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Polonica.net is a Polish right-wing web portal established in 2002 and endorsed by the Polish Catholic National Resistance Movement Against Judaisation and Depolonization, the Polish Patriotic Union and the Worldwide Movement of Catholic National Avant-garde.

The web portal presents articles (mainly written by Polish Catholic priest Henryk Jankowski) propagating anti-Semitism, as well as a "List of Polish Jews"^[1] , who changed their surnames to ones that sound more Polish, and are governing Poland as a politicians, businessmen, journalists etc. The list shows apparently real Jewish surnames of well-known Polish persons next to their new Polish surnames, including their biographies going back to the period before the Second World War. Journalist Adam Michnik, historian and policitian Bronisław Geremek, former president Aleksander Kwaśniewski and former prime minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki appear on this list.

This list was the basis for a poster titled "Żydzi won z katolickiego kraju"(Jews, get out of the Catholic country!) see poster , which was displayed in Koszalin in 2007 with the aim of encouraging people to see an exhibition on Anti-Semitism. The exhibition caused great controversies and was closed by police^[2].

A statement that Poland and its economy remained taken control by persons of the Jewish origin is a thematic predominant feature of the service. On the main page of the web portal one can read that these persons are aspiring for destroying the Polish tradition, as well as definitely they are against a social conservatism and a strong position of the Roman Catholic Church. According to the authors of the Polonica.net, persons of the Jewish origin are the main threat to Poland and its independence, therefore the web portal supports the idea of expelling Jews from Poland.

In the section "Red Resumes", columnists of the service present true resumes of Polish politicians including their real Jewish surnames. For example ex-president of Poland Aleksander Kwaśniewski is presented as Izaak Stoltzman^[3], Jacek Kuroń as Icek Kordblum^[4] The service often uses term Żydokomuna (Judeo-communism) pointing that many Polish communists were in fact of Jewish origin.

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