Stanisław Michalkiewicz

Who is Stanisław Michalkiewicz?

Stanisław Michalkiewicz is a Polish extreme right wing political commentator, lawyer and politician. He graduated in 1969 from Maria Curie-Skłodowska University with a law degree. In 1972 he completed postgraduate studies at the University of Warsaw. He publishes columns and articles in several newspapers and magazines, such as Najwyższy Czas!, Powściągliwość i Praca, Nasza Polska, Nasz Dziennik, Gazeta Polska, Dziennik Polski, Niezależna Gazeta Polska, Goniec and others. He wrote several sociopolitical books. His feature articles are transmitted by Polskie Radio Program I, Radio Maryja and TV channel Telewizja Trwam. In 1987 he co-founded Ruch Polityki Realnej which subsequently transformed into the Real Politics Union. He served as the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of Real Politics Union.

Between 1991 and 1993, he served as a judge at the State Tribunal of the Republic of Poland.

On 27 March 2006 speaking on Catholic Radio Maryja, he made allegedly anti-Semitic remarks when he claimed "Jews are trying to force a ransom from our government which they covertly call restitution". Michalkiewicz also said the country was being "humiliated" by Jews "at the site of the former death camp Auschwitz" and in April, 2006, was reported in Gazeta Wyborcza as stating that "men from Judea ... are trying to surprise us from behind", and referring to the World Jewish Congress as "a main firm in the Holocaust Industry". Michalkiewicz responded by calling Gazeta Wyborcza "an unusual example of the Jewish fifth column in Poland" and "a Jewish newspaper for Poles". He was charged with insulting the Jewish community. On August 28, however, prosecutors dropped the charges. Michalkiewicz left Radio Maryja, which by its opponents is considered to have a history of broadcasting anti-Semitic statements, to work for a public radio network, Polskie Radio.