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| Polish police probe ‘Jews to the gas’ sign at building occupied by anti-Israel students |
| 2024-10-21 |
| [IsraelTimes] Polish police are investigating antisemitic signs that were spotted among banners that pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel students hung outside a Krakow university building that they have occupied for over six months, local media reported Thursday. The Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper said the signs, including one reading “Jews to the gas,” were spotted Monday morning on a wall outside the Collegium Broscianum, which houses the sociology and philosophy departments of the Jagiellonian University, Poland’s oldest university, which has a long history of antisemitism. A university spokesman apologized for the incident, saying the institution swiftly removed the signs and alerted the local police, who confirmed investigating the “incitement to hatred on national grounds.” Academy for Palestine, the student group occupying the building, denied putting up the signs, calling them a “provocation,” the news outlet reported. Citing a police spokesperson, Dziennik Polski reported that the anti-Israel encampment at the university’s Collegium Broscanium had cleared the premises on Tuesday per an agreement reached with university authorities on September 30. In return, the university said it will try to avoid cooperating with research that could be used to develop Israel’s military, and will assess further cooperation with Israeli academia. |
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