Poland said to censor Israeli mayor’s speech in light of new law

An Israeli mayor canceled a speech he was planning to deliver to Israeli high school students on a trip to Poland after local authorities censored his speech, Hadashot TV new reports.

Kiryat Bialik Mayor Eli Dukorsky, who is heading the Israeli delegation, was meant to deliver his speech today along with the mayor of Radomsko, Kiryat Bialik’s twin city, the report says.

However, before Dukorsky could deliver his address, the Radomsko mayor told him that the authorities wished to go over his speech in light of a new law criminalizing the mention of Polish complicity in the Holocaust.

Several minutes later, the Polish mayor reportedly returned and requested that Dukorsky omit parts of his speech that dealt with Poles who turned Jews in to the Nazi occupiers.

The report says the Israeli mayor then sought the advice of the Foreign Ministry, which recommended that he not deliver a censored version of his speech.

The joint ceremony was then canceled, and the mayor ended up delivering the speech to the students privately.