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Thursday, March 1, 2018
Foreign Ministry officials meeting with Polish delegation over Holocaust law
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleForeign Ministry officials meet with a Polish delegation regarding a Polish law that outlaws blaming Poland for Nazi crimes during World War II.
“It is no secret that the issue of the Polish law on the Holocaust has caused concern in Israel and among the Jewish people across the world,” Foreign Ministry director Yuval Rotem says ahead of the meeting. “We need to ensure that the historic truth is preserved and that there won’t be limits on freedom of speech and research, and that the fear of criminal punishment in this context will be discussed and solved.”
“Likewise, we’ll raise our concern about the substantial rise in anti-Semitic incidents recently. We are aware that the Polish leadership has condemned these expressions [of anti-Semitism], but we intended to discuss the matter,” he adds.
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