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Israel ‘regrets’ Polish effigy burning, ‘encouraged’ by authorities’ reaction
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIsrael expresses “regret” over an anti-Semitic incident last Friday in Poland in which a crowd beat, hanged, beheaded and burned an effigy of Judas Iscariot — Jesus’ betrayer — which was given a hooked nose and a hat and sidecurls typical of an ultra-Orthodox Jew.
“We regret the anti-Semitic incident in the village of Pruchnik during the festival of Easter, but are encouraged by the firm reaction by the Polish church, authorities and senior officials in Poland’s government,” the Foreign Ministry says in a statement.
The country’s Catholic Church has denounced the ritual, and the local province of Jaroslaw has opened a criminal investigation.
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