A third New York City church has cancelled an event scheduled with Ewa Kurek, a Holocaust historian who teaches that Polish Jews were complicit with the Nazis during occupation.
The pastor of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in East Harlem, Rev. Marian Wierzchowski, confirmed the cancellation to TPM Tuesday.
“We were able to speak with the pastor of the parish today, and he has agreed to our request to cancel her talk,” New York Archdiocese spokesperson Joe Zwilling added.
Activists, led by Polish-American Greenpoint resident Victoria Cambranes, became recently aware of a group called Polonia United that had been leading protests against a Senate bill that would provide reparations for Holocaust survivors. The same group put up flyers advertising Kurek’s upcoming appearances.
Along with Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in East Harlem, she was scheduled to appear at St. Stanislaus Kostka Church in Greenpoint and St. Francis de Chantal in Borough Park, both of which have been cancelled.
Kurek appears to still be planning to speak at the Church of St. Theresa of the Child Jesus in Linden, New Jersey. Maria Margiotta, communications director for the Archdiocese of Newark, told TPM that her appearance at the church was “brought to their attention yesterday” and that they are “looking into it.”
Cambranes said that Polonia United is looking to reschedule Kurek’s cancelled appearances. TPM’s multiple inquiries to the group have gone unanswered.
Perhaps Liberty University will welcome her?
Goddamn right. Buh-bye. But just Why were there so many invites in the first place? Was this history-ologist not on google?
There is just no reason for this person or any other person who wants to recast history to make the Holocaust something different than it was, to have any forum to do that. There just is no reason - there is no good reason to hear “other ideas” when they are so patently false, misleading, and come with such bad intentions.
This is neither spontaneous nor isolated; it is well-funded and orchestrated.
Fascist anti-Semitism once again is on the march in Europe and America.
Last month, the Polish Prime Minister, himself, egged on thousands of anti-Semitic protestors – some of whom carried Confederate flags.
It’s gotten so bad, the German government now is warning Jews against wearing kippot in public.
We have seen this all before; we know how it ends.
Western Civilization is playing with fire.
Except in order to refute them.