This is promising. I have heard that Poland has worked very hard to erase its anti-Semitism, and this is a major step towards proving it.
WARSAW – A Polish Catholic priest apologized on Wednesday for allowing the broadcast of anti-Semitic statements on Radio Maryja, part of a powerful religious media empire he runs.
Radio Maryja ran an opinion piece by a nationalist commentator in March that said Jewish groups sought bribes from Poland in the early 1990s in exchange for their support in the country’s efforts to join NATO.
[…] “We did not mean to hurt anyone’s feelings. We respect each person regardless of nationality, age, race or religion,” said Father Tadeusz Rydzyk, whose radio became a mouthpiece for the ruling conservative Law and Justice party in recent months.
“If someone felt touched by the comments of one of our known Polish commentators, we feel very sorry,” he said.
Radio Maryja came under fire from media ethics and other rights groups for allowing xenophobic and anti-Semitic statements on its programs and it was rebuked by the Vatican for not respecting the church’s political neutrality.
And there aren’t any weasel words in the apology, either.
I have yet to find a Muslim news outlet that has ever apologized for anti-Semitism.