Polish Academics Protest Abuse of Term 'Anthropology' in Antisemitic Newspaper's Headline
MARCH 15, 2019 4:26 PM 1
‘How to Recognize A Jew’: The antisemitic headline in the Polish publication Tylko Polska. Photo: Twitter.
The academic leadership of the Polish Anthropological Society on Friday and a prominent Polish Jewish organization were among the voices on Friday joining the chorus of condemnation that greeted this week’s revelation of a viciously antisemitic newspaper on sale in the kiosk of the hotel attached to the national parliament building in Warsaw.
The headline on the front page of Tylko Polska, an ultranationalist weekly, announced that it would assist in readers in the task of “How to Recognize a Jew.” Among the dubious methods listed was “anthropological features.”
In a letter to the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, the head of the Polish Anthropological Society strongly protested “the shaming of our scientific field by antisemites.”
“Scientists dealing with biological anthropology express the categorical objection that any information about our scientific field should be used as a typological tool that boils down to stigmatizing people,” Prof. Krzysztof Szostek wrote.
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https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/03/15/polish-academics-protest-abuse-of-term-anthropology-in-antisemitic-newspapers-headline/
