Livni lambastes Poland Holocaust declaration as ‘shocking historical distortion’

Former foreign minister and current Zionist Union MK Tzipi Livni joins growing criticism of a joint Israeli-Polish declaration signed by the two nations’ prime ministers that Poland believes exonerates Poles from responsibility for the Holocaust, calling the agreement a “disgrace” and demanding it be canceled.

“Netanyahu’s disgracing of the memory of the Holocaust at the expense of the State of Israel and the entire Jewish people will be remembered forever,” Livni says in a statement. “The person who constantly uses the Holocaust as a political tool gave moral validity in the name of the Jewish people to a shocking historical distortion.”

Livni charges that the Polish government has used Netanyahu “as a tool to whitewash its past” and says the agreement “must be canceled immediately.”

— Raoul Wootliff