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Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid issues a video statement on Poland's passage of a law that severely limits restitution for property stolen by the Nazis during the Holocaust and confiscated by the post-WWII communist regime. Aug. 14, 2021. Source: Twitter.

Lapid decries passage of Poland’s ‘anti-Semitic’ restitution law, recalls charge d’affaires from Warsaw

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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...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Aug. 11, 2021 that compensation for new restitution claims in Poland should not be closed off. Credit: Shutterstock.

Blinken: US ‘deeply concerned’ by Polish bill blocking Holocaust victims from reclaiming property

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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 Yair Lapid speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset, June 21, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Israeli Foreign Minister Lapid: Polish property restitution bill hints at anti-Semitism

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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,...
The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, devoid of those participating in the annual March of the Living to mark Yom Hashoah, April 20-21, 2020. Credit: Marcin Kozlowski, March of the Living.

Why are Jews and Poles still arguing about the Holocaust?

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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...
Holocaust survivor Edward Mossberg with Polish president Andrzej Duda at a ceremony at the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in Poland, on April 12, 2018. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/Flash90.

Poland and Israel’s loss of diplomatic wisdom

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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...
Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Polish prime minister: Restitution to Holocaust victims a ‘victory for Hitler’

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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...
Polish Ambassador to Israel Marek Magierowski. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israeli man apologizes for spitting at Polish ambassador

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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....
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at Warsaw summit, called “The Ministerial Conference to Promote a Future of Peace and Security in the Middle East,” speaks with Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz. To his left is the Yemen’s Foreign Minister Khalid Al Yamani ,and at far left is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Credit: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo/Twitter.

The growing pains of the Poland-Israel relationship

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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...
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan is greeted by U.S. Ambassador to Poland Georgette Mosbacher during his visit to Warsaw on Dec. 19, 2018. Credit: U.S. State Department.

US ambassador to Poland: Israel should apologize for Holocaust remarks

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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...