http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/eu...s-a8052256.html



Polish far-right demonstrators carried signs saying 'Pray for Islamic Holocaust' at weekend march

“White Europe” streaked across another banner, the Associated Press reported - as about 60,000 people chanted and marched through Warsaw in an annual gathering of Europe's far-right movements, which have by now grown to dwarf the official version of Poland's independence day.

11 November marks Poland's celebration of its freedom from imperial rule in 1918. That freedom was interrupted over the following century by brutal occupations, first by Nazis,

In the 21st century, a group called All-Polish Youth, which the AP reported is named after a radical anti-Semitic group from the 1930s, began hosting a competing 11 November celebration in Warsaw.

It began as a small thing, Politico reported. No more than a few hundred people showed up to the march in 2010, though the numbers soon grew into the thousands.

In some years, the spectacle turned bloody - as when masked marchers threw rocks, flares and paving slabs at police in 2014, according to the BBC.

But in 2015, the conservative Law and Justice Party took power in Poland, fuelled in part by anti-immigration politics that helped put other right-wing parties in power throughout much of Europe.

By all accounts, the 11 November rallies since then have been very large and fairly peaceful.

There was some violence Saturday, the AP reported, when nationalists pushed and kicked a group of women holding a banner that said “Stop Fascism.” But that was the only such report. A heavy police force kept the small assembly of counter-protesters separated from the far-right march.