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Narodowe Odrodzenie Polski (NOP) (National Rebirth of Poland) is a far-right Third positionist, nationalist, and anti-Semitic political party in Poland. It is a member of European National Front and a co-founder of International Third Position.

History

The NOP was founded in 1981 . The NOP claims to be the reincarnation of National Radical Camp, the pre-war nationalist youth organisation, which was banned in 1934. In 1985, NOP founded the underground publishing house Jestem Polakiem, which published more than 100 books, brochures and magazines ; such as Szczerbiec (the name of the Polish royal coronation sword), which lists neofascists Derek Holland and Roberto Fiore among the members of its editorial board, Młodzież Narodowa (National Youth), Myśl (The Thought), and Biuletyn NOP. The publishing house was closed after 1989 and the collapse of the Communist regime. During the Communist era, NOP militants took part in protests and student strikes against communistic regime in Poland. In 1992, the NOP registered as a political party.

The movement is a co-founder of the International Third Position which is a forum of political groups presenting similar ideological orientation. In 2001 NOP membership in Poland was estimated at 500, consisting mainly of neo-Nazi skinheads · .

In 2001 NOP tried to enter parliamentary politics for the first time. Newly created NOP front organization the New Forces Alliance (Sojusz Nowych Sil) joined nationalist electoral bloc Alternative Social Movement (Ruch Spoleczny Alternatywa, RSA). Among the NOP candidates were Marcin Radzewicz, former singer of the skinhead band Oiczyzna and the leader of openly neo-Nazi National Socialist Front (Front Narodowo-Socjaliczny). RSA gained just below 0.5% of the votes and the alliance was dissolved.

In the 2005 Polish parliamentary elections, it received 7,376 votes out of 11,804,676 votes that were cast (0.06% of the vote). In the 2006 self-government regional elections, it received 41,652 votes in 41 of 88 districts that were cast (0,64% globally but 1,3% per district). In the 2007 Polish parliamentary elections, it received 42,407 votes in 4 of 31 districts. ·

Views

Szczerbiec published articles in support of the Society of St. Pius X in the 1990s.

Influences on the NOP's views have been Polish philosophers or politicians like Feliks Koneczny, Roman Dmowski.

In 2006, the NOP was involved in campaigning to free convicted British historian David Irving from prison in Austria, and produced a poster that states, "David Irving - Uwolnić prawdę" ("David Irving - Free the truth"). The party also expressed support for the bombing of Israel at the time of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, with a poster image stating, "Bomby na Izrael - Już czas !!!" ("Bombs against Israel - it's about time!!!"). On August 13, 2006, NOP leader Adam Gmurczyk published a declaration on behalf of the NOP Executive Council titled Izrael musi zostać zniszczony! (Israel must be destroyed!), calling for the international military takeover of Israel, and offering to put administrative control of Jerusalem in the hands of Pope Benedict XVI, and his successors.

The NOP also protests against abortion, which it claims to be "the biggest crime of today's world". The movement is also openly homophobic, conducting a campaign called Zakaz Pedałowania (Forbid Homosexuality) against the LGBT rights movement. On 17 May, 2006 in Toruń NOP organized a counter-demonstration against LGBT rights supporters public meeting. NOP members chanted slogans, including "gas the queers" (pedały do gazu), "there will be a baton for each queer face" (znajdzie się kij na pedalski ryj). ·

Party program

The official NOP's program includes:

• Interest of the whole (Polish) nation is always before everything - social class, religion beliefs, skin color or politic views.
• Minimal government bureaucracy.
• It wants to end conscription and to introduce a voluntary army.
• The party is pro-life and thus opposes euthanasia and abortion.
• It is against same-sex marriage and LGBT adoption.
• Strong opposition to EU and NATO.
• Decommunization and Lustration.
• It postulates a return of capital punishment (for murderers, rapists, pedophiles, trade of narcotics, organized crime and for acting against the state of Poland) also big penalties for anything against moral acting such as corruption.
• It is against any form of socialism and liberalism on the moral and economic way of life.
• National Rebirth of Poland says that the party's ideology can't fit in any form of left-wing and right-wing so it calls itself the "Third Position movement".

Anti-semitism and xenophobia

• The NOP is stated to be an anti-Semitic organisation by a large number of organisations worldwide. ·  ·  ·  ·  ·

• According to the British historian, Dr John Pollard, neo-Nazi element in the NOP, their racism and homophobia continue to give rise to concern in other member countries of the European Union.

• In March 2000, in Lodz, Swastikas and the slogan "Jews out!" was spraypainted on the home of Marek Edelman, who was the deputy commander in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and the last of the leaders of the uprising still alive. The incident was condemned by the president and prime minister of Poland who sent Edelman letters of support and apology.

• The Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish civil rights advocacy group, states that the NOP is an openly anti-Semitic extremist organization.

• According toThe Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism NOP is promoting violent forms of neo-fascism and antisemitism, including Holocaust review.

• According to the magazine The Warsaw voice, the manifesto of the National Revival of Poland which contains a sentence stating that "Jews will be removed from Poland, and their possessions will be confiscated" is taken directly from Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf. The magazine also claims that the official greeting gesture used in the party is the Nazi-like gesture of the raised arm.

• According to The Jewish Press, On April 14, 2007 in Krakow anti-Semitic slogans were shouted and Fascist-like gestures made by the participants of the NOP demonstration. Investigation made by the Public Prosecutor’s Office was discontinued on November 26, 2007 as no perpetrators were identified and the case was not classified as an offense.

• According to European Roma Rights Centre on July 3, 1998 NOP vandalised Roma community centre in Łódź. Along with racist graffiti swastikas were sprayed on the office walls. The perpetrators also left behind their signature as NOP - Narodowe Odrodzenie Polski. During the same night same group reportedly vandalised the premises of the Jehovah's Witnesses religious group.

References

1. « Right-Wing Extremism in Poland Gathers Momentum », Deutsche Welle, 4 March 2006
2. ^ Michael Shafir Varieties of Antisemitism in Post-communist East Central Europe: Motivations and Political Discourse
3. Poland 2001-2, by Stephen Roth Institute
4. ^ Poland 2000-1 by Stephen Roth Institute
5. Cas Mudde (2005). Racist Extremism in Central and Eastern Europe. London: Routledge. p. 162. ISBN 0415355931. OCLC 55228719.
6. Elections 2005 on Gazeta Wyborcza website (en)
7. Elections 2005 on Gazeta Wyborcza website (en)
8. « Na kłopoty Bednarski, czyli znakomity wynik wyborczy NOP », NOP's website, 22 October 2007 (pl)
9. « Wielka Brytania: Faszystowsko-klerykalny NOP zagrożeniem dla Zjednoczonego Królestwa », Searchlight, June 2007
10. O potrzebie organizacji narodu - część druga, on NOP's website
11. « Życiorys Romana Dmowskiego » on NOP's website
12. http://www.nop.org.pl/img/irving.jpg
13. http://www.nop.org.pl/img/bomby.jpg
14. Narodowe Odrodzenie Polski, Izrael musi zostać zniszczony!
15. « Zakaz Pedałowania » on NOP's website (pl)
16. United Nations Human Rights Council
17. Amnesty International Polska
18. NOP's official program(pl)
19. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2006, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor US State Dept.
20. International Religious Freedom Report 2007 US State Dept.
21. European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) Third report on Poland Adopted on 17 December 2004
22. Poland 2004, by Stephen Roth Institute
23. « Plakatem w żyda », Dziennik Wschodni, 17 January 2006
24. John Pollard ‘Clerical Fascism’: Context, Overview and Conclusion in: Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, Vol. 8, No. 2, p. 11, June 2007
25. Anti-Semitic Incidents - March 2000, by the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
26. Poland: Democracy and the Challenge of Extremism, by Anti-Defamation League, 2006
27. Poland 2006, by Stephen Roth Institute
28. ^ RACE: Fighting Fascism, Warsaw Voice, 31 July 2003
29. « Anti-Semitic Incidents In Poland », The Jewish Press, March 26, 2008
30. http://www.errc.org/cikk.php?cikk=88

External links

• Official website NOP
• Nacjonalista.pl web portal of Polish nationalist movement
• Szczerbiec, newspaper of NOP

• Political parties in Poland
• Nationalist parties
• Political parties established in 1981