Jewish effigy representing Judas burnt and hung in Poland

During an Easter ritual residents of one town, among them children, beat and burned the effigy. World Jewish Congress expressed ‘disgust and outrage’.

Robert Singer, CEO of the New York-based group, said in a statement that “Jews are deeply disturbed by this ghastly revival of medieval anti-Semitism that led to unimaginable violence and suffering.”

So much antisemitic hatred in one video…

As Jews celebrate Passover, #antisemitic residents of the town of Pruchnik in southern #Poland beat and burned a doll made to represent a Jew with stereotypical features. pic.twitter.com/cqnEGJBh8a

— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) April 21, 2019

Residents, among them children, beat and burned the effigy in the southeastern town of Pruchnik on Good Friday. The figure represented Judas, the discipline of Christ who betrayed him according to the New Testament.

The World Jewish Congress has expressed its “disgust and outrage” following reports that an effigy made to look like a stereotypical Jew was hanged and burned in a Polish town as part of an Easter ritual.

Polska. Pruchnik. Rok 1930 i 2019.
Poland. Pruchnik. 1930 and 2019. pic.twitter.com/zuE0xFXtmk

— Jack #CSB (@zKaszebe) April 21, 2019

Poles also expressed their disgust at the revival of the anti-Semitic ritual. Some posted photos online of the same ritual being carried out before World War II.

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