[A. Pole]

What, you took it personally that I asked you if there is anti-semitism in Poland?

Why do you ask such question if you know very well that in EVERY country there are people who hate others?

The original nasty passage from the article is:

"this blood-soaked land, where Jews had been so ruthlessly hunted down and killed by their former neighbors and friends"

In EVERY nation there will be people who will collaborate with the oppressors and who will be traitors. It ALSO applies to the Jews who had many collaborators among themselves too.

But this passage does not express this universal human condition - it rather project the evil on the Poles and makes them into scapegoats.

[Sam Gamgee]

I do understand your distaste with the implication that Poles were unique in collaborating or turning in Jews. France collaborated and handed in Jews most readily. And America and Canada refused boatloads of Jews in the 30s.

I can't find the poll I had heard recently and it was probably something I heard in passing in the news. I was actually astounded by the stat because I had always assumed that Poles and Jews would find common ground with each other. Both have been victims of history for a long time, and treated with much prejudice. They both also fought in resistance groups against the Nazi occupation - although the Jewish resistance was rather small after the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto.

So that was the reason for my question. Yes, Canada has plenty of anti-Jewish racism. Probably a fairly high percentage of the population, depending on how a question is worded.