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Antisemitism is alive and well in Poland.

A newspaper there has caused outrage by publishing an article — on its front page — teaching readers “how to spot a Jew.”

The Polish-language weekly, Tylko Polska, or “Only Poland,” includes a list of supposed markers such as “Names, anthropological features, expressions, appearances, character traits, methods of operation” and “disinformation activities.”

The text also reads: “How to defeat them? This cannot go on!” according to JTA. “The page also features a headline reading, “Attack on Poland at a conference in Paris.” The reference is to a Holocaust studies conference last month during which Polish nationalists complained that speakers were anti-Polish. That article features a picture of Jan Gross, a Polish-Jewish Princeton University scholar of Polish complicity in the Holocaust and a frequent target of nationalist attacks.”

JTA reported that the newspaper was first seen at the lower house of the Polish parliament, the Sejm, on Wednesday, as part of the weekly package of publications sent to lawmakers.

“After it was spotted, Polish opposition politician Michal Kaminski called for prosecutors to investigate on the basis of inciting hatred based on race or religion, and a lawmaker from the ruling right-wing Law and Justice party argued for the newspaper to be banned altogether,” reported vt.co. “According to reports, director of the Sejm Information Center Andrzej Grzegrzolka at first claimed that his office could not take action because the paper was being sold from kiosks inside the Sejm, which was responsible for the choice of publications in stock.”

Only Poland is published by Leszek Bubl, a fringe nationalist political candidate and sometime musician who has sung about “rabid” rabbis. “The paper was spotted Wednesday at the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament, as part of this week’s packet of periodicals,” Arutz Sheva reported.

Michał Kamiński, a conservative lawmaker, protested the article and its presence at the Sejm, Polsat news reported. The Sejm Information Center responded by saying that “the Chancellery of the Sejm will request the publication’s removal from the press kit.”

Tensions between Poland and Israel have been running high. A month after a crisis erupted between Israel and Poland over Polish history of the Holocaust, Polish President Andrzej Duda outlined a path “for how it can be resolved, saying that the first move must be made by Israel,” the Jerusalem Post reported. “The side that started the crisis should also finish it,” Duda told The Jerusalem Post in an exclusive interview at the Presidential Palace. Asked if that would be Israel, he said: “Yes. I expect friendship and respect. On both sides.”

The diplomatic dust-up started during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Warsaw last month to participate in a Middle East summit hosted by the United States. “After a briefing with reporters, Netanyahu was quoted as saying – including by this paper – that “The Poles cooperated with the Nazis” to kill Jews during the Holocaust,” reported the Post. “Warsaw interpreted this to mean Netanyahu was referring to Poland as a nation.”

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