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| Right-wing activist Chwenka threatened to blow up the Polish Sejm over Hanukkah candles |
| 2023-12-15 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Polish right-wing activist, former candidate for senator Jacek Chwenka threatened with an explosion in the Polish Sejm if candles in the Hanukkah menorah were lit there again. He announced this on the social network X (formerly Twitter). The activist commented on the news that the extinguished candles will be lit at 16:00 (18:00 Moscow time) on December 14. “At 16:01 a bomb will explode in the Sejm office. The Hanukkah menorah will fly into the air along with those who light it,” wrote Chvenka. As reported IA Regnum, the menorah in the Polish Sejm on the occasion of the Jewish holiday Hanukkah was installed opposite the Christmas tree. On December 12, a member of the Polish Sejm from the coalition of nationalists and Eurosceptics “Confederation of Freedom and Independence” Grzegorz Braun took a fire extinguisher and extinguished the candles . Speaker of the Sejm Szymon Holownia On December 13, he said that because of Brown’s act he might lose his post. Kholownya also demanded that the coalition expel the deputy who put out the candles. Krzysztof Bosak Vice Speaker of Parliament from the Confederation As it became known on December 14, Brown was suspended from work in the Sejm and issued a large fine. In addition, the deputy was deprived of benefits for six months. At the same time, in Poland announced a fundraiser for him. Polish parliament holds 2nd Hanukkah candle lighting ceremony, this time without a hitch [IsraelTimes] A second Hanukkah candle lighting ceremony is held in the Polish parliament, after a far-right member of parliament used a fire extinguisher to put out candles lit in the same ceremony two days ago, drawing widespread condemnation in the country. Speaker of the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament, Szymon Holownia, together with the Speaker of the Senate Malgorzata Kidawa Blonska and Polish President Polish Andrzej Duda are all in attendance at Thursday night’s lighting. Polish Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich says some two dozen politicians from the Senate and Sejm were also in attendance, along with Israel’s Ambassador to Poland Yakov Livne, around 100 members of the Jewish community, Rabbi Shalom Ber Stambler, Director of Chabad of Poland, and Schudrich himself. Before today’s candle lighting ceremony, Holownia read out in parliament a letter written by Stambler and Schudrich to him regarding Tuesday’s incident in which the candles were extinguished by MP Grzegorz Braun of the Confederation party. The two rabbis expressed their thanks to the speaker for condemning the incident and sanctioning Braun, and called on him to hold a second ceremony in order to "persevere" in the fight against "evil and hatred" in the country. "By standing together tonight with the leadership of Poland and the Jewish community of Poland we show the real face of Poland," says Schudrich at today’s candle lighting. "Together we stand for cooperation and understanding and against antisemitism and hatred of any kind. Two days ago, someone extinguished our candles. What did we do? We immediately relit the candles. This is the story of Jewish as well as Polish history. Many have tried to extinguish us but we will always relight the lights." Related: Sejm: 2023-12-14 The new government of Poland: the return of Sikorsky and the doctor - minister of defense Sejm: 2023-11-22 'De-Russification will be followed by LGBTization.' Latvia legalizes gay marriage Sejm: 2023-11-10 For Polish politicians, the Volyn massacre is just a reason not to let Ukraine into the EU |
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