Polonica.net was a Polish anti-Jewish

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established in 2002 and endorsed by the Polish Catholic National Resistance Movement Against Judaisation and Depolonization, the Polish Patriotic Union and the Worldwide Movement of Catholic National Avant-garde. The portal was closed in 2010.

The web portal presented articles (mainly written by Polish Catholic priest Henryk Jankowski - whom was banned from preaching for a year after he said Poles should not tolerate a Jewish minority in the Polish government) propagating

anti-Semitism Antisemitism or Jew-hatred is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who harbours it is called an antisemite. Whether antisemitism is considered a form of racism depends on the school of thought. Antisemi ...

, as well as a "List of Jews in Oppressed Poland" ("Lista zydow w zniewalanej Polsce"), which showed so-called "real Jewish surnames" of many well-known Polish public people next to their "new" Polish surnames, including their biographies dating back to the period before the Second World War. Journalist

Adam Michnik Adam Michnik (; born 17 October 1946) is a Polish historian, essayist, former Anti-communist resistance in Poland (1944–1989), dissident, Intellectual#Public intellectual, public intellectual, as well as co-founder and editor-in-chief of the P ...

, historian and politician

Bronisław Geremek Bronisław Geremek (; born Benjamin Lewertow;

, former president

Aleksander Kwaśniewski Aleksander Kwaśniewski (; born 15 November 1954) is a Polish politician and journalist. He served the maximum two terms as the president of Poland from 1995 to 2005. His tenure as President was marked by modernization of Poland, rapid economi ...

, and former Prime Minister

Tadeusz Mazowiecki Tadeusz Mazowiecki (; 18 April 1927 – 28 October 2013) was a Polish author, journalist, philanthropist and politician, formerly one of the leaders of the Solidarity movement, and the first non-communist Polish prime minister since 1946, hav ...

appeared on that list. The list was an inspiration for poster titled "Żydzi won z katolickiego kraju" ("Jews, get out of a Catholic country!") by Polish

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artist Peter Fuss. The poster was displayed in

Koszalin Koszalin (; ; , ) is a city in northwestern Poland, in Western Pomerania. It is located south of the Baltic Sea coast, and intersected by the river Dzierżęcinka. Koszalin is also a county-status city and capital of Koszalin County of West Pomera ...

in 2007 with the aim of encouraging people to see an exhibition on Anti-Semitism. The exhibition caused great controversies and was closed before opening by the police. In the section "Red Resumes", columnists of the portal presented "true resumes" of Polish politicians including their "real" Jewish surnames. For example, ex-president of Poland Aleksander Kwaśniewski was presented as Izaak Stoltzman, and

Jacek Kuroń Jacek Jan Kuroń (; 3 March 1934 – 17 June 2004) was one of the democratic leaders of opposition in the People's Republic of Poland. He was widely known as the "godfather of the Polish opposition," not unlike Václav Havel in Czechoslovakia. Kur ...

as Icek Kordblum. The list also included

Donald Tusk Donald Franciszek Tusk (born 22 April 1957) is a Polish politician and historian who has served as the prime minister of Poland since 2023, previously holding the office from 2007 to 2014. Tusk served as the president of the European Council (20 ...

Ludwik Dorn Ludwik Stanisław Dorn (, 5 June 1954 – 7 April 2022) was a Polish conservative politician, who served as Deputy Prime Minister and member of Sejm elected on 5 November 2007. Biography Dorn was born Ludwik Dornbaum, to Polish-Jewish parents H ...

Lech Kaczyński Lech Aleksander Kaczyński (; 18 June 194910 April 2010) was a Polish politician who served as the city mayor of Warsaw from 2002 until 2005, and as President of Poland from 2005 until his death in 2010 in an air crash. The aircraft carrying ...

Lech Wałęsa Lech Wałęsa (; ; born 29 September 1943) is a Polish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as the president of Poland between 1990 and 1995. After winning the 1990 Polish presidential election, 1990 election, Wałę ...

, Monika Olejnik,

Sebastian Imbierowicz Sebastian may refer to: People and fictional characters * Sebastian (name), including a list of persons and fictional characters with the name * Saint Sebastian, a Christian saint martyred in the 3rd century * Sebastian of Portugal (1554–1578 ...

, or even

Dorota Rabczewska Dorota Aqualiteja Rabczewska (Polish: ; born 15 February 1984), known professionally as Doda, is a Polish singer-songwriter, film producer, producer, actress and television personality. A three-time MTV Europe Music Award winner, she is among t ...

Gosia Andrzejewicz Małgorzata "Gosia" Andrzejewicz (born 14 January 1984) is a Polish singer. She debuted in 2004 and has since earned major hits in Poland, like "Pozwól żyć", " Słowa" and "Trochę ciepła". Two of her albums have been certified Gold in her h ...

, Jolanta Rutowicz and

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(a fictional person). Apart from that we could find articles titled like "Schedule of the fight against Jews", "Antypolonizm", "United States under Jewish control", "Inconvenient truth about roots of the Jewish nation", The web portal published also well-known anti-Jewish pamphlets and articles translated into Polish like

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written by American industrialist and automobile manufacturer

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Main statement

A statement that Poland and its economy remained under control of people of Jewish origin was a thematic predominant feature of the portal. On the main page one could read that these people were aspiring for destroying Polish tradition, as well as being definitely against

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and a strong position of the Roman Catholic Church. According to the authors of Polonica.net, people of Jewish origin were the main threat to Poland and its independence, therefore the web portal supported the idea of expelling Jews from Poland once and for all.

Closing

The portal was shut down in 2010 although there were attempts to shut down the portal by Polish police since 2007 without success. The reason for that was that polonica.net was installed on American server and the administrator of portal was outside the country.

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