On 10 September, Grzegorz Braun, a Member of the European Parliament, took a hammer to a monument commemorating members of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in the village of Białystok in Poland’s Lublin voivodeship. He then publicized the vandalism himself, turning an act of destruction into political theatre.

This was not an isolated outburst. Braun has built a career around intimidation, hooliganism, Holocaust denial and hostility toward Ukrainians, Jews and LGBT people.

Consider that record.

In January 2023, Braun entered a regional court in Kraków and tore down a Christmas tree decorated with Ukrainian and European symbols and LGBT colours, which he then tossed into a garbage bin. The European Parliament documented this incident.

In December 2023, Braun entered the Polish parliament during a Hanukkah celebration and used a fire extinguisher to douse the candles of a menorah. He then hurled insults at the Jews assembled there. The European Parliament recorded that too.

In July 2025, Braun........

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