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| Poland's chief rabbi attacked in central Warsaw |
| 2006-05-29 |
| KRAKOW: Poland's chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, was punched and sprayed with what appeared to be pepper spray by an unidentified man in downtown Warsaw, but escaped without injuries from what police said may have been an anti-Semitic attack. Schudrich said he was heading to a Sabbath lunch Saturday near Warsaw's main synagogue with a group of people when a young man yelled out Poland for Poles! That's a well-known pre-World War II slogan which basically means 'Jews, get out of Poland,' and I didn't like hearing it, so I approached the gentleman to ask him why he said such things and his reaction was to punch me in the chest, Schudrich told reporters. I was going to hit him back, but before I had a chance to hit him he sprayed me with some kind of spray %u2013 maybe pepper spray. Schudrich said his eyes still burned from the spray but that he was otherwise uninjured. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Thanks, Frank. |
| Posted by: Rafael 2006-05-29 23:01 |
| #3 welcome back Raphael |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-05-29 22:18 |
| #2 Somewhat related to this, Polish authorities have asked their US counterparts to shutdown a US-based website (redwatch.info) that publishes personal details of "targets" living in Poland. They publish details such as addresses, pictures etc. The website operates under the guise of keeping track of communists (and other "undesirables"), but since communism is seen as a Jewish invention...well, you get the picture. They have branches in the U.K. and Germany. My guess is that this sort of thing is protected speech in the U.S. It wouldn't be tolerated in Poland, at least not by the cops. |
| Posted by: Rafael 2006-05-29 20:32 |
| #1 Dog-bites-man story. Unfortunately. :-( |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-05-29 15:43 |