First published at 22:43 UTC on April 22nd, 2019.
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Poland is very Catholic. Not for the squeamish or easily offended. The video is not being widely published and this link has only a few views. I modified the title from #Jewish to #J…
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Copied from WoMen Fight AntiSemitism https://youtu.be/wjmvIL4jAdo
Poland is very Catholic. Not for the squeamish or easily offended. The video is not being widely published and this link has only a few views. I modified the title from #Jewish to #Judas.
Residents, among them children, beat and burned the effigy in the southeastern town of Pruchnik on Good Friday. The figure represented Judas, the disciple of Christ who betrayed him according to the New Testament.
In the Pruchnik ritual - part of Roman Catholic Easter celebrations - children crowded round the effigy beating it with sticks, as adults dragged it through the streets. The mock Judas had a big red nose, black hat and Orthodox-style ringlets.
In the past the Catholic Church in Poland had banned such practices.
Robert Singer, CEO of the New York-based group, said in a statement that “Jews are deeply disturbed by this ghastly revival of medieval anti-Semitism that led to unimaginable violence and suffering.”
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