A new poll that was presented to the Polish parliament shows that antisemitism
is higher among Polish teenagers due to the lack of enforcing laws that ban
hate speech and other hate expressions.
Some participants in the poll, conducted by Warsaw University Center for
Research on Prejudice, accept some openly antisemitic statements, such as “Jews
must realize that they themselves made the Poles hate them because of their
treason and crimes.”
Some even think that such hate speech shouldn’t be banned, the poll
found. 21% of the 653 respondent from ages 16-18, and 19% of adults that
responded agreed that this type of hate shouldn’t be banned. 14% from all
respondents said racist language is common in Poland, Donald Snyder wrote on
Fox News.
“What is most important for me
is that so many young people accept hate speech,” the Center’s director,
Michael Bilewicz told Fox News. “In fact, more than adults. And the young are
the future of Poland.”
But others disagree with his assumption, Sigmund Rolat, an 85-year-old
Holocaust survivor, said that Jews are safer in Poland than in Western Europe.
“I am dismissing this study because it is overemphasizing the danger from
crackpots,” he said.
