The Polish Parliament has said it will ask for the removal of a far-right newspaper from sale at its news kiosks on its premises, after the paper ran a front page article on “how to recognise a Jew.”
Tylko Polska – “Only Poland” – listed categories supposedly to help its readers recognise Jews and “defeat them”, including “Names”, “anthropological features”, “expressions”, “appearances”, “character traits”, “disinformation activities” and “methods of operation.”
W #Sejm'ie @KancelariaSejmu sprzedawana jest gazeta "Tylko Polska", w której można znaleźć instrukcję..."jak rozpoznać Żyda po nazwisku, cechach itd."
— Szymon Komorowski (@szykom89) March 13, 2019
Co mówiła @BeataSzydlo i politycy #PiS? "PL jest krajem wolnym od antysemityzmu"? "Nie ma zgody na rasizm i nacjonalizm"?
Aha. pic.twitter.com/crfD1pRqsP
At a press conference at the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament, Michał Kamiński, a conservative politician, showed a copy of the paper, which he said was available for purchase within the Sejm itself.
“We appeal to the Speaker of the Sejm, Marek Kuchciński, to explain how it is possible that this type of paper is propagated in the Polish parliament”, he said, in a speech reported by the Polsatnews website.
“It cannot go on - I consider it an absolute scandal that in the Sejm… filthy publications with messages similar to Nazi newspapers are being sold.”
In response, the director of the Sejm Information Center, Andrzej Grzegrzółka, said that the publication of the article itself was a question for law enforcement agencies, rather than the Chancellery of the Sejm. However, he also said the lower parliament would request that the company which operates the news kiosks inside the Parliamentary building stop selling the paper, and that “the list of titles provided in Parliament will be checked.”