Chanuka in Poland. US Ambassador responds to Karol Nawrocki's decision

This year there will be no burning of Khanuk candles at the Presidential Palace. Karol Nawrocki made a circumstantial decision. The details he wants to know... US Ambassador to Poland, Tom Rose.

On Monday, president Nawrocki's reluctance to celebrate the judaic Hanukkah Presidential Palace informed “Rzeczpospolita”, citing concern for the opinion of the electorate of the head of state. The diary stated that the judaic communities did not receive invitations from the Presidential Palace to the celebration – as was usually the case in erstwhile years, regardless of who the president was.
Karol Nawrocki spoke about the fact that the burning of Khanuk candles would not happen during the election campaign. – I take my views and my attachment to Christian values seriously – he said in 1 of the interviews, adding that he is celebrating Christian holidays.

President Karol Nawrocki's decision was addressed by the US Ambassador to Poland, Tom Rose, himself a Jew. Rose described on page X a terrorist attack committed by muslim extremists in Sydney, Australia. They shot up Jews celebrating Hanukkah on the beach, killing respective people. Under this entry, 1 of the netizens asked for an assessment of the president's decision. Tom Rose replied, “I just heard about it – I will ask.”

At the same time, he suggested that the festival of Hanukkah could be especially close to Poles, due to the past of the Machabeans. “The past of Hanukkah is not just a judaic story. He speaks of all nation that is forced to defend its religion and character, that freedom needs constant vigilance, that identity, erstwhile lost, can only seldom be recovered," he said. “Over the centuries, Poland has chosen opposition alternatively of erasure, identity alternatively of surrender and disappearance,” he wrote, pointing out that this is simply a circumstantial “machabe instinct”.

Sources: rp.pl, X.com

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