Braun used a fire extinguisher to douse a lit Hanukkah menorah in the parliamentary halls. He declared he was “restoring a state of normality by putting an end to acts of satanic, racist triumphalism” and said, “The people participating in the Satanic cult should be ashamed.” He later adopted the fire extinguisher as his presidential campaign symbol and rallying slogan for what he called his “broad fire-extinguisher front.”
In January 2025, at the European Parliament session marking
International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 80th anniversary of the arrival of Soviet forces at
Auschwitz, Braun interrupted a minute of silence to shout,
“Let’s pray for the victims of the Jewish genocide in Gaza.”
The European Jewish Congress condemned it as “a vile display of antisemitism in the heart of European democracy.”
In July 2025, Braun stated in an interview on Poland’s Wnet radio that
“ritual murder is a fact, and such a thing as Auschwitz with its gas chambers is unfortunately a fake”. The interviewer immediately ended the broadcast, saying there “are limits to political cynicism and sensationalism.” Polish prosecutors launched a criminal investigation into whether Braun’s statements constituted denial of Nazi crimes.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum’s director condemned the remarks as
Holocaust denial under Polish law. In November 2025, outside
the Auschwitz memorial itself, Braun declared,
“Jews want to be super-humans in Poland, entitled to a better status, and the Polish police dance to their tune.”
The European Parliament has stripped Braun of immunity twice to face charges including inciting religious hatred against Jews, assaulting a gynecologist, attacking the Hanukkah ceremony,
disrupting a Holocaust lecture, and vandalizing an LGBT exhibition, with further requests still pending. In February 2026, Poland’s justice minister asked the Parliament to strip his immunity yet again to charge him with
Holocaust denial.
Yet Braun finished fourth with 6.3% in the first round of Poland’s 2025 presidential election, a result that shocked observers given his lack of institutional support. While the current political establishment treats him as a pariah, Grzegorz Braun has shattered the psychological barriers that once rendered certain truths about Jewish power unspeakable in European chambers. By enduring repeated legal attacks and institutional censorship, he is not merely acting as a solitary dissenter but is effectively walking so that a new generation of nationalist and anti-Zionist leaders in the Old Continent might one day fly.
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