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Poll reveals anti-Semitism in Poland, renews debate over hate-speech laws
THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP!More than half of Polish youth visit anti-Semitic websites that glorify Hitler and the Nazi era, according to a new poll that has renewed debate about laws governing hate speech and stoked the concerns of Poland’s dwindling Jewish population.
The data, gathered by the Warsaw University Center for Research on Prejudice, was presented to the Polish parliament on Nov. 5. Some participants in the poll embraced such blatantly anti-Semitic statements as “Jews must realize that they themselves made the Poles hate them because of their treason and crimes.”
Twenty-one percent of the youth polled and 19 percent of adults said such hate speech should not be banned, while 14 percent of all those polled said racist language was common in Poland.
The Center’s director Michal Bilewicz, a co-author of the report and assistant professor at Warsaw University, said there were 653 respondents to the poll aged 16 to 18 as well as 1,007 adults.
MORE: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/11/12/poll-reveals-anti-semitism-in-poland-renews-debate-over-hate-speech-laws/