Foreign Ministry summons Polish envoy to protest property restitution law

The Foreign Ministry announces it summoned Polish Ambassador Marek Magierowski over Poland’s advancement of legislation that would prevent Holocaust restitution claims.

Magierowski was summoned for a conversation with Alon Bar, the ministry’s political director.

Bar told Magierowski that “there will be an impact on the relations between the countries and stressed it was not too late for Poland to halt processes that mean a shirking of its obligations, and to return to dialogue on the matter of restoration of property,” according to a Foreign Ministry statement.

He adds: “This is not a historic argument over responsibility for the Holocaust but rather the moral obligation of Poland.”

The ministry’s announcement came shortly after Poland said it summoned the Israeli envoy in Warsaw over the Jewish state’s criticism of the law.