From 1991 to 1994, Krzysztof Andrzej Baliński was the ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Syria and Jordan. He was dismissed from his position when, while ambassador in Damascus, he applied to the Syrian authorities for an exemption from customs duties on marble exports.
Since at least 2013 he has been publishing in Polish dailies Nasza Polska, Tygodnik Solidarność, and Głos that support the Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (PiS, Law and Justice) Party. Since the party took power in 2015, the dailies have been partially funded by the state budget. Since 2012, he has been a regular contributor to the antisemitic Warsaw Gazette. As commentator and columnist, he specializes in spreading conspiracy theories about Jewish and Israeli interests allegedly being hostile to Poland. All his published books describe an alleged international Jewish conspiracy against Poland: Poland or Polin; Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland or Polin – Secrets Of Polish-Jewish Relations; and The Judeans Are Closing In On Us – About Post-Jewish Property in Poland.
He is active on social media, appears in interviews in the mainstream media in Poland that are then uploaded to YouTube. It should be noted that MEMRI researchers have identified a significant amount of non-English antisemitic content on YouTube.
The following report reviews several interviews available online in which he makes antisemitic comments and promotes his antisemitic books.
YOU MUST BE SUBSCRIBED TO THE MEMRI DOMESTIC TERRORISM THREAT MONITOR (DTTM) TO READ THE FULL REPORT. GOVERNMENT AND MEDIA CAN REQUEST A COPY BY WRITING TO DTTMSUBS@MEMRI.ORG WITH THE REPORT TITLE IN THE SUBJECT LINE. PLEASE INCLUDE FULL ORGANIZATIONAL DETAILS AND AN OFFICIAL EMAIL ADDRESS IN YOUR REQUEST. NOTE: WE ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE A COPY ONLY TO MEMBERS OF GOVERNMENT, LAW ENFORCEMENT, MEDIA, AND ACADEMIA, AND TO SUBSCRIBERS; IF YOU DO NOT MEET THESE CRITERIA PLEASE DO NOT REQUEST.
On The YouTube Channel Of Polish Commentator Stanisław Michałkiewicz, Leading Commentator On Top Polish Catholic Radio Station: "The United States Is The Tool Of The Jews; The Tool With Which To Oppress Poland"
On November 30, 2020, the YouTube channel of Stanisław Michałkiewicz, one of the leading commentators of Radio Maryja, which is the most influential Catholic radio station in Poland, released a video featuring an interview with Krzysztof Baliński about the release of his new book Poland or Polin – Secrets of Polish-Jewish Relations. The discussion addresses the topic of the book, which is an alleged "Jewish occupation of Poland [...] The Jews were the tool of Stalin, but now the United States is the tool of the Jews; the tool with which to oppress Poland."
Polish antisemite Stanisłąw Michałkiewicz, a leading commentator on the influential Catholic radio station Radio Maryja, uploaded to YouTube on February 2, 2022, a video of himself promoting Baliński's recent book The Judeans Are Closing In On Us – On Post-Jewish Property in Poland. In the video, Michałkiewicz states: "Germans and Jews have a common anti-Polish historical policy [...] The aim of Jewish historical policy is to profit from the Holocaust [...]."
Michalkiewicz uploaded to YouTube on February 8, 2023, a video of himself promoting Baliński's recently published book titled The Judeans Are Closing In On Us – On Post-Jewish Property in Poland. In the video, Baliński states: "Jews know very well that Polish and international law will not allow them to get money from Poland [...] They know that the only way to get money from Poland is to circumvent the law or create their own Jewish law."
On The YouTube Channels Of Current And Former "National Media" Journalists – "The Germans And The Jews Invented The Idea That Poles Are Co-Responsible For The Holocaust, In Order To Extort Financial Claims From Poland"
The YouTube channel of the "Media Narodowe [National Media]" initiative, run by the Polish ultranationalist "Ruch Narodowy [National Movement]" party, which is partly financed by the state budget, uploaded on January 25, 2023, a video interview with Baliński, in which he discussed his latest book, titled The Judeans Are Closing In On Us – About Post-Jewish Property in Poland. Baliński stated about his book: "I am writing about the Jewish claims they forced on Poland and how to defend ourselves against them [...] The Germans and the Jews invented the idea that Poles are co-responsible for the Holocaust, in order to extort financial claims from Poland [...] Poland should lead the attack [on the Jews]; secondly, we should carry out the exhumations in Jedwabne [...]" He is referring to a mass grave of Jews murdered during a 1941 pogrom in the Polish town of Jedwabne. Polish antisemites allege that the grave contains evidence that Germans, not Poles, were the perpetrators of the crime. The grave was never exhumated out of respect for Jewish tradition, which prohibits exhumation. In the second part of the interview, host and guest talked about modern-day Polish-Israeli relations.
Baliński said, on the YouTube channel of Anna Mandela, an ultra-conservative former journalist for Media Narodowe, commenting on the deterioration of Polish-Israeli relations in 2021: "It is all about making Poland a 'Polin' [in an antisemitic discourse a term for the alleged Jewish occupation of Poland] they [Jews] do not even hide it, please note that the employees of the president's office, of course Jews themselves, during the celebration of this holiday Purim, held their hands over their penises as if they wanted to say that they do not want to be circumcised a second time. It is obvious that only Jews and other minorities can work in the president's office, there is no place for Poles there [...] All events on the border with Belarus [refers to the migrant crossings of the Polish-Belarusian border in 2021] are to lead to defense and implementation of the 'Polin' project [...] are not about the influx of migrants to Poland, but about replacing the population of Poland."
Commenting on the deterioration of Polish-Israeli relations in 2022, on the YouTube channel of the ultra-conservative former journalist of "Media Narodowe" Anna Mandela, Baliński said,: "This game the Israeli and Jewish side [engages in] not for the first time: in 2018, a media skirmish also broke out, and the amendment to the Act on the Institute of National Remembrance broke out, no matter what was the topic of that case, what is important are the mechanisms that are the same as now [...] Poland is implementing Israel's plan to worsen Polish-Jewish relations [...] the point is to raise emotions around the topic of returning heirless Jewish property.
On Pro-Russian And Neo-Fascist YouTube Channels, Balinski Describes "International Jewish Conspiracy To Extort Money From Poland" And "The Fact That Poland Is Succumbing To The Jews – We Help Ukraine Only To Defend Jewish Businesses In Ukraine"
The antisemitic pro-Russian channel of the "Centrum Edukacyjne Polska [Educational Center Poland] – CEP" published on YouTube a promotional video for Baliński's book The Judeans [i.e., Jews] Are Closing In On Us – About Post-Jewish Property in Poland. Balinski says: "Poland spends billions of dollars to help Ukraine; there are reasons to believe that part of this money is being sent to Israel or to Ukrainians of you-know-which [i.e., Jewish] descent, I write more about it in my book [...] Poland is quietly buying large amounts of gold in order to pay the you-know-which nation [...] because the president of the central bank in Poland is of you-know-which origin [...] the purpose of the Jews is to provoke anti-Semitism among Poles by accusing Poles of being accomplices in anti-Semitism."
On September 27, 2022, the "Chrobry Szlak [The Route of the Brave]" YouTube channel, run by Polish neo-Fascist Kamil Klimczak, uploaded a video interview with Baliński about the "international Jewish conspiracy to extort money from Poland" and "the fact that Poland is succumbing to the Jews, we help Ukraine only to defend Jewish businesses in Ukraine."
The full text of this post is available to DTTM subscribers.
If you are a subscriber, log in here to read this report.
For information on the required credentials to access this material, visit the DTTM subscription page
