The assault comes amid an increase in anti-Semitic incidents throughout the globe within the wake of the Israel-Gaza conflict.
Poland’s political leaders have 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 sustained minimal injury, and there have been no casualties.
Police mentioned they haven’t established a motive for the assault and no perpetrator has been recognized. Assaults in opposition to Jewish targets have risen across the globe since Israel launched its conflict on Gaza in October. Nonetheless, it is usually suspected Russia could also be in search of to make use of the rising pressure to encourage social divisions in Europe.
“We had been knowledgeable in a single day about an incident involving a bottle containing a flammable liquid being thrown onto synagogue grounds,” a police spokesperson mentioned.
President Andrzej Duda known as the assault “shameful” in a submit on X. “There is no such thing as a place for antisemitism in Poland! There is no such thing as a place for hatred in Poland!” mentioned the top of state, who’s intently linked with the nationalist, conservative Regulation & Justice Get together (PiS), which ruled Poland for eight years earlier than shedding to an opposition alliance in final 12 months’s elections.
“We should reply very robustly and strongly to this outrageous and harsh assault,” Overseas Minister Radek Sikorski declared.
We discovered that at 1:00 this morning, a Molotov cocktail was thrown on the entrance of the Nożyk Synagogue.
Fortunately, nobody was harm and no critical injury was carried out. Nonetheless, we should reply very strongly and robustly to this outrageous and harsh assault. https://t.co/3s41jxUF8J
— Ministry of Overseas Affairs 🇵🇱 (@PolandMFA) Could 1, 2024
The staunchly pro-Western minister additionally famous that the incident got here on the twentieth anniversary of Poland becoming a member of the European Union.
“Thank God nobody was harm. I’m wondering who’s making an attempt to disrupt the anniversary of our accession to the EU,” Sikorski wrote on X. “Perhaps the identical ones who scribbled Stars of David in Paris?”
In November after the outbreak of the Gaza conflict, greater than 200 work of the Star of David appeared on buildings round Paris.
France later mentioned a Russian destabilisation marketing campaign had used automated social media accounts to whip up controversy and confusion in regards to the symbols and feed alarm about surging anti-Semitism.
A Moldovan couple who was arrested in Paris for scrawling Stars of David on a college informed media that they acted on orders from “a person in Russia”.
Based on the Anti Defamation League, anti-Semitism has soared in Europe since October 7.
