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I've been reading lots of commentary made even before the book came out. Unfortunately, the voices of the right are very strong and very reactionary. Instead of talking about the antisemitism, they try different methods to made the issue about something else. Usually it's about how Jan Gross creates an "unfair image" of Poles. For example, I saw one asshole on TV talking about this. The other person on the "debate" said that many facts about pogroms like the Kielce pogrom are well documented and are considered historic facts. At which point the asshole says something like "Yeah. We know about this, it was in the papers, etc. So Jan Gross didn't publish any new historic facts. So why did he publish this book?" And further giving viewers the idea that, if there is nothing new historically here, the reason behind the book is to bash Polish people. That's the level of discussion which well-known journalists bring to the debate.

Even better is to try to downplay the issue or distract people like in Rzeczpospolita paper recently. On one page you had a scathing condemnation of the book and on the next a whole page article claiming that Stalin was the worst anti-semite going. The article about Stalin had lots of truth to it, but in the context, it was clear that the role of the article was to show that there were even worse anti-semites than Poles. This has an important subcontext, which is only clear if you follow right-wing articles and thought in Poland. Some right-wing historians have tried to explain pogroms as not being against Jews, but against communists, claiming that Jews were very populous amongst the communists. What people bred on right-wing propaganda are supposed to put together therefore is an image of the Jew and his friends the leftists as hypocritical Pole-bashers who unfairly focus on anti-semitism in Poland when it was much worse under Stalin.