WARSAW (EJP)---The Union of Jewish religious communities in Poland has denounced a tv election campaign spot by an extreme-right alliance suggesting Polish lives have been put in danger in Iraq and Afghanistan to serve Jewish and US interests.

On Sunday, the League of Polish Families' TV spot showed Poland President Lech Kaczynski, first at a meeting with President Bush, and then with Orthodox rabbis at Israel’s Western Wall in Jerusalem where he wears a kippa or yarmulke.

The words "Our allies" are flashed across the screen, followed by: "They put us in the line of attack."

The shot ends with the scenes of an explosion and bloody images of those who fell victims to the attack.

A grim voice then warns: "It is our nation that is going to fall victim. Let the nation decide."

900 Polish soldiers are currently serving in Iraq.

Poland is holding general elections Sunday.

According to opinion polls, Liberal Donald Tusk's Civic Platform and Jaroslaw Kaczynski's Law and Justice party enjoy the most support, meaning one of these two men is all but certain to be the next prime minister. Former President Aleksander Kwasniewski's Left and Democrats is running in third place, and has long been considered a possible coalition partner to Civic Platform if it wins. The League of Polish Families, which served as a coalition partner in the conservative government of Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski before being dismissed, is fighting for its political survival. Most opinion polls show it with between 2 percent and 4 percent support — below the 5 percent threshold needed to enter parliament.

The Board of the Union of Jewish Religious Communities in Poland said that the use of such materials during an election campaign is "highly inappropriate.”

"The Western Wall is the only surviving remnant of the Jerusalem Temple – which has great significance not only for the Jewish people but also for Christians," Piotr Kadlcik, the union’s president, said.

"It is a place of frequent pilgrimages, the late Pope John Paul II was also one of those who prayed at the Wall. Using the visits at the Western Wall as an element of political rivalry is at least inappropriate," he added.

Roman Giertych, leader of the League of Polish Families, defended the tv spot, saying it was not anti-Semitic while insisting there is a connection between the war in Iraq and Israel.

"One can be against the war in Iraq without being an anti-Semite," Giertych said.

"This ad shows the cooperation between Poland and the U.S., and Poland and Israel — we have a right to criticize it," he said.

"The war in Iraq threatens our country, and this is why the Polish troops should be pulled out from Iraq as soon as possible."

Poland’s chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, noted that the sequence of images was laid out in such a way as to provoke a negative feeling about President Kaczynski being at the Western Wall.

Jacek Kurski, an MP of the governing Law and Justice party, slammed the spot as "a pathetic masquerade" that was "seasoned with some anti-Semitism."

It is not the first time that the League of Polish Families, which served as a coalition partner in the conservative government of Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski before being dismissed, faces accusations of anti-Semitism.

Giertych’s father and party founder, Maciej Giertych, who is member of the European Parliament, was reprimanded earlier this year by the EU body for publishing a brochure that described the Jewish people as a "tragic community" that tends to settle "among the rich," while still choosing to live "in apartheid from the surrounding communities."

The brochure beared the parliament logo.