In 2018, Poland and Poles were affected by the hate campaign initiated by the then Israeli ambassador to Poland, Anna Azari, who attacked the amendment to the Act on the Institute of National Remembrance during the celebration of the liberation of the Auschwitz camp.
As part of this campaign, there were accusations of "complicity" of Poles in the Holocaust, disgusting short video clips with the slogan "Polish Holocaust", which were to associate Poland and Poles with the German genocide, or graphics with the swastika inscribed in the Polish flag. As part of the campaign, there were repeated fake news about the alleged "ban" of the Holocaust debate, while the amendment to the law only forbade lies about the alleged complicity of Poland and Poles, and even allowed lies as part of scientific and artistic activities.
As Mr Krysztopa says:
- I turned the hate tool against the haters. I drew a Polish victim being aimed at by two torturers, one Nazi with a swastika and the other Bolshevik with a red star. The star, however, had not five but six arms. I obviously referred in this drawing both to the over-representation of people of Jewish origin in the security of Soviet Russia, the same one that carried out the Polish Operation before the criminal war, and to the over-representation of people of Jewish origin in the secret police of the Polish People's Republic, which dealt with the murder of the Cursed Soldiers.
It was not my goal to blame the entire Jewish nation for this, but to show the haters attacking Poland a mirror so that they could see what they looked like using their own method of blaming the Polish nation with the crimes of blackmailers, whom the Polish underground state punished with death.
Interestingly, after this drawing, the term "Polish Holocaust" ceased to be used by haters, and the hate campaign seemed to weaken. Maybe it has something to do with it, maybe it doesn't.
Dr. Michał Bilewicz, the creator of the concept of "secondary anti-Semitism", which is to consist, inter alia, in the reluctance to spend money on the POLIN Museum, or the "cult of the Cursed Soldiers" called the drawing an "anti-Semitic vomit" and Cezary Krysztopa "a notorious anti-Semite", and sued him.
In the District Court in Warsaw, al. Solidarności 127 at 10.30 in room 123, the first hearing was held in the case of protection of personal rights of the editor-in-chief of the Tysol.pl portal and the deputy editor-in-chief of "Tygodnik Solidarność" Cezary Krysztopa against Dr. hab. Michał Bilewicz.
Cezary Krysztopa argued that he has the right to criticize the historical policy of Jewish communities, as in the case of other nationalities, and that his right to comment on current events also includes the right to comment on Polish-Jewish relations, especially that in 2018 they remained at a high level emotions. Dr. Michał Bilewicz, in turn, argued that as a researcher of bias mechanisms he had the right to define Cezary Krysztopa as "notorious antisemite", although he translates the word "notorious" as "known" in this case "from anti-Semitism". He failed to prove, however, that he did so from anything but this one drawing.
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