#FILIP ILKOWSKI BIOGRAFIA TV#The Festival is known for promoting tolerance and anti-racism, and the TV station attempted to discredit the initiative as allegedly immoral and anti-Christian. * ‘Fałszywe świadectwo’ (‘False Testimony’, page 5) by Anna Konsek, discusses a controversy over the Catholic TV station’s (Telewizja Trwam) material presenting a distorted image of the Woodstock Station Festival. The passages published by the ‘NEVER AGAIN’ magazine are the summary of the report on the situation in Poland as well as specific issues and recommendations regarding necessary counter-activities against anti-Semitism in Poland. * The documents section (pages 3-4) contains excerpts from the 2004 report by the European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance, a Council of Europe’s institution. * The open letter section (page 6) contains a protest statement of the ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association concerning plans of demolition of historical synagogue building in the city of Poznań, as well as an open letter to the President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, demanding a dismissal of far right politician Roman Giertych from the Minister of Education office. * The letters section (pages 2-3) contains letters from readers as well as greetings letter from Barbara Radziewicz who was honoured as “Anti-Fascist of 2005.” The controversy became a public issue in 2005 when Andrzej Lepper was nominated as Samoobrona’s candidate for a Deputy Speaker seat of the Polish Parliament. The Academy, as the authors of the article reveal, is the largest private university in Ukraine, and became known as having links and respecting politicians and ideologues, both from the West and from the Muslim world, who overtly hold anti-Semitic views. Lepper is a prominent politician of the Samoobrona party that is now part of the ruling coalition in Poland. * ‘Akademia antysemityzmu’ (‘Academy of Anti-Semitism’, page 1) by Jacek Zinkiewicz and Marcin Kornak, discusses a controversy over Andrzej Lepper’s honorary doctorate at the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management in Kiev, Ukraine. * The editors’ opening article discusses the problem of far right’s presence within the Polish government following the 2005 elections and the formation of the coalition in spring 2006. NIGDY WIECEJ - NEVER AGAIN, issue 15, summer 2006
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