30 November 2006
Ten Polish intellectuals have filed a lawsuit against Leszek Bubel, a major publisher of anti-Semitic tracts. Signatories to the suit include Poland's former foreign minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski and filmmaker Kazimierz Kuz, according to a recent report in the daily newspaper "Gazeta Wyborcza". Bubel has been prosecuted several times for promoting hatred of a racial group, but courts have acquitted him. The lawsuit, the first of its kind in Poland, contends that Bubel's anti-Jewish campaigns "violate the public good" and are an act against all Polish citizens.