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					<description><![CDATA[Faith Matters has raised its concerns with the Home Office after a member of the Polish community made us aware of their intention of a woman (Marta Czech) linked to a speaking event at a community venue on the 31st of May 2026. Faith Matters has continued to observe speakers from Poland who are attending [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="10966" data-permalink="https://www.faith-matters.org/marta-czech-speaker-whose-background-should-have-raised-concerns/image001-3/" data-orig-file="https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image001.jpg" data-orig-size="595,436" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="image001" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image001.jpg" data-large-file="https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image001.jpg" class="size-full wp-image-10966 aligncenter" src="https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image001.jpg" alt="" width="595" height="436" srcset="https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image001.jpg 595w, https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image001-273x200.jpg 273w, https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image001-362x265.jpg 362w, https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image001-325x238.jpg 325w, https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image001-130x95.jpg 130w, https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image001-423x310.jpg 423w" sizes="(max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Faith Matters raised its concerns with the Home Office that Marta Czech of the <a href="https://tvpworld.com/84580632/polands-far-right-party-expels-controversial-mep-over-presidential-bid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">far-right</a> Confederation of the Polish Crown (Konfederacja Korony Polskiej), intended to speak at a community venue in London on 31 May.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A member of the Polish community reached out to share their concerns with us in Faith Matters.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It should, however, concern communities that Czech appeared in a photograph with the notorious <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8glw6n547o" target="_blank" rel="noopener">far-right extremist</a> Janusz Waluś during his speaking engagement in September 2025. The South African government deported Waluś in 2024 after he spent 29 years in prison following the brutal, racist murder of the anti-Apartheid political activist <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/11/heros-welcome-janusz-walus-apartheid-hitman-chris-hani-poland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Hani</a>.  Waluś <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/04/13/white-suspect-belongs-to-extremists/60545e91-15e7-46ae-82d4-bb87c2b1fa73/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">belonged</a> to the <a href="https://omalley.nelsonmandela.org/index.php/site/q/03lv03445/04lv03446/05lv03453.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">militant</a> neo-Nazi Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging movement.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Dr Rafal Pankowski, a political scientist who leads the Never Again anti-racism group, <a href="https://www.ewn.co.za/2025/01/24/hani-killer-unrepentant" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> South African media last year that Waluś enjoyed “a hero&#8217;s welcome among the worst racists, the far-right nationalist groups in Poland.”</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><img decoding="async" data-attachment-id="10967" data-permalink="https://www.faith-matters.org/marta-czech-speaker-whose-background-should-have-raised-concerns/image004-2/" data-orig-file="https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image004.png" data-orig-size="598,669" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="image004" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image004-536x600.png" data-large-file="https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image004.png" class="size-full wp-image-10967 aligncenter" src="https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image004.png" alt="" width="598" height="669" srcset="https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image004.png 598w, https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image004-536x600.png 536w, https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image004-179x200.png 179w, https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image004-237x265.png 237w, https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image004-213x238.png 213w, https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image004-94x105.png 94w, https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image004-479x536.png 479w, https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image004-277x310.png 277w" sizes="(max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In November 2022, Czech attended a Confederation press conference captioned <em>Janusz Waluś na wolności! Koniec komuny? </em>– “Janusz Waluś is free! Is this the end of communism?”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">On X (formerly Twitter), Czech has posted AI-generated content depicting Black men as an existential danger, <a href="https://x.com/MartaAnnaCzech/status/2042587062633677153" target="_blank">captioned</a> “Stop the migrant invasion!” and the inclusion of a goat in the image evokes debasing and racist tropes about bestiality.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Czech has attended other anti-migrant events in Poland with similar inflammatory rhetoric of “invasion”.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">On Facebook, Czech uploaded a photo from an engagement event alongside a woman in a t-shirt that appears to show someone blocking Star of David symbols under an umbrella.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img decoding="async" data-attachment-id="10969" data-permalink="https://www.faith-matters.org/marta-czech-speaker-whose-background-should-have-raised-concerns/image006-2/" data-orig-file="https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image006.jpg" data-orig-size="602,452" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="image006" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image006-600x450.jpg" data-large-file="https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image006.jpg" class="size-full wp-image-10969 aligncenter" src="https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image006.jpg" alt="" width="602" height="452" srcset="https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image006.jpg 602w, https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image006-600x450.jpg 600w, https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image006-266x200.jpg 266w, https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image006-353x265.jpg 353w, https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image006-317x238.jpg 317w, https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image006-130x98.jpg 130w, https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image006-413x310.jpg 413w" sizes="(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">On Facebook in December 2024, Czech wrote: “It’s either Hanukkah or Christmas! There is no third option, and anyone who thinks otherwise is as mistaken as Speaker Szymon Hołownia! The Confederation of the Polish Crown calls on the Speaker to cease sectarian, occult, anti-Polish, and anti-humanitarian practices associated with Hanukkah in the Sejm. And if the Speaker has not yet learned what he is participating in and what he is allowing, President Grzegorz Braun will gladly educate him on the matter. Jews—hands off Gaza, and off our Sejm!”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img decoding="async" data-attachment-id="10968" data-permalink="https://www.faith-matters.org/marta-czech-speaker-whose-background-should-have-raised-concerns/image008-2/" data-orig-file="https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image008.png" data-orig-size="602,543" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="image008" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image008-600x541.png" data-large-file="https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image008.png" class="size-full wp-image-10968 aligncenter" src="https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image008.png" alt="" width="602" height="543" srcset="https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image008.png 602w, https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image008-600x541.png 600w, https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image008-222x200.png 222w, https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image008-294x265.png 294w, https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image008-264x238.png 264w, https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image008-116x105.png 116w, https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image008-594x536.png 594w, https://www.faith-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image008-344x310.png 344w" sizes="(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Other inflammatory and concerning social media posts <a href="https://x.com/MartaAnnaCzech/status/2059215198582366436" target="_blank">include</a> comparing LGBT+ communities to “deviants”.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Czech has also <a href="https://x.com/MartaAnnaCzech/status/2038755687807725700" target="_blank">promoted</a> pro-eugenics content.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Read More: <a href="https://www.faith-matters.org/why-the-home-office-must-stop-these-polish-far-right-politicians-from-entering-the-uk/">Why the Home Office Must Stop These Polish Far Right Politicians from Entering the U.K.</a></p>
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