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World Jewish News
Poland: Remove the anti-Semite from Television
12.04.2009
A group of prominent figures in culture supported the call of Jewih leaders for the dismissal of an extreme-right politician from the position of Director of a national television channel.
A 31-year-old Peter Farfal, a former skinhead activist, was appointed to head the TVP in 2006, under the pressure of the ultra-conservative Christian Family League.
The young and scandalous politician still maintains contacts with extremist nationalist organizations, which led to the cessation of cooperation of the German-French television channel Arte with TVP.
The last of the surviving commanders of the Warsaw Ghetto, Marek Edelman appealed to the public with a request to put pressure on the government, so that Farfal is fired from this important public position.
"In a democratic country, national television cannot be headed by a person who follows the ideas of racism and anti-Semitism. Farfal has never repented for his neo-Nazi past," Edelman stressed in an interview to a popular newspaper.
Famous Polish culture figures Andrzej Wajda, Agnieszka Holland, Kazimierz Kuts, Richard Krause and actor Andrzej Severin have publicly supported Edelman's initiative.
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