Attack on Hanukkah Menorah in Parliament

Confederation MP Grzegorz Braun extinguished Hanukkah candles in the Polish Sejm, declaring that “Talmudic cults” had no place in parliament. The act drew condemnation from across the political spectrum as an unprecedented display of antisemitism in government.

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