Yesh Atid chairman MK Yair Lapid slams Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his decision to open a dialogue with the Polish government aimed at “reaching an understanding” over proposed legislation in Warsaw criminalizing blaming Poles for Holocaust atrocities.
“We don’t negotiate over the memory of the deceased,” Lapid tells fellow party lawmakers at the weekly faction meeting at the Knesset. “This law needs to be buried in the Polish ground, which is saturated with the blood of Jews.”
The law would allow for punishments including prison time for anyone using the term “Polish death camps,” and criminalizes the mention of Polish complicity in Nazi crimes as “distortion of the truth, the rewriting of history and the denial of the Holocaust.”
Lapid says that instead of negotiating, “Israel needs to tell Poland one thing: If this law passes you will need to prosecute us.” The Yesh Atid leader adds that it was “not by chance” that most of the concentration camps were in Poland and Israel must not shy away from speaking the truth.
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