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Members of Solidarity's center-right bloc, led by Solidarity founder Lech Walesa, claim to represent nationalist and Catholic in- terests and are increasingly identifying members of the center- left bloc, led by Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki, as Jews. In particular, say the spe- cialists, anti-Semitic elements within Walesa's group are, erroneously, labelling Mazowiecki and Labor Minister Jacek Kuron as Jews. They are also poin- ting out, correctly this time, that two leading Mazowiecki supporters —Bronislaw Geremek, chairman of the Citizen's Parliamentary Caucus, and Adam Michnik, editor of the pro-Solidarity daily Gazeta Wyborcza — are of Jewish origin. In addition to the "alarming nature of these developments," say the in- stitute's specialists, Dr. Lukasz Hirszowicz and Krystyna Sieradzka, "is the fact that the new Walesa team supports the idea of making overtures towards right- wing groups who give prominence to anti- Semitism and xenophobia in their platforms and pro- paganda." They note that Walesa, who aspires to be president of Poland, last month at- tempted to force Michnik to resign as editor of Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's most in- fluential newspaper, after having succeeded in remov- ing Geremek from his ad- visory council. Shortly after the unsuc- cessful bid to unseat Michnik became known, Walesa acknowledged that he had heard "rumours about waging a war against Jews who allegedly have taken over all the key posts in Poland." In a statement that is regarded as an attempt to pre-empt charges of anti- Semitism, Walesa said: "I have never been anti- Jew- Any., N•.....ary Sr, SU., CARA* Dataanos A Ur Aro* 1...5,1.w ,RRANIY.IERT. ish and I do not think that the Jews in Poland today are a problem or that they have harmed Poland. Most of these people," he added, "have been building Poland and they have made great achievements." Meanwhile, the growing political struggle in Poland has served as a cover for the proliferation of anti-Semitic publications, including the notorious Tsarist forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The publications, which are publicly sold near the Warsaw University and in a church bookstore in Warsaw's central Zagorna Street, also include two new Polish versions of the Pro- tocols. Another group of publica- tions combines anti- Semitism with anti- Communism. One example of this is The Grave-Diggers of Russia, which first ap- peared in the early years of the Weimar Republic. The booklet contains caricatures of Russian revolutionary leaders and purports to dem- onstrate that Bolsheviks are "the messengers of Jewish stock-exchange dealers around the world." Yet another new anti- Semitic publication is Fran- ciszek Wolny's The Truth About the Carmelite Sisters Convent in Auschwitz, which accuses Jews of conducting a hate campaign against the Carmelite sisters in par- ticular and the Roman Catholic Church in general. Meanwhile, in the Polish - city of Szczecin, author Zdzislaw Zalewski has pro- duced a book claiming that the Jewish population of Poland is 700,000 (rather than the estimated 5,000-6,000) and charges that they constitute a grave threat to the Polish nation and its "true religion," Catholicism. The proliferation of anti- Semitic literature is regard- ed as part of a wider phenomenon and directly related to the resurgence of religious and nationalist organizations. A recent arti- cle in the liberal Polish Catholic weekly Tygodnik Po wszechnydescribed the manifestation of anti- Semitic tracts as "a black current" and rejected the view that they constituted as abberation or that they were limited in scope. The article expressed "true and profound sadness" that they had apparently "escaped the attention of the church hierarchy," and add- ed: "A statement from the episcopate in this matter seems indispensable." Experts on Central and East European affairs sharp- ly disagree over the implica- tions for Jews of the emer- ging new order in Europe. Addressing a conference sponsored by the Institute of Jewish Affairs in London last week, Professor Antony Polonsky, head of the In- stitute of Polish Jewish Studies at Oxford Univer- sity, called on Western corn- unities to assist in the