Behind Poland’s European mask: Antisemitism, islamophobia and the war on migrants

Behind Poland’s European mask: Antisemitism, islamophobia and the war on migrants

Poland’s political discourse in recent years reveals a dangerous trend. A country that portrays itself as a defender of Europe is increasingly reproducing within its own borders the politics of exclusion, division and the search for an “internal enemy”. In this logic, Jews, Muslims, migrants, refugees and even Ukrainians — whom Warsaw until recently presented as a “brotherly people” — become objects of suspicion, irritation or political exploita…