Polish-language newspaper in Toronto blames Jews for the pandemic

B’nai Brith Canada, an organization that fights antisemitism, has filed a police complaint over the article published twice by the Głos Polski weekly.

The Polish-language Canadian newspaper Głos Polski published an article blaming Jews for the pandemic, according to B'nai Brith Canada. (photo credit: B'NAI BRITH CANADA VIA JTA)
The Polish-language Canadian newspaper Głos Polski published an article blaming Jews for the pandemic, according to B'nai Brith Canada.
(photo credit: B'NAI BRITH CANADA VIA JTA)

A Polish-language newspaper in Toronto has published an article blaming Jews for the coronavirus pandemic.

B’nai Brith Canada, an organization that fights antisemitism, has filed a police complaint over the article published twice by the Głos Polski weekly.

“Propagating the lie that Jews are responsible for COVID-19 must be met with criminal charges, especially when someone does so repeatedly,” said Michael Mostyn, the CEO of B’nai Brith Canada.

According to B’nai Brith, the article blamed the coronavirus pandemic on the Jewish community, claimed Jews were responsible for the creation of ISIS, and called Israel the source of the world’s problems and “an emanation of the Devil himself.”

The article also claimed that communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan were actually Jewish.