A sign reading "Jews to the gas chambers" was hung on the campus of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. The city is located only a few dozen kilometers from the Auschwitz concentration camp, where nearly a million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.
The sign was put up on Thursday, the same day that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who orchestrated the October 7 massacre, was killed.
The sign was placed in an area where other signs anti-Israel and pro-Palestine banners were also displayed. Among them were posters of masked individuals with the slogan "Palestine will be free."
Israel's ambassador to Poland, Dr. Yaakov Livneh, addressed the call to murder Jews, saying, "While the Jewish state is fighting to make the world a safer place, Israel's enemies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow are calling to murder Jews with gas, as was done not far from there in Auschwitz. I urge the Polish authorities to thoroughly investigate what's happening on campus.”
A few months ago, anti-Israel protesters took over Jagiellonian University’s main campus. They set up a protest tent and hung signs anti-Israel in the courtyard facing Grodzka Street, the main pedestrian thoroughfare crossing the Krakow’s Old Town.
Israeli and Jewish students studying at the Jagiellonian University said they feel threatened by the antisemitic bullying they see around them. Appeals to the Krakow authorities and the university administration have so far failed to make any changes.
The Jagiellonian University, established in 1364, is the oldest in Poland and is considered one of the best in the country. It has a loaded history concerning the Jewish community as Jews were not allowed to study there after it was founded and its students were often involved in pogroms against local Jews.
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