Fascists march in Auschwitz

This 17 November 2017 video from Britain says about itself:

Jayda confirms that Britain First [Donald Trump’s favourite British neonazis] support antisemitism

You’ve probably seen that Paul and Jayda’s chum has been sent to prison in Poland and they have posted this video entitled “VIDEO: Jayda Fransen calls for the release of Polish political prisoner Piotr Rybak!”

Now, Rybak isn’t a “political prisoner”. Rybak is a nasty, bigoted antisemitic fool. I have a feeling that is why Paul and Jayda get on with him so well. He has been sent to prison for 10 months as he burned a Jewish effigy at a far right march in Wroclaw last year.

He did put forward the excuse that he “wanted to burn an effigy of George Soros”, however what he did was burn an effigy of a stereotypical right wing depiction of an Orthodox Jew. He backed up his defence by saying that he “didn’t know what George Soros looked like so didn’t know if the effigy was right”.

You’d have thought that if you were wanting to burn an effigy of someone you didn’t like, that you would actually know who it was that you didn’t like…..and if you didn’t know what they looked like then there’s this little thing called Google which can help.

So, quite rightly, he has been convicted for “incitement to hatred on the basis of nationality, ethnicity or religion”. So, not only willing to go against Muslims in the U.K, it seems that Britain First are now also outing themselves as antisemitic/supporting people in being antisemitic.

⚠️⚠️TRIGGER WARNING⚠️⚠️ Jayda is in full on screech mode here, and has even bought a t shirt with Rybak’s face on it.

By Clara Weiss:

Fascists march in Auschwitz

31 January 2019

On January 27, on the 74th anniversary of the liberation of the death camp of Auschwitz by the Soviet Red Army, between 50 and 100 Polish fascists marched through the doors of the camp, where more than 1 million European Jews were gassed by the Nazis during World War II. The fascists sang the Polish national anthem and shouted anti-Semitic slogans. The leader of the demonstration, Piotr Rybak, infamous for burning an effigy representing a Jew in 2015, stated that “It’s time to fight against Jewry and free Poland from them!”

Such a demonstration of far-right anti-Semitism at the Auschwitz memorial, which is universally seen as a symbol for the horrific crimes perpetrated by fascism, is historically unprecedented. This outrageous event is the outcome of political processes that have been unfolding in Poland and throughout Eastern Europe since the dissolution of the Stalinist regimes and the restoration of capitalism.

This year will mark the 30th anniversary of the dissolution of the Eastern European regimes through their Stalinist bureaucracies in 1989. Shortly thereafter, in December 1991, the Soviet bureaucracy destroyed the Soviet Union and fully restored capitalism in Russia. …

This counter-revolutionary process was hailed and justified by bourgeois ideologists as a “democratic revolution”. The result, workers were told, would be democracy, peace and prosperity for all. The opposite has been the case.

The restoration of capitalism has given rise to obscene levels of social inequality throughout Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and immiserated tens of millions of workers. It has also transformed the region into a center stage for the systematic preparations of imperialism for another world war. Virtually all of these countries are now ruled by rabidly nationalist regimes that are preparing for war, promoting anti-Semitism, and enacting police state measures.

The fascist protesters express what is the official state policy in Poland. In early 2018, the Polish government, led by the far-right Law and Justice Party (PiS), outlawed any mention of crimes perpetrated by Poles against Jews during the Holocaust. Since then, numerous historians working on Polish anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish pogroms have been fired from their jobs.

In November, prominent state officials, including the Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki, who participated in the official Auschwitz commemoration ceremony on January 27, marched alongside fascists from Poland and other European countries on Polish independence day.

The resurgence of fascism in Poland and other Eastern European countries is a particularly sharp expression of what is an international process.

In Germany, the Grand Coalition has deliberately made the neo-fascist Alternative for Germany (AfD) the principal opposition party and has adopted key aspects of its policies and rhetoric. While hundreds of thousands have demonstrated against the far-right over the past year, Jörg Baberowski, the Humboldt University academic, who has publicly stated that “Hitler wasn’t vicious”, is allowed to relativize crimes of Nazism with the backing of the leading political parties and media at the prestigious Humboldt University in Berlin.

In France, president Emmanuel Macron, who has presided over a violent crack-down on the yellow vest movement, recently hailed the fascist dictator Philippe Pétain as a “great soldier.”

In Ukraine, the celebration of Ukrainian fascist leader Stepan Bandera and his movement, which engaged in mass murder of Poles, Jews and Ukrainian civilians during World War II, has become official state policy since the US-backed far-right coup in February 2014.

By Clara Weiss:

Anti-Semitic propaganda distributed at Polish parliament as government witch-hunts Holocaust historians

16 March 2019

On Wednesday, an edition of the right-wing newspaper Tylko Polska with a front page article on “How to spot a Jew” was distributed at the Polish Sejm (parliament). In the manner of Nazi-style anti-Semitic propaganda, the article listed “names, anthropological features, expressions, appearances, character traits, methods of operation” and “disinformation activities” which allegedly allowed for identification of Jewish people.

“Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away,” on view at New York City’s Museum of Jewish Heritage through January 3, 2020, is the broadest and most inclusive exhibition ever presented in North America on the complex of concentration and extermination camps in Nazi-occupied Poland in which 1.1 million human beings were murdered by the Nazis between 1940 and 1945, part of the Holocaust that claimed the lives of 6 million Jews: here.