Poles favor anti-Semitic regulations
by ROME (JTA) -- Three-fourths of Polish citizens support punishment for anti-Semitic activities, according to a recent poll in the, Thirty-four percent of respondents said that people who wrote anti-Semitic graffiti should be punished by law, and 53 percent sa
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For people who distribute anti-Semitic publications, 23 percent supported legal punishment, 52 percent supported denouncement and 16 percent said there should be no sanctions.
Stanislaw Krajewski, a leader of the Warsaw Jewish community, said the responses are "relatively optimistic," as more than three-fourths of Poles disapprove of anti-Semitic expression. Younger respondents, he said, were more likely to disapprove of anti-Semitic behavior.
"The positive change is clear and rightly attributed to the recent activities of Pope John Paul II," Krajewski said.
The pope apologized for Catholic anti-Semitism before he visited Israel in March.
Krajewski noted, however, that several marginal candidates in Poland's presidential campaign were using "the Jewish threat" as an element of their campaign.
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