Poland criticizes US claim that Polish law glorifies Nazism

Poland’s government is criticizing the claim of a US congressman that a new Polish law glorifies Nazi collaborators and denies the Holocaust.

The charge was made by Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California, one of two congressmen leading a bipartisan effort urging the US State Department to pressure Poland and Ukraine to combat state-sponsored anti-Semitism.

“Our government should be concerned with the resurgence of anti-Semitism in Ukraine and Poland. Both countries recently passed laws glorifying Nazi collaborators and denying the Holocaust,” Khanna wrote Wednesday.

In response, Andrzej Pawluszek, an adviser to Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, says that Khanna’s words were “irresponsible and shocking.”

Poland’s deputy foreign minister Bartosz Cichocki, retort: “Sir, I would appreciate if you indicated a single law passed in my homeland Poland (recently or not), which glorifies Nazi collaborators and/or denies Holocaust.”

In a separate post, he adds: “Equally, I would love to learn what exactly your government did to combat [the] Holocaust after being requested to do so by the Polish government-in-exile.”

— with AP