POLISH MEMBER OF EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: JEWS ARE A DETRIMENT TO EUROPE

Jews are a detriment to Europe, Polish politician says in new book
By Dinah A. Spritzer
PRAGUE (JTA) -- A Polish member of the European Parliament has published a booklet suggesting that Jews are unethical, are obsessed with separateness and are a "tragic community" because they don't accept Jesus as the messiah.

The extreme right-wing parliamentarian Maciej Giertych, an influential member of the nationalistic, Catholic-based League of Polish Families, released "Civilization at War in Europe" on Feb. 14 at the European Parliament headquarters in Strasbourg.

Giertych's son, Roman, Poland's education minister and deputy prime minister, now heads the league, which has been battling the stain of anti-Semitism for years.