The assault comes amid an increase in anti-Semitic incidents throughout the globe within the wake of the Israel-Gaza struggle.
Poland’s political leaders have condemned a firebomb assault on a synagogue in Warsaw.
The Nozyk Synagogue within the capital was attacked with three firebombs early on Wednesday. The constructing sustained minimal harm, and there have been no casualties.
Police stated they haven’t established a motive for the assault and no perpetrator has been recognized. Assaults in opposition to Jewish targets have risen across the globe since Israel launched its struggle on Gaza in October. Nonetheless, additionally it is suspected Russia could also be searching for to make use of the rising pressure to encourage social divisions in Europe.
“We have been knowledgeable in a single day about an incident involving a bottle containing a flammable liquid being thrown onto synagogue grounds,” a police spokesperson stated.
President Andrzej Duda referred to as the assault “shameful” in a publish on X. “There isn’t a place for antisemitism in Poland! There isn’t a place for hatred in Poland!” stated the pinnacle of state, who’s intently linked with the nationalist, conservative Regulation & Justice Get together (PiS), which ruled Poland for eight years earlier than shedding to an opposition alliance in final 12 months’s elections.
“We should reply very robustly and strongly to this outrageous and harsh assault,” International Minister Radek Sikorski declared.
We realized that at 1:00 this morning, a Molotov cocktail was thrown on the entrance of the Nożyk Synagogue.
Fortunately, nobody was harm and no severe harm was accomplished. Nonetheless, we should reply very strongly and robustly to this outrageous and harsh assault. https://t.co/3s41jxUF8J
— Ministry of International Affairs 🇵🇱 (@PolandMFA) Could 1, 2024
The staunchly pro-Western minister additionally famous that the incident got here on the twentieth anniversary of Poland becoming a member of the European Union.
“Thank God nobody was harm. I ponder who’s making an attempt to disrupt the anniversary of our accession to the EU,” Sikorski wrote on X. “Perhaps the identical ones who scribbled Stars of David in Paris?”
In November after the outbreak of the Gaza struggle, greater than 200 work of the Star of David appeared on buildings round Paris.
France later stated a Russian destabilisation marketing campaign had used automated social media accounts to whip up controversy and confusion concerning the symbols and feed alarm about surging anti-Semitism.
A Moldovan couple who was arrested in Paris for scrawling Stars of David on a faculty instructed media that they acted on orders from “a person in Russia”.
In response to the Anti Defamation League, anti-Semitism has soared in Europe since October 7.
