An antisemitic incident occurred at the airport in Krakow, Poland, on Monday night when a man wearing an airport employee badge attacked a group of chassidim who were waiting for their flight to Israel.
The chassidim had gathered on the side of the room to daven before boarding the flight, which apparently threw the employee into a rage. He began screaming at the group, his whole body shaking in anger, and even pushing one of them, screaming, “Not here, not here; this is Poland, not Israel. Go back to Israel. This is my country! Why did you come to Poland?”
Later, police arrived at the scene and removed the employee.
One of the passengers was quoted on Channel 14 as saying, “We davened on the side, without disturbing anyone, and we were almost done. Suddenly he came and started screaming at us not to daven. I tried to tell him that we were finishing, and he again started shouting and going nuts. We thought maybe he was a police officer or a local worker who could bring the police, and no one wanted to get into trouble before the flight.”
“He also was pushing a bochur, as seen in the video. In the end the police arrived, removed him and took his details, and we hurried to our flight to Israel.”
One of the members of the group was Rabbi Simcha Krakowski, the head of the Beit Hatavshil soup kitchen in Bnei Brak.
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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Had to have ,or had a relative from Poland before the war to really understand just what polacks truly are
Stick to Boro park why go to Europe
The question goes unanswered why are we going back and spending money in places that is soaked with jewish blood. Just stop!
Hate these pieces of garbage anti semites…I have a visceral reaction to seeing this. May it be soon when they and others pay for everything they have done.
Poland’s legacy:Maidanik,Auschwitz Treblinka.
Israel’s legacy:אור לגוים,תורה מסיני,known for medical and technological breakthroughs,etc.
Let him keep his country and hope Putin doesn’t take it over.
I thought we are supposed to “go back to Poland”?
Btw, this guy would say the same thing about Muslims praying in the airport, too.
Poland doesn’t even allow Muslims in.
He’s definitely NOT a nazi.
Click bait
Ein Kol Chodosh Tachas Ha-shemesh, the poles have been virulent anti-semites for generations this piece of trash’s grandparents probably helped the nazis
@BZG,
Maybe you’re not aware, but the or lagoyim is not a Jewish idea at all, you won’t find it anywhere in our Sefarim. It originates in christian scriptures.
ayid – We go there to daven by the kevarim of the many Tzadikkim buried there. Right there in Krakow are the Ramah, Bach, Megaleh Amukos, Tosfos Yom Tov (next to Yossel the Holy Miser), Maor VeShamesh, Rav Shimon Sofer, and Sarah Shenirer. It is also the gateway to the Galicia region – Rebbe Elimelech, Rebbe Mendel of Riminov, Rebbe Naftali of Ropschitz, the Divrei Chaim of Sanz, the Divrei Yechezkel, Rebbe Boruch of Gorlice, and many more. Also used for travel further afield. Let the Polaks see us and eat themselves up. Jews built Poland almost from scratch.
Casimir the Great invited the Jews to settle in Poland when they were still a semi-barbarian society. Jews built the commercial, financial, and industrial infrastructure of Poland, and before the Holocaust made up about 25% of the population. The Poles of course are known to excel in Hakaras Hatov…
Anecdotally, Marie Curie (Sklodowska), one of the most famous Poles, was repeatedly hounded and called a ‘Zhidovka’, despite not being Jewish (Catholic extremists didn’t like girls going to college back then), because the Polaks themselves didn’t believe a Polish woman could be so smart…
Happy new year ” Poland doesnt even allow Muslims in”… and your point is?
He is a Nazi 100%
pure Yiddishkeit, “or la’goim” is a part of a posuk in Yeshaya Ha”Navi.
pure Yiddishkeit, but yen hachi nami — the Chassidishe seforim are not into this concept.
Whatever specific people do, Poland was on the list of victims in WW2, not perpetrators. Some of the above is ignorant. 3 Million of Polish Jews died, and so did 3 million of Polish Non-Jews… They are a brave nation who were fighting Germans and Soviets in WW2 and for a long time before that. Polish and Litvish Jews generally supported Polish rebellions against Russian empire.
Poles were not semi-barbarian. They were developed agrarian society (in part based on Ukraine). Both Poles and Jewish independent government – Vaad Arba Artzot – had “modern” by the times economic structures, like guilds.
Poland fell behind because of that – when other countries started industrialization and their population moved to cities, Poland enjoyed selling them food – instead of developing their own industry. They also had “too much” of democracy – Sejm had a one person veto, and eventually their enemies, primarily Russia, were able to manipulate that to their advantage.
@pure yiddeshkite
Here’s your source bud.
וַיֹּ֗אמֶר נָקֵ֨ל מִֽהְיוֹתְךָ֥ לִי֙ עֶ֔בֶד לְהָקִים֙ אֶת־שִׁבְטֵ֣י יַעֲקֹ֔ב (ונצירי) [וּנְצוּרֵ֥י] יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לְהָשִׁ֑יב וּנְתַתִּ֙יךָ֙ לְא֣וֹר גּוֹיִ֔ם לִהְי֥וֹת יְשׁוּעָתִ֖י עַד־קְצֵ֥ה הָאָֽרֶץ׃ {ס}
And [God] has said:
“It is too little that you should be My servant
In that I raise up the tribes of Jacob
And restore the survivors of Israel:
I will also make you a light of nations,
That My salvation may reach the ends of the earth.”
@pure yiddeshkite
I wouldn’t consider Yeshaya to be christian scripture.
If he is anti semite then why would you say your Israeli say that your a Jew, saying your Israeli doesn’t help, he will say so go there why come here, but saying that your Jewish, he has no answer, the same is the purpose of going there, is it to go to the fancy hotel and gain cause the shekel to the dollar is better then the zloty or is it cause there is some holy bones there etc. But the point is , if your answer is Israel then he ask why you come, but if you say the purpose was for holy things and cause your Jewish, then what would he answer
@pure yiddishkeit
והלכו גוים לאורך ומלכים לנגה זרחך ( ספר ישעיה • פרק ס’ • פסוק ג’ )
מצודת דוד
לאורך – ר”ל ממך ילמדו דרכי ה’ ואתה תאיר עיניהם
But then Nach not a Jewish idea in your eyes.
@pure yiddishkeit
christian scriptures?
והלכו גוים לאורך ומלכים לנגה זרחך ( ספר ישעיה • פרק ס’ • פסוק ג’ )
@pure Yiddishkiet
אור לגוים is actually found throughout ישעיה, maybe for those who don’t learn נך it’s Christian.
But I agree with your main point, traditional Judaism doesn’t see that as a mission it’s more left wing “Judaism” that makes a mission out of אור לגוים and תיקון עולם.