Warsaw, Poland – More than 700 people in Poland, including a former prime minister and foreign minister, signed an open letter condemning statements about Jews by a right-wing Roman Catholic priest who runs a controversial radio station.
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A magazine had reported that Rev. Tadeusz Rydzyk, during a lecture at a journalism school, described Jews as greedy and criticized President Lech Kaczynski for donating land in Warsaw for a Jewish museum.
Hundreds of people — including former Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki and former Auschwitz inmate and Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski — signed the letter, saying Rydzyk’s comments “revealed his contempt” for Jews and fellow Christians.
“As Polish Catholics, laymen and clergy, we express our moral protest against the worsening statements of the director of Radio Maryja,” the letter says. “It hurts us that the contemptible and anti-Semitic statements come from a representative of our church.”
I take extreme exception to the term “Right Wing” as contained in this article. There is nothing right wing in this priest as he has been a socialist sympathizer. Socialism is left wing period! I’m the son of Holocaust survivors and my parents clearly taught me how the left spins the tail onto the right. The Nazis were Socialists as were the Communists, Facists as well as the Islamic Baathists. Each form of Socialism contains anti Jewish sentiments. I would appreciate a correction.
Ralph Rubinek, 2G
At least, now, in Poland, some people are speaking up about [semi]
official anti-Semitic sentiments.
A priest? In Poland? Anti-Semitic?
DUH!