, Jedwabne is a source of controversy. An investigation in 2004 claims that at least 340 Jews were killed by the town’s Polish inhabitants while the Gestapo looked on, however a number of conflicting views on the massacre are still held.

Readers Comments

It is sad that it took so many polpee so long to grasp this elementary fact, and since a lot more still haven't learned this we are headed into a major conflict created by the lefts refusal to live in the real world rather then their delusional fantasy world.

Maria - KdjtCvMuge
at 2012-02-24 04:06:41

The far-right still pathetically denies any Polish responsibility for Jedwabne. The fact is Jedwabne and similar anti-Jewish violence that took place in multiple locations across Eastern Poland in July 1941 were but a small example of the pervasive anti-Semitism that permeated Polish Catholic society for centuries and peaked in the interwar years. See Joanna Michlic's "Poland's Threatening Other" for a thorough examination of modern Polish anti-Semitism.

Tomasz - Pittsford, NY, USA
at 2012-03-04 01:12:57

Maria

You omit to tell us what the elementary "fact" is and failed to tell us what major conflict is being created by the "lefts" (is that anyone to the left of anti semitic Radio Marija and PiS?) delusions.

The only person seemingly suffering from delusions here would appear to be you. This is a story about anti semitic claims being made on advertising billboards, without the consent or knowledge of the agency that owns them.

I wonder who might be spreading these lies and delusional claims? Could it be a political group with an anti semitic agenda (surely you can grasp that elementary fact) and I wonder who that might be.

Prawo Apologeta-Skrzydło - Elbląg
at 2012-03-04 10:54:03

Are these photographs a figment of the imagination Maria (Maryja?) or can't you read Polish. Translation provided on request.

http://open-krakow.pl/galeria.html

Paweł Radziński - Salwator, Kraków
at 2012-03-06 11:14:37

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