The context of Poland’s “Solidarity” movement was not just solidarity between the working classes, who had engaged in a failed 1970 uprising, and intellectual dissidents, who had been suppressed in 1968–it was also between Catholics and Jews… \1
…The Jews who had remained after the Holocaust was the target of a vicious Jew-baiting campaign by an insurgent wing of the Communist Party in 1968. It provoked the exodus of most remaining Jews (including Roman Polanski).
As often with antisemitic campaigns, there were collateral targets… \2
…besides the immediate victims. “Jew” became an elastic epithet for intellectual, dissident, or Western, while a word like “cosmopolitan” could serve as code for “Jew”.
Jews were prominent in Solidarity—for example, Adam Michnik, the editor of Poland’s most prestigious daily, Gazeta Wyborcza. \3
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As often with antisemitic campaigns, there were collateral targets… \2
Jews were prominent in Solidarity—for example, Adam Michnik, the editor of Poland’s most prestigious daily, Gazeta Wyborcza. \3
Smokescreen goal(s): go after antisemitic protesters
True intent: go after liberal institutions that foster free thinkers
Rights violation(s): freedom of speech and no due process for non-citizens
Make America Gaslight Again...I think not.