In a tweet, opposition leader Yair Lapid says Israel’s “surrender” to Poland in the countries’ recent deal “is a national disgrace.”
“The Poles have for years attempted through every means to hide and deny the part of many Poles in the extermination [of Jews in the Holocaust] — alongside those Righteous among the Nations who acted to save Jews… It is unacceptable that youth trips coming to learn of the Holocaust will learn the Polish narrative.”
He said that, as the son of a Holocaust survivor, “I am ashamed of the Israeli government for giving up on its morals and principles.”
Education Minister Yoav Kisch, who was involved in the new agreement, says Lapid under the previous government “was responsible for destroying relations” with Poland and “is now trying to do what he does best — ruin international relations.”
Kisch insists that “there is no change in the [student] trips. Anything else is fake news.”
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