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Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Poland protests after Times of Israel calls new president ‘Holocaust revisionist’
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Poland’s foreign ministry has sent a letter to The Times of Israel protesting yesterday’s story that called Poland’s incoming president Karol Nawrocki a “Holocaust revisionist.”
Nawrocki, a nationalist historian, narrowly won Sunday’s presidential election in the highly polarized EU and NATO member state against his pro-EU rival Rafal Trzaskowski.
Yesterday, The Times of Israel published a story whose headline called Nawrocki a “Conservative Holocaust revisionist,” and said he “made Holocaust revisionism part of his campaign.” The story also linked to a previous article, headlined: “Poland to vote for next president, with Holocaust history an apparent item on the ballot.”
In a letter addressed to the site, Poland’s embassy in Israel says it is “concerned by the use of the term ‘Holocaust revisionist,’ as not only unfair, but also potentially harmful, as it may suggest that he denies the Holocaust — which is an unfounded and misleading implication.”
“In reality,” it adds, Nawrocki, “during his tenure as President of the Institute of National Remembrance, engaged in scholarly debate concerning the extent of Polish civilians’ involvement in the Holocaust under Nazi German occupation.”
“We respect the editorial right to make judgements, but this particular judgement, especially in Poland, evokes very dangerous associations,” foreign ministry spokesman Pawel Wronski tells the Polish news agency PAP.
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