Scratch a Polish antisemite, and you will find an anti-American. Scratch a Polish anti-American, and hostility to Israel soon surfaces. In little more than a week, Polish politics has offered three reminders, and only one came from the far Right.

On Oct. 10, a Polish YouTube channel released recordings of Grzegorz Braun, a right-wing member of the European Parliament charged in August with Holocaust denial, calling the office of President Karol Nawrocki a “Judenrat.” Nawrocki is the Polish politician President Donald Trump calls “my friend.” Braun is the man who put out the Hanukkah candles in Poland’s parliament with a fire extinguisher and told a radio host that “Auschwitz with gas chambers is, unfortunately, fake.” In 2020, he told parliament that Poland was under “Jewish-American” trusteeship. In Braun’s worldview, Jews and Americans form a single occupying power.