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Doctor Injured While Trying to Prevent Antisemitic Polish MP From Extinguishing Hanukkah Menorah Speaks Out
A t-shirt being sold online celebrating antisemitic Polish MP Grzegorz Braun’s assault on a Hanukkah menorah with a fire extinguisher. Photo: Screenshot
A woman assaulted by the antisemitic Polish MP who wrecked a menorah lighting display at the Polish parliament this week has spoken out about her ordeal.
Magdalena Gudzińska-Adamczyk, a doctor, told the Rzeczpospolita news outlet on Friday that she had suffered from health problems after being hit in the face with the same fire extinguisher used by the MP — Grzegorz Braun of the far right Confederation Party — to extinguish the candles of a menorah lit in a corridor of the parliament building in celebration of the annual Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Dozens of people who attended the candle lighting ceremony, including several children, were immediately evacuated by security officers.
Gudzińska-Adamczyk was struck as she tried to prevent Braun from setting off the fire extinguisher. After she left the parliament building, she fell unconscious and was rushed to the hospital.
“I feel better today, but I still can’t speak,” she told the newspaper in a text message. “I communicate via SMS.”
Gudzińska-Adamczyk said she was considering taking legal action against Braun, but that she would focus on her health first, as she suffers from a long-term illness.
She added that Braun had told her that “people like me are shameful and that I am not a woman.”
Asked about an online fundraiser for Braun that raised nearly $20,000 in less than 24 hours, Gudzińska-Adamczyk gave a gloomy response.
“It’s very bad how people accept and support violence. Because it was violence, not only against me, not only against Polish Jews, but against the entire Sejm [Polish parliament] community and towards Poland,” she said.
Braun’s antics were widely condemned by Polish politicians, but he appears to be achieving folk hero status among sections of Polish society. Researchers from the Polish anti-racist organization “Never Again” identified several items of merchandise being sold online in support of Braun throughout the week.
One t-shirt shows a graphic representation of a fire extinguisher aimed at a menorah. Other items include coffee mugs showing Braun dressed in a firefighter’s uniform.
Braun was suspended from parliament immediately after the incident. On Wednesday, the District Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw announced that it was initiating legal proceedings against the MP.
For his part, Braun has shown no remorse, telling those who berated him on Tuesday that they were the ones who should feel “ashamed to participate in the acts of a Satanic Talmudic cult.” He then doubled down with a post on X/Twitter that declared, “There can be no place for acts of racist, wild, Talmudic worship on the premises of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland!”
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Rights Group Files Lawsuit to Block Trump Deportations of Anti-Israel Protesters
Marco Rubio speaks after he is sworn in as Secretary of State by US Vice President JD Vance at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, Jan. 21, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) filed a lawsuit challenging as unconstitutional the Trump administration’s actions to deport international students and scholars who protest or express support for Palestinian rights.
The lawsuit, filed on Saturday in the US District Court for the Northern District of New York, seeks a nationwide temporary restraining order to block enforcement of two executive orders signed by US President Donald Trump in the first month of his term.
The lawsuit comes after the detention of a Columbia University student, Mahmoud Khalil, a 30-year-old permanent US resident of Palestinian descent, whose arrest sparked protests this month.
Justice Department lawyers have argued that the US government is seeking Khalil’s removal because Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reasonable grounds to believe his activities or presence in the country could have “serious adverse foreign policy consequences.” Rubio on Friday said the United States will likely revoke visas of more students in the coming days.
Trump vowed to deport activists who took part in protests on US college campuses against Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza following the October 2023 attack by the Palestinian terrorists.
The ADC lawsuit was filed on behalf of two graduate students and a professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, who say their activism and support of the Palestinian people “has put them at serious risk of political persecution.”
“This lawsuit is a necessary step to preserve our most fundamental constitutional protections. The First Amendment guarantees the freedom of speech and expression to all persons within the United States, without exception,” said Abed Ayoub, national executive director of the ADC.
Chris Godshall-Bennett, the group’s legal director, said the litigation seeks immediate and long-term relief “to protect international students from any unconstitutional overreach that stifles free expression and deters them from fully engaging in academic and public discourse.”
The lawsuit centers on three Cornell University plaintiffs: a British-Gambian national and PhD student with a student visa; a US citizen PhD student working on plant science; and a US citizen novelist, poet, and professor in the Department of Literatures in English.
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Netanyahu Informs Shin Bet Chief to Vote on His Dismissal Next Week
Israel’s Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar speaks at Reichman University in Herzliya on Sunday, September 11, 2022. Photo: Screenshot
i24 News – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Ronen Bar, the head of the Shin Bet security agency, that he will bring a vote before his government to dismiss him next week.
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Houthis Claim to Attack US Aircraft Carrier, Retaliating for Strikes
Newly recruited fighters who joined a Houthi military force intended to be sent to fight in support of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, march during a parade in Sanaa, Yemen, Dec. 2, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
i24 News – The Houthis claimed on Sunday that they targeted the aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman and other vessels in the northern Red Sea with 18 ballistic and cruise missiles and a drone. Military spokesperson Yahya Saree said that the US-led attacks against the Houthis on Saturday comprised of more than 47 airstrikes on seven governorates, with the death toll expected to rise.
“The Yemeni Armed Forces will not hesitate to target all American warships in the Red Sea and in the Arabian Sea in retaliation to the aggression against our country,” Saree said, vowing the Houthis “will continue to impose a naval blockade on the Israeli enemy and ban its ships in the declared zone of operations until aid and basic needs are delivered to the Gaza Strip.”
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