Can you call a man convicted of burning an effigy of a Jew an antisemite?
That's the question that may be put to a court in Poland after Piotr Rybak, who was sententenced to prison for burning an effigy of a haredi Orthodox Jew in Wroclaw in 2015, said he is considering suing Jewish leaders who he says publicly labelled him "a fascist, antisemite and stinking nationalist".
Rybak was originally sentenced to ten months for his role in demonstrations that broke out in Wroclaw in November 2015, shortly after the terrorist attacks in Paris.
Though the demonstrations were supposedly to protest Muslim refugees' arrival in Poland, they ended with the burning of a figure wearing a black hat, beard, side curls and black clothing; clearly intended to be an Orthodox Jew.
