{"id":3770,"date":"2020-02-28T01:26:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T06:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=3770"},"modified":"2020-02-28T01:45:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T06:45:48","slug":"dont-kid-yourself-the-free-world-doesnt-enjoy-much-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=3770","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Kid Yourself, the &#8220;Free World&#8221; Doesn&#8217;t Enjoy Much Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\nFormer Polish Priest Indicted for Hate Speech and Holocaust Denialby Katarzyna Markusz,&nbsp;Jewish Telegraphic Agency \u2013 February 19, 2020<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/quick-reads\/former-polish-priest-indicted-for-hate-speech-and-holocaust-denial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.jta.org\/quick-reads\/former-polish-priest-indicted-for-hate-speech-and-holocaust-denial<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WARSAW, Poland (<a>JTA<\/a>) \u2014 A former priest involved in Poland\u2019s nationalist movement has been indicted on hate speech and Holocaust denial charges.&nbsp;The District Prosecutor\u2019s Office in the city of Wroc\u0142aw, in western Poland, brought three&nbsp;<a>indictments<\/a>&nbsp;against Jacek Miedlar. Another claims that he insulted the late prime minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki.&nbsp;Miedlar, who pleaded not guilty, could face up to three years in prison if convicted on the charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDear ladies and gentlemen, that synagogues can stand here on our Polish soil in Wroclaw, and that Dutkiewicz [mayor of Wroclaw] and Jews can get drunk in them with Talmudic hatred, this is only the result of our tolerance,\u201d Miedlar said at a nationalist march in Wroclaw on Nov. 11, 2017. The prosecutor\u2019s office said the speech incited hatred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About 3,000 people clapped and chanted slogans such as \u201cGreat Independent Poland\u201d in response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prosecution also highlighted other statements inciting hatred against Jews and Holocaust denial from 2018.That year, on Dec. 13 in Wroclaw, Miedlar publicly set fire to the portrait of Mazowiecki, calling him a \u201ccommunist scab\u201d who \u201cnever concealed his Jewish-communist Bolshevik inclinations.\u201d Mazowiecki\u2019s son filed a complaint to the prosecutor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mazowiecki, who died in 2013, was an anti-communist activist and the first Polish prime minister after the fall of communism. Although he was a Catholic, with no Jewish roots, his political opponents often accused him of Jewish descent to discourage people from voting for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Polish Priest Indicted for Hate Speech and Holocaust Denialby Katarzyna Markusz,&nbsp;Jewish Telegraphic Agency \u2013 February 19, 2020https:\/\/www.jta.org\/quick-reads\/former-polish-priest-indicted-for-hate-speech-and-holocaust-denial WARSAW, Poland (JTA) \u2014 A former priest involved in Poland\u2019s nationalist movement has been indicted on hate speech and Holocaust denial charges.&nbsp;The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=3770\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3771,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions\/3771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}