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Opinion I’m Polish. My Government Has Every Right To Fight For The Truth.
Poland and Israel are currently caught in the biggest diplomatic crisis since the fall of communism. The crisis came about after Polish lawmakers approved a bill criminalizing statements that blame Poland for the Holocaust. In retaliation, new legislation in the Knesset would make the Polish bill a form of illegal Holocaust denial. But the opposite…
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Fast Forward Polish TV Host Says Jews In Holocaust ‘Were Part Of Their Own Destruction’
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) – A television host in Poland suggested that the former Nazi concentration camps in the country be called “Jewish death camps.” The comment comes amid tensions between Poland and Israel over Polish legislation that would criminalize the use of the term “Polish death camps,” designed to make it clear that Nazi Germany…
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Opinion Poland Still Hasn’t Learned One Of The Holocaust’s Most Important Lessons
Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! The outrageous move by the Polish legislature to punish anyone blaming Poles for the crimes of the Holocaust is wrong on so many levels. It is an anti-democratic attempt to limit free speech…
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Fast Forward Israel, Poland To Speak Over New Bill Banning Phrase ‘Polish Death Camps’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel and Poland will open an “immediate dialogue” over legislation that would criminalize the use of the term “Polish death camps.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Polish counterpart, Mateusz Morawiecki, spoke on Sunday evening by phone and “agreed that teams from the two countries would open an immediate dialogue in…
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Fast Forward Israel Appalled Over Poland Effort To Criminalize The Term ‘Polish Death Camps’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu protested a bill passed by the lower house of the Polish parliament which would make it illegal to use terms such as “Polish death camps” to refer to the camps set up by the Nazis. “The law is baseless; I strongly oppose it” Netanyahu said in a…
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Fast Forward Yair Lapid Fights With Poland Embassy Over ‘Polish Death Camps’ Bill
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli politicians condemned a bill passed by the lower house of the Polish parliament which would make it illegal to use terms such as “Polish death camps” to refer to the camps set up by the Nazis. Yair Lapid, head of the Yesh Atid Party, wrote on Facebook that “Poland was complicit in…
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Fast Forward Polish Group Wears Nazi Uniforms, Burns Swastika; Government Will Investigate
A television report in Poland that exposed neo-Nazis celebrating Adolf Hitler’s birthday and burning a swastika has lead to an official investigation and a government denunciation. The original report was broadcast by the station TVN24 over the weekend and focused on a neo-Nazi group named Pride and Modernity. This is the same group that held…
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Culture 1968, Turbulent Year In World History, Remembered In New Exhibit
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. This year marks 50 years since the tumultuous year of 1968. In New York, a unique new exhibit at the Steven Kasher Gallery highlights iconic photographs of that memorable year. Among them are a number of images portraying Jewish celebrities, Israel and Jewish-related themes. The exhibition “Day…
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