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Fast Forward Angela Merkel Dodged Question On Poland’s Controversial Holocaust Bill
German Prime Minister Angela Merkel declined to comment on Saturday on Poland’s controversial bill that criminalizes statements attributing any fault for the Holocaust to Polish people or the Polish state, the Irish Times reported. “Without directly interfering in the legislation in Poland, I would like to say the following very clearly as German chancellor: We…
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Fast Forward Poland Plans Vote To Restrict Kosher Meat Exports: Report
(JTA) — The Polish parliament is preparing to vote on a bill that proposes to limit the export of kosher meat, a European Jewish lobby group said. The 48-page bill on animal welfare is neither focused on the ritual slaughter of animals — which was in 2013 was banned in Poland but legalized again due…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivors Demonstrate In Front Of Polish Embassy Over New Law
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Dozens of Israeli Holocaust survivors demonstrated outside the Polish Embassy in Tel Aviv to protest a new law in Poland that outlaws blaming the country for Nazi crimes. On Thursday, the survivors entered the embassy compound and surrounded a diplomat’s vehicle waving signs and shouting slogans. They carried signs in Hebrew and…
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Fast Forward Polish President Signs Holocaust Language Bill, Drawing Rebuke From U.S.
(JTA) – Polish President Andrzej Duda signed and finalized a law limiting rhetoric about the Holocaust, leading to a rebuke from U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. The United States is “disappointed,” Tillerson said Tuesday, following Duda’s final approval of a law introduced on Jan. 26 in the Polish parliament. It prescribes up to six…
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Community Why Poland’s Holocaust Bill Will Backfire
Efforts to protect the good name of Poland by criminalizing speech are backfiring. Rather than leading to more accurate statements about responsibility for the Holocaust, the draft amendment is having the opposite effect. The very statements that the bill is intended to ban and punish are being stated and restated across the globe in ever…
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Fast Forward Polish President To Sign Holocaust Speech Bill, Send It To Judges For Review
(JTA) — Polish President Andrzej Duda said he would sign a controversial law limiting rhetoric on atrocities committed in his country during World War II, but added he would refer it for review by a constitutional court. The bill would make it illegal — and punishable by up to three years in prison — to…
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Fast Forward Poland Cancels Israeli Minister’s Visit After He Vowed To Tell ‘Truth’ About Holocaust
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Poland cancelled a scheduled visit by Israel’s Education Minister Naftali Bennett, after he said he would use the opportunity to tell the Polish people the “truth” about Poland and the Holocaust. Bennett said that while in Poland he was “determined to say explicitly what history has already proved — the Polish nation…
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Opinion Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Grandfather Read The Forward In Yiddish. Pretty Cool.
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