Tag: Israel-Poland Relations
Lapid decries passage of Poland’s ‘anti-Semitic’ restitution law, recalls charge d’affaires from Warsaw
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on Saturday night accused Poland of having “become an anti-democratic, non-liberal country that does not honor the greatest tragedy in human history.”
Lapid was responding to Polish President Andrzej Duda’s...
Blinken: US ‘deeply concerned’ by Polish bill blocking Holocaust victims from reclaiming property
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that the United States is “deeply concerned” by legislation passed by the Polish parliament earlier in the day barring Holocaust survivors and their descendants from reclaiming property...
Israeli Foreign Minister Lapid: Polish property restitution bill hints at anti-Semitism
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, who on Thursday took a stringent position against a Polish bill to limit the restitution of property stolen from Polish Jews, continued to press the Polish government on Sunday,...
Why are Jews and Poles still arguing about the Holocaust?
It’s a controversy in which there are no heroes, as well as one that in a more rational world no one would bother with. That’s the only way to describe the increasingly complicated brawl...
Poland and Israel’s loss of diplomatic wisdom
This Thursday is supposed to mark another diplomatic triumph for Israeli diplomacy. On Jan. 23, the Fifth World Holocaust Forum will convene at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day and...
Polish prime minister: Restitution to Holocaust victims a ‘victory for Hitler’
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Friday that were Poland to pay restitution for those whose property was stolen in the Holocaust it would violate “international law and would also be a posthumous...
Israeli man apologizes for spitting at Polish ambassador
An Israeli man has apologized for spitting at Polish Ambassador to Israel Marek Magierowski.
“I would like to express my apologies,” said Arik Lederman, who was arrested for spitting at the ambassador, in a statement....
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...