Tag: Holocaust Law
Polish diplomat fired after calling country’s Holocaust speech law ‘stupid’
A Polish diplomat has reportedly been fired after calling his own government’s laws regarding speech centered around the Holocaust “stupid.”
Jaroslaw Nowak, the plenipotentiary for contacts with the Jewish Diaspora, made the comments in an...
Polish appellate court throws out ruling against two Holocaust scholars
A Polish appellate court threw out a February ruling against two Holocaust scholars that said they needed to retract their research, claiming it defamed a Polish man by saying he was complicit in the...
Polish court ruling on Holocaust libel case causes profound concern among Jewish groups
A ruling issued by a court in Poland on Tuesday is meeting fierce criticism from Jewish groups and others who claim that the decision will silence further examination of the role of Polish citizens...
The growing pains of the Poland-Israel relationship
Perhaps it isn’t bad that sometimes when it comes to policy, the flag of historical truth is waving after all, and along with it, the strength of sentiments.
And yet, after raising the flag, everyone...
US ambassador to Poland: Israel should apologize for Holocaust remarks
The U.S. Ambassador to Poland Georgette Mosbacher called on Israel to apologize to Poland for Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz’s comments regarding the Holocaust.
Mosbacher said Katz should apologize, responding that what he said “warrants an apology.”
Katz...
In 2013 secretly recorded conversation, Polish premier says Jews are ‘greedy’
In secret recordings from 2013, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki allegedly complained to friends about “greedy” and rich “Americans, Jews, Germans, Englishmen and Swiss” who run hedge funds.
The recordings were made public on Tuesday...
Yad Vashem slams recent Israeli-Polish leaders’ joint statement on Holocaust
The Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum strongly criticized the “highly problematic wording” of a recent joint statement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Polish counterpart, Mateusz Morawiecki, that sought to end a...
First lawsuit filed under new Polish ‘Holocaust law’
A Polish campaign group has filed the first legal action under the new Polish “Holocaust Law” which criminalizes any suggestion that Poland took part in crimes against the Jewish people during World War II.
The...
World Jewish Congress calls Poland’s new Holocaust law ‘historical obfuscation’ and an ‘attack on...
NEW YORK – The World Jewish Congress has strongly objected to a proposed new Polish law which would criminalize suggestions that Poland was responsible for Nazis crimes, calling it “an act of historical obfuscation and...