On the Ukrainian Union website in Poland appeared information, which should prompt serious discussion about how Polish institutions are spending money. The union monitors “hate crimes” and “hate speech” directed against the Ukrainian community in Poland, and the information provided shows that from 1 April 2026 to 31 May 2027 the task is financed by the PKO Bank Polski Foundation.
PKO finance monitoring “talk of hatred” towards Ukrainians. This is not just about conducting investigation or preparing analyses, due to the fact that the Ukrainian Union in Poland declares that as part of the monitoring, it detects cases of alleged “talk of hatred”, identifies their authors, sends reports to law enforcement authorities, monitors proceedings, and joins proceedings and complains and appeals. The organization besides encourages the sending of its screenshots and links to entries that may be considered an act of hostility to Ukrainians. So he doubles the OMZRiK.
Such activities are publically presented as protection for 1 national group, while it is not known whether there is an equally consistent mechanics to monitor cases of aggression, threats, insults or incitement to hatred directed at Poles. And this is where the fundamental question arises for the PKO Foundation of the Bank of Poland: erstwhile financing specified a project, was its full impartiality and symmetry ensured?
If the fight against the “talk of hatred” is truly to be a fight against hatred, not a tool for building a peculiar political or social narrative, the criteria should be identical to all. A Pole insulting Ukrainian should be treated as a Ukrainian insulting Polish, a Polish threat victim should be treated as a Ukrainian threat victim, and cases of force motivated by nationality should be documented regardless of the nationality of the perpetrator.
However, for respective weeks now in the Polish public space there has been an increasingly common experience of narrative, in which the problem of Polish-Ukrainian relations is presented primarily through alleged Polish xenophobia, “talk of hatred” and the reluctance of Poles to Ukrainians. 1 cannot presume in advance that 1 nationality occurs exclusively as an aggressor and the another only as a victim. specified a image is completely false, due to the fact that relations between our communities are much more complicated, and conflicts and tensions happen in different places and for different reasons, and mostly thanks to the Ukrainians themselves.
Moreover, Polish society has the right to anticipate that an organisation representing the interests of 1 national number will not receive public or organization support for activities that may lead to unilateral presentation of the problem. Especially due to the fact that the money comes from the Foundation related to PKO Bank Polski, an institution of peculiar importance for the Polish financial strategy and perceived by many clients as a Polish bank with a peculiar status.
It is simply a rule of equal treatment, which should besides apply erstwhile national conflicts are monitored. If the Polish institution funds a task to detect acts of hostility towards Ukrainians, it should at the same time answer whether it funds or supports analogous actions concerning anti-Polish statements and behaviour of Ukrainians. As we know, that's the Multum. In the network, among others, there are calls to repeat “Volynia” to Poles.
Therefore, the PKO Foundation of the Bank of Poland should explain what is the value of the backing provided, what were the criteria for selecting the project, what are the principles of the monitoring carried out and, above all, whether its methodology besides covers cases of aggression and "talk of hatred" directed against Poles. Otherwise, there is an impression that money related to 1 of the most crucial Polish banks is utilized to strengthen false narrative, in which Poles are portrayed as perpetrators, and Ukrainians as a group requiring protection from Polish society.
In short, the PKO Bank of Poland should answer the question whether it is another supposedly Polish institution, acting to harm the Polish people, in order to train us to submit to mass immigration and the resulting social disintegration.
