{"id":1827,"date":"2014-07-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/30-07-2014-andrychow-pogroms-against-rroma\/"},"modified":"2022-07-26T14:38:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T13:38:00","slug":"30-07-2014-andrychow-pogroms-against-rroma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/30-07-2014-andrychow-pogroms-against-rroma\/","title":{"rendered":"30.07.2014 Andrychow: pogroms against Rroma"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zurawski (2014) reports \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ton anti-Rroma pogroms in Andrychow, Poland. According to the journalists, last \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmonth, right-wing groups have begun with demonstrations propagandising \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cCyganies out\u201d \u00a0(Gypsies out). \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAndrychow is just a few kilometres from Auschwitz, where thousands of Rroma \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twere systematically murdered during the Second World War. Roman Kwiatkowski, president \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof the Polish Rroma Association, called the latest incidents very disturbing. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMany Rroma are worried and afraid: \u201cIn \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAndrychow last month, a pregnant Roma woman was attacked as she walked in the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tstreet. Soon after, two young ethnic Poles were beaten up in what many \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tresidents assumed was a Roma revenge attack. Anger erupted. Supporters of the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tlocal football club, Beskid Andrychow, set up a page on Facebook. It published \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\taccounts of what it said were violent attacks by Roma, and photographs of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tethnic Poles it said had been beaten up. The page has now been \u201cliked\u201d by \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t14,182 people. One post read: \u201cWe\u2019re not going to sit quietly and pretend that \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\teverything is OK. We are shouting long and loud: enough of Gypsy impunity!\u201d\u201d <\/em>Critics \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsee the new right-wing movement in Poland as influenced by the Hungarian Jobbik \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tparty. This has made racist comments against Rroma socially acceptable among \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmore and more people. It is very alarming that racist slogans against the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tminority still find such strong echo. The defamation of a minority does not \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tstart when it is physically excluded and ostracized, but already when it is \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tagitated against by demagoguery. This intellectual arson must be stopped. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPolicy makers from Poland are called upon to stop the spread of anti-Semitic \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthought (compare Zurawski\/Lowe\/Goettig 2014).<\/p>\n