WARSAW, Poland — Poland says it has summoned Israel’s envoy after the Jewish state slammed as “immoral” a new Polish law that experts say could block World War II restitution claims.
Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski says Warsaw would like to set the record straight about the legislation passed in parliament on Thursday.
Tal Ben-Ari Yaalon, the charge d’affaires, “has been summoned… and we will explain to her in a decisive and factual way what it’s about,” Jablonski tells state television TVP about the meeting scheduled for tomorrow.
“We believe that unfortunately what we’re dealing with here is a situation that certain Israeli politicians are exploiting for internal political purposes,” he adds.
The Israeli embassy in Warsaw tweeted on Thursday that “this immoral law will seriously impact relations between our countries.”
It “will in effect prevent the restitution of Jewish property or compensation requests from Holocaust survivors and their descendants as well as the Jewish community that called Poland home for centuries. It’s mind-boggling,” the embassy said.
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