Absolutely. If the original criticism was -- these people hate Poland they should not be allowed to use us to gain EU benefits -- the criticism would have validity.
As to the anti-Semitism of Poles during WWII, I have to believe that the man who expressed the sentiment that the Poles were "worse than the Germans" experienced it as such. But his opinion is anecdotal and not scientific. While it may offend innocent Poles, I'm sure the appropriate response is not "this man is scum."
I'm sure the appropriate response is not "this man is scum.
Me too, that's why I wrote, that I didn't agree with everything Grzegorz had writen.
He was right at many points, but expressed his views not in a way I would do.
As to the problem of Poles being allegedly worse than Germans during Holocaust - you see, dervish - such an opinion is something absolutely beyond my comprehension. Even if I agreed with your views expressed in our past discussion about Poland's responsibility for Holocaust (but I don't).
Btw.
Today I read an interview with Efraim Zuroff - the head of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre (based in Jerusalem). The interview was related to a telephone hotline dedicated to hunting down Holocaust war criminals (more about it this hotline here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3813415.stm).
He was talking about results of this action.
Let me quote a fragment (sorry for my poor translation)
Question: How it is in Poland?
Answer: There is a political will to clear up cases, however it's smaller than in Germany. We've got about 20 informations. Mainly relating to denouncing Jews, but there happen to be also informations that someone committed a murder himself (...)
Question: Whos denouncing, who's reporting?
Answer: Neighbours, acquaintances, someone who heard about a case. In two months we'll be able to say which reports are true. Poland differs from Baltic states. In your country cases of collaboration happened quite rarely, whereas over there (in Baltics) civilian population was a part of criminal system. From Lithuania we've got the biggesst number of reports - 198 persons.
Mr Zuroff is a scholar, specialists on that issue, so I think he knows what he's saying
This is the link for this interview (unfortunately in Polish only)
http://www.rzeczpospolita.pl/gazeta/wydanie_050419/publicystyka/publicystyka_a_4.html?k=on;t=2005041920050419