The assault comes amid an increase in anti-Semitic incidents all over the world following the warfare between Israel and Gaza.
Poland’s political leaders 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 suffered minimal harm and there have been no casualties.
Police mentioned they haven’t established a motive for the assault and no perpetrator has been recognized. Assaults on Jewish targets have elevated all over the world since Israel launched its warfare on Gaza in October. Nevertheless, there are additionally suspicions that Russia may very well be making an attempt to make use of the rising pressure to foment social divisions in Europe.
“We had been made conscious in a single day of an incident the place a bottle containing a flammable liquid was thrown onto the synagogue grounds,” a police spokesperson mentioned.
President Andrzej Duda known as the assault “shameful” in a put up on X. “There isn’t a place for anti-Semitism in Poland! In Poland there isn’t any place for hate!” mentioned the pinnacle of state, who’s intently linked to the nationalist and conservative Legislation and Justice (PiS) get together, which dominated Poland for eight years earlier than dropping to an opposition alliance in final yr’s elections.
“We should reply very firmly and firmly to this scandalous and merciless assault,” declared Overseas Minister Radek Sikorski.
We now have discovered that this morning at 1:00 p.m. a Molotov cocktail was thrown in entrance of the NoĹĽyk synagogue.
Happily, nobody was injured and no severe harm was triggered. Nevertheless, we should reply very strongly and decisively to this outrageous and merciless assault. https://t.co/3s41jxUF8J
— Ministry of Overseas Affairs 🇵🇱 (@PolandMFA) Might 1, 2024
The staunchly pro-Western minister additionally famous that the incident occurred on the twentieth anniversary of Poland’s accession to the European Union.
“Thank God nobody was harm. “I ponder who’s making an attempt to disrupt the anniversary of our EU accession,” Sikorski wrote in X. “Possibly the identical ones who scribbled the Stars of David in Paris?”
In November, after the outbreak of the Gaza warfare, greater than 200 work of the Star of David appeared on buildings round Paris.
France later mentioned a Russian destabilization marketing campaign had used automated social media accounts to stir controversy and confusion over the symbols and gasoline alarm about rising anti-Semitism.
A Moldovan couple who had been arrested in Paris for scrawling Stars of David on a faculty informed media they acted on the orders of “a person in Russia.”
In accordance with the Anti-Defamation League, anti-Semitism has skyrocketed in Europe since October 7.
