Also in 2008 , the Polish ambassador sent an official protest to the Press Complaints Commission about '' The Times '' . On 26 July 2008 , Giles Coren published a comment piece with the ethnic slur ' Polack ' used to describe Polish immigrants . He accused Poland of complicity in the six million Jewish deaths of The Holocaust , prompting not only an official letter of complaint to '' The Times '' , but also an early day motion in the UK parliament , followed by an editorial in '' The Economist . '' The ambassador , Tuge-Erecinska , explained that the article was " unsupported by any basic historic or geographic knowledge , " and that " the issue of Polish-Jewish relations has been unfairly and deeply falsified " by Coren 's " aggressive remarks " and " contempt " . Coren reacted by telling '' The Jewish Chronicle '' : " '' Fuck the Poles '' " . The case has been referred to the European Court of Human Rights . However , the case was unsuccessful as Poles are not classified as an ethnic minority . The editor of '' The Jewish Chronicle '' , Stephen Pollard , commented on 6 August 2009 : " There are few things more despicable than anti-Semitism , but here 's one of them : using a false charge of anti-Semitism for political gain . " On 6 October 2009 , Stephen Fry was interviewed by Jon Snow on '' Channel 4 News '' as a signatory of a letter to then-Conservative Party leader David Cameron expressing concern about the party 's relationship with the right-wing Polish Law and Justice Party in the European Parliament . During the interview , Fry stated : " There has been a history , let 's face it , in Poland of a right-wing Catholicism which has been deeply disturbing for those of us who know a little history , and remember which side of the border Auschwitz was on ... " The remark prompted a complaint from the Polish Embassy in London , as well as an editorial in '' The Economist '' and criticism from British Jewish historian David Cesarani . Fry has since posted an apology on his personal weblog , in which he stated : " It was a rubbishy , cheap and offensive remark that I have been regretting ever since ... I take this opportunity to apologize now . " On 30 October 2009 , the Chief Rabbi of Poland , Michael Schudrich , complained about this new British political row playing on a " ' false and painful stereotype that all Poles are antisemitic ' , whereas the truth was that the problem was around the same there as elsewhere in Europe . " In January 2014 , a Polish man , whose helmet was emblazoned with the flag of Poland , claimed he was attacked by a group of fifteen men outside a pub in Dagenham , London . Photos were taken of him and his motorbike . The victim blamed xenophobic speeches of the Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron . During the same month in Belfast there was seven attacks on Polish houses within ten days , in which stones and bricks were thrown at the windows
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