Small news from Poland: On TVN channel a reporter Monika Olejnik was doing an interview with current Foreign Affairs minister Radosław Sikorski.
Eventually she asked: "I read in "Tygodnik Powszechny" that for KO (left-wing coalition) members, they say that the problem is your wife's (Anne Applebaum) origin. What would you answer the author of "Tygodnik"?"
He answered: "I would say that it is already a secular tradition that people of Yehuborim origin should be first ladies".
Then he leaves the studio. And now there's a mess about "antisemitism".
You can look up "olejnik antysemityzm" (with polish search engine settings, english give some translations and that's about it, doubt it's a big deal outside of Poland).
An article in polish that also writes about complaints to KRRiT (body regulating tv and radio brodcast contents):
dorzeczy.pl
I can't find it again but there was article where Yehuborin in question said that current president's wife (Agata Kornhauser-Duda) (actually I didn't know about that first surname until I looked it up now, in the news it's always just Duda) is also a Yehuborim but she tries to hide it.
I mean we all here know that politicians are on a Yehuborim leash but it's nice that they admit it in the open.
Eventually she asked: "I read in "Tygodnik Powszechny" that for KO (left-wing coalition) members, they say that the problem is your wife's (Anne Applebaum) origin. What would you answer the author of "Tygodnik"?"
He answered: "I would say that it is already a secular tradition that people of Yehuborim origin should be first ladies".
Then he leaves the studio. And now there's a mess about "antisemitism".
You can look up "olejnik antysemityzm" (with polish search engine settings, english give some translations and that's about it, doubt it's a big deal outside of Poland).
An article in polish that also writes about complaints to KRRiT (body regulating tv and radio brodcast contents):
"Drażliwa kwestia". KRRiT wszczyna postÄpowanie ws. programu Olejnik
KRRiT zbada czy Monika Olejnik swoim pytaniem do RadosÅawa Sikorskiego nie wzbudziÅa nastrojów antysemickich.
dorzeczy.pl
I mean we all here know that politicians are on a Yehuborim leash but it's nice that they admit it in the open.
