Academic freedom under threat in Poland

Academics in Poland have hit out against a government decision to withhold funding for the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, after the renowned Holocaust scholar and Director of the Polish Centre for Holocaust Research, Barbara Engelking said Polish Jews received little support from their fellow citizens in the Second World War.

The government says it will not fund a research institute that employs “people who slander Poles”, but academics in Poland and beyond are raising the alarm over what they see a direct threat to academic freedom.

The CAS has issued a statement in support of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

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