During the debate in Poland on the Polish role in the Jedwabne pogrom, Nowak, writing in "Nasz Dziennik", dismissed Jan T. Gross as "the usual propaganda to get out of the Polish government money for the crimes committed in Poland by Germans, Soviets and criminals". Nowak argued against any acceptance of guilt by Poles, and expressed his (extreme) view that Jews should ask Poles for forgiveness over their "anti-Polish lies" and other "misdeeds".