Anti-Semitism is still raging in Poland despite government efforts to check it, it is revealed in the Warsaw Jewish newspaper Folkshtimme received here today. The paper advises individual Jews in Poland to get in touch with members of the Polish Parliament and bring to their attention all instances of anti-Jewish discrimination.
Pointing out that the delegates elected to the new Parliament have all pledged themselves “to fight against anti-Semitism and against persecution of national minorities in the country,” the Jewish newspaper advises the central representative body of the Jews in Poland to remind the deputies of their pledge.
“We are glad to establish that during the last few weeks the authorities have energetically started to combat anti-Semitic hooliganism,” the paper writes. “However, this does not solve the painful problem. We are still witnessing continued discrimination in employing Jewish workers in certain sections of the country.
“We are also witnessing,” the paper continues, “the fact that a number of government and communal institutions prefer not to notice that certain anti-Semitic elements are attempting to pressure Jews to leave the country, in order that they should be able to take over their houses. Under such circumstances we must urgently demand of the new Parliament and the newly elected deputies fulfillment of promises given to the Jewish voter to provide complete security for the Jews in Poland.”
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