A Jewish group expressed ‘disgust and outrage’ at the video, which also featured children participating
WARSAW, Poland — The World Jewish Congress has expressed its “disgust and outrage” following reports that an effigy made to look like a stereotypical Jew was hanged and burned in a Polish town as part of an Easter ritual.As Jews celebrate Passover, #antisemitic residents of the town of Pruchnik in southern #Poland beat and burned a doll made to represent a Jew with stereotypical features. pic.twitter.
Residents, among them children, beat and burned the effigy in the southeastern town of Pruchnik on Good Friday. The figure represented Judas, the disciple of Christ who betrayed him according to the New Testament. Ambassador Georgette Mosbacher also wished Poles a happy Easter on Sunday. By then, Mosbacher had been accused of offending Poland with her Passover tweet and reminded she is serving in a predominantly Roman Catholic country.
Some came to Mosbacher’s defence, recalling that Poland also has a small Jewish population. Poland was home to Europe’s largest Jewish population before the Holocaust.
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