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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: Hate Speech is on the Rise in Poland
Description: Last week, the Polish Senate passed a law that would make it a criminal offense to claim that Poland was complicit in Nazi crimes. The Israeli government strongly opposed this measure, as do most people who care about honest academic discourse. Nevertheless, the measure was passed and now awaits the signature of the president to become law.Β When I caught up with my guest today, Monika Mazur-RafaΕ, Poland's lower house had recently passed the law and as Monika explains the public debate and discourse about it was heavily colored by invocations of ethnic nationalism and hate speech. Mo...