Poland and Israel in Tense Talks Over Law Likened to Holocaust Denial
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Poland and Israel in Tense Talks Over Law Likened to Holocaust Denial
By ISABEL KERSHNER and JOANNA BERENDTMARCH 1, 2018
JERUSALEM — Polish and Israeli officials met on Thursday to address the diplomatic rift
that erupted over a new Polish law that makes it a crime to blame Poland for the Holocaust, a measure that Israeli officials have likened to Holocaust denial.
How can one unfortunate phrase, one inaccurately written sentence destroy all of it?" On Thursday, Israeli
and Polish diplomats met for more than three hours in what the Israeli Foreign Ministry described as "candid and open dialogue," although the talks were inconclusive.
Poles wrote that We ask you not to rewrite history,
Ms. Stupnicka-Bando said she hoped the current tensions were a result of a "misunderstanding and not ill will." She added, "We, the righteous ones, are optimists." Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka, the president of the Jan Karski Educational Foundation, which organized the open letter, noted
that many of the letter’s signers were in their 90s, and she worried that memories of righteous acts were fading.
By ISABEL KERSHNER and JOANNA BERENDTMARCH 1, 2018
JERUSALEM — Polish and Israeli officials met on Thursday to address the diplomatic rift
that erupted over a new Polish law that makes it a crime to blame Poland for the Holocaust, a measure that Israeli officials have likened to Holocaust denial.
How can one unfortunate phrase, one inaccurately written sentence destroy all of it?" On Thursday, Israeli
and Polish diplomats met for more than three hours in what the Israeli Foreign Ministry described as "candid and open dialogue," although the talks were inconclusive.
Poles wrote that We ask you not to rewrite history,
Ms. Stupnicka-Bando said she hoped the current tensions were a result of a "misunderstanding and not ill will." She added, "We, the righteous ones, are optimists." Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka, the president of the Jan Karski Educational Foundation, which organized the open letter, noted
that many of the letter’s signers were in their 90s, and she worried that memories of righteous acts were fading.