Burning Judas, deriding Jews: Antisemitic Easter traditions persist in Europe – Media and diplomatic uproars are not dissuading locals in the Netherlands and Poland from putting on religious events centered around anti-Jewish sentiment | Timesofisrael

At a festive procession in Pruchnik, a small town in southeastern Poland, townsmen watch the ceremonial burning of a kippah-wearing effigy they’ve named Judas as part of a Christian event. In a small Dutch municipality, dozens of men wearing matching attire march through their city’s streets singing of the Jews’ murder of Jesus Christ.
These medieval-sounding scenes aren’t anecdotes from Europe’s rich history of antisemitism: Both are contemporary, yearly Easter events.