A taxi driver in Warsaw kicked a passenger out of his cab after learning she was Jewish. As she repeatedly asked him to take her to her destination, the driver hurled harsh statements at her: “You’re Jewish, you kill people, I refuse to drive you, understand? You’re animals, not people.” He added that if he’d been told upfront she was Jewish, he wouldn’t have accepted the ride. “Tell whoever you want,” he said. As the passenger asked only to be allowed to file a complaint, he demanded, “Get out already!”
A Polish taxi driver in Warsaw discovered that his female passenger was Jewish.
“You are Jewish, you kill people. Because of this I refuse to drive you.”
The driver pulls over and tells the woman to walk.
He is also heard saying that “Jews are animals, not people.” pic.twitter.com/LX2Dkdvr5d
— James J. Marlow (@James_J_Marlow) August 19, 2026
The video the passenger recorded racked up tens of thousands of views on X, with users trying to identify the driver’s origin—he didn’t sound Polish. “Both are speaking Russian, but the driver speaks with a heavy accent. He might be a Chechen Muslim or something like that. Living in his own reality,” one user wrote. Others added: “He’s speaking Russian, with a Chechen accent,” “He doesn’t sound like a native.”
The incident comes amid a wave of Jew hatred that has intensified in recent years across Europe and in Poland in particular. Just months ago, in the Polish parliament, MP Konrad Berkowicz from the Confederation party displayed an Israeli flag with a swastika symbol on it during a speech. At the height of his remarks, he compared Israel to the Nazis and said, “It is the new Third Reich,” showing everyone the Israeli flag with the swastika on it.
Berkowicz’s incident isn’t an isolated case of Jew hatred in the country, but part of a disturbing trend of intensifying new Jew hatred in Poland, led by a young, conservative generation. A survey by the Ipsos Institute published last year showed that among young people aged 18-29, liberal parties are weakening, while the majority of votes (233 seats out of 460) go to parties with distinct patterns of Jew hatred, like the Confederation party and the KKP party.
These parties promote far-right nationalism that marks Jews as an undesirable group. Key figures like Grzegorz Braun from KKP (known for the menorah extinguishing incident) define Judaism as “the religion of Satan.”