Polish Paper Proudly Publishing Hateful Antisemitic Slanders

"To publish something like this in a Canadian newspaper, whether it's in English or non-English, is criminal. It's absolutely criminal to pursue this form of hatred."     "We feel very strongly that this is a case where charges should be laid ... "         "We know that hate speech provisions of the Criminal Code are not often used, but this does cross the threshold."                                                                                  Michael Mostyn, CEO, B'nai B'rith Canada

"The ongoing global pandemic has spurred a fast-spreading epidemic of hate speech and disinformation including conspiracy theories with a clear antisemitic motive."                                                                                                               "Data from the World Jewish Congress shows that in the first months of the pandemic, there was a 30 percent increase in antisemitic content on social media." UN agency UNESCO webinar

The front of the March 25 edition of Glos Polski, with the story headlined “Coronavirus, or fake pandemic.” Glos Polski

Blatantly outrageous racist conspiracy theories were published twice -- the first time in March, then again in April -- in a Polish-Canadian newspaper with firm links to a Polish community group. The tirade claimed that COVID-19 was created by "organized Jewry", and for those who weren't aware of the threat that the Jewish presence imposes on the world community, the emphasis was placed on the 'fact' that Jews are the cause of all that goes wrong in the world. Somewhat similar to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in intent.

The very same kind of racist propaganda favoured by Nazi Germany that was meant to influence how Jews were viewed by those who read it. To pave the way to complicit genocide. That this kind of hateful message remains current and is unpacked in Canada through the auspices of an ethnic community group in whose country of origin many of the most horrific excesses of the Holocaust took place is quite simply mind-numbing. 

 Turning gullible minds toward the acidic venom of attributing base motivations to another ethnic group is the lowest form of deliberately hateful incivility.

When the publication of the accusations came to the attention of the Jewish human-rights group B'nai B'rith it immediately called attention to the newspaper, alerting police to a public hate crime in violation of the law. In the March 25 edition of Glos Polski which is published in Toronto claiming a readership by Poles "around the globe", the headline read "Coronavirus or fake pandemic". The story was repeated in the weekly publication in a late April edition, with no identifying byline.

"Biological weapons are being worked on in the U.S. and Israel not by just any experts, but (under) the leadership of usually Jewish psychopaths", the story reads, in discussing the origins of COVID-19, suggesting "organized Jewry" can "laugh their heads off" at the COVID-19 crisis to which Jewish social media had used "Goebbelsian propaganda" to manipulate the world with. 

What malignant, base irony when poisonous slander with Goebbels-similarities defames Jews by charging Jewish infamy.

It goes on to claim that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant was manipulated by Jews, created to attack Gentiles and it is Israel that remains "the cause of all the world's woes", striving in the creation of an Judeo-Polonia state in Poland. Trotting out the tired old tropes of Jews controlling the stock markets of the world. And incredible as it may seem to any half-wit susceptible to Jew-hatred but still capable of distinguishing between fact and fiction, the claim that Vladimir Lenin, Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan were all closet Jews.

No comment could be elicited from the editor of the newspaper, Wieslaw Magiera. And on the polish-canadians.ca website a promotional page describes the rag as a "paper which searches for the Truth, protects the good name of Poles and reminds us of the Polish culture and history". Indeed, yesss! 

According to the same page, Glos Polski is "edited by" (approved by?) the Polish National Union of Canada, verified on its website by the Union describing the paper as its "press body", inextricably linked since the launch in 1951 of the newspaper.

The Polish National Union of Canada mission statement is faultless in its clarity: "A cultural and service organization, a member of the Canadian Polish Congress, whose aim is to promote Polish culture, language, traditions and knowledge of Polish history to the Polish community..." Nowhere does it state to the uninitiated eye that it also promotes anti-Semitism through its printed and online links, its "press body".

It does claim to be one of Canada's largest Polish organizations, however, its role to counter Communist agitation. Presumably while it agitates to promote anti-Semitism. Canada, needless to say, is a vast community of immigrants brought together to share a life in a country dedicated to equality and security for all its residents. Public funding goes out routinely to various ethnic groups through a spirit of formal and institutionalized multiculturalism. To the Union has gone out hundreds of thousands from provincial coffers. An award for good citizenship.

The same page says Glos Polski is “edited by” the Polish National Union of Canada. On its website, the Union itself describes the paper as its “press body” and says the two have been inextricably linked since Glos Polski’s launch in 1951.