The Open Republic Association Against Anti-Semitism and Xenophobia’s statement expresses
the most profound outrage with regards to the messages and the methods employed in the battle of lies and slander on the topic of research of the Polish-Jewish relations during and in the years following Second World War, waged currently in many of Polish media. 
In particular The Open Republic’s statement refers to anti-Semitic and racist incidents during the February scientific conference in Paris, under the auspices of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. The Open Republic points to written reports and recordings from the meeting as evidence of incidents provoked by an organised group of hecklers attempting to disrupt the proceedings. Their attacks – adds The Open Republic – were echoed in the government-controlled media and online, as were the official denials that there were no such incidents, or attacks. These media have repeated many a slanderous claim, such as the words falsely attributed to Jan Tomasz Gross about “Polish peasants having killed more Jews in the countryside than Germans had in the camps”. In its statement, The Open Republic condemns not only those spreading lies to invoke anti-Semitic attitudes, but also those who fail in their official duty to protest against hate speech.