One of the most vicious manifestations of incitement against the Jews of Poland in recent years came to light today when the Jewish parliamentary club called on the ministry for religious affairs to take action against a Polish priest in the village of Rafalovka who, in a public lecture, called on his audience in the name of Christianity and Polish patriotism to rid the country of all Jews.
Lecturing on “Christian Civilization and Bolshevism,” the priest declared that Jews and Bolsheviks are synonymous and the Jews “who killed Jesue” are now also contemplating the destruction of all Christians. The priest, who recently returned from an illegal visit to Russia, told his audience that he had personally observed that all Soviet commissars are Jews.
He then urged his audience in the name of Christianity and Polish patriotism to rid Poland of all Jews because “they are all bitter enemies of Poland.” Panic-stricken at the priest’s inflammatory address which might easily cause a pogrom, the Jewish community of Rafalovka, which is in the Volyn district, appealed to the Jewish parliamentary club for intervention with the higher authorities against such open pogrom lectures.
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