A Polish politician who angrily sprayed a fire extinguisher to put out Hanukkah candles inside Poland's parliament building yesterday has been ruthlessly mocked by the Jewish community in the city of Lodz.
In a video clip shared on social media, a group of Jewish men in high spirits are seen holding a fire extinguisher aloft and passing it to one another as they danced, laughing and poking fun at Grzegorz Braun's stunt yesterday.
The atmosphere was jovial, with onlookers clapping and moving along to traditional Jewish music, before one participant feigned outrage and jokingly enacted throwing the fire extinguisher at the camera.
The footage has racked up hundreds of thousands of views amid the outcry at Braun, who has been widely criticized for the anti-Semitic act after he described the Hanukkah as 'satanic' and said he was restoring 'normality' by extinguishing the candles.
The right-wing, pro-Russian member of Poland's Confederation party was thrown out of Poland's Sejm after ripping the red extinguisher from the wall of the government building and blasting the menorah, filling the air with a lingering haze.
But supporters of the lawmaker leapt to his defence, with an online fundraiser drumming up more than £14,000 after the MP was docked six months of salary, plus another three months of half salary, for his actions.
A lawyer representing Braun who organized the fundraising drive posted on Twitter: 'The Sejm should only use Polish symbols and it is not a place of religious worship.
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