Outrageous ruling!
Amazingly similar to Sweden’s former Chancellor of Justice, Göran Lambertz’s ruling that tapes being offered at the Central Mosque in Stockholm debasing Jews and advocating for their murder, was not antisemitism:
“these statements should be differently judged and considered to be allowed/legitimate, because they are used by one party in an ongoing deep conflict where battle cries and defamation are contained as everyday elements in the rhetoric around the conflict”.
Also, this latest outrage in Poland (main post) takes place only a few weeks after a judge in Winnepeg Canada ruled that a student who shouted ‘burn the Jew’ and lit a fellow student’s hair he was harassing, as not being antisemitic. These outrageous incidents and rulings are becoming all too regular.
Nevertheless, prosecutor Monika Rutkowsk ruled the chants did not constitute a criminal offense, claiming that the slurs targeted opposing players and not Jews specifically, adding they came in a sports event rather than a social or political discussion, reports
Poland: ‘Jews to Gas Chambers’ Not Racist
By Ari Yashar
A Polish municipal prosecutor trying a case in which Polish League soccer fans shouted anti-Semitic chants, saying they’d send Jews to Auschwitz gas chambers, decided on Wednesday that the calls were not criminally racist.
The chants, which included such memorable lines as “move on Jews,” “your home is at Auschwitz,” and “send you to the gas (chamber),” were made by Lech Poznan fans during a game last September against Widzew Lodz. Furthermore, the fans reportedly waved flags with Nazi symbols.
Widzew Lodz is considered to have ties with Jews, even from the days of the Holocaust, when a large number of Jews were involved with the team. Poland had the largest Jewish community in Europe before the Holocaust, when roughly 90% of the country’s over 3 million Jews were murdered.
Nevertheless, prosecutor Monika Rutkowsk ruled the chants did not constitute a criminal offense, claiming that the slurs targeted opposing players and not Jews specifically, adding they came in a sports event rather than a social or political discussion, reports International Business Times.
“The calls were not directed at a specific group of fans and not at Jews in particular,” opined Rutkowsk.
The ruling brings to mind a Canadian judge who recently ruled that a high school student who lit a Jewish girl’s hair on fire saying “let’s burn the Jew” did not commit a hate crime.
