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Hypocrisy from Warsaw: Does Poland want to build bridges with Israel or burn them? - opinion

If Poland truly wants to be taken seriously as a friend of the Jewish people and of the Jewish state, it must do more than send an ambassador and issue empty platitudes.

|ByMICHAEL FREUND
IT’S LAUGHABLE that Poland is positioning itself as a moral beacon; pictured: PM Donald Tusk.
Maciej Hunia met with President Isaac Herzog.

After long hiatus, there is finally a Polish ambassador in Israel

In August 2021, Israel recalled its ambassador to Poland after Warsaw passed a law limiting claims on Holocaust-era property, most of which belonged to Jews.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
YACOV LIVNE (left) had to contend with diplomatic issues between Israel and Poland, Israeli political infighting, and the Ukraine-Russia war, during his term. Here, the former ambassador meets with Polish President Andrzej Duda.

'History is central to Israel-Poland ties,' former ambassador to Poland tells 'Post'

DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS: Yacov Livne, Israel’s former ambassador to Poland, described Jewish life in Poland today, relations with Israel, and the attempts to rewrite the past.

|ByELDAD BECK
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in front of Auschwitz (illustrative).

Poland to 'protect Netanyahu' from ICC arrest warrant during Auschwitz visit - report

Leadership from Poland has previously stated that should Netanyahu enter the country, they would enforce the warrant.

|ByJOANIE MARGULIES, AMICHAI STEIN

Polish senator suspended for klezmer-themed video of Nazi violence

Poland’s ruling party suspended a senator who posted online footage from a Nazi propaganda movie depicting violence against Jews to the sounds of klezmer music.

FEBRUARY 25, 2018ByJTA
THE PERIMETER fence of Auschwitz II-Birkenau is enveloped in a thick evening fog during the ceremonies marking the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of the camp and International Holocaust Remembrance Day, near Oswiecim, Poland, January 2018

EU's Tusk warns Poland must stop antisemitic remarks

"It is not too late for concrete action, just as it is not too late for common human decency."

FEBRUARY 23, 2018ByREUTERS
Antisemitic graffiti is seen on a monument dedicated to the victims of the Krakow ghetto, 2010.

Old wrongs and unpleasant misunderstandings

The storm in Polish-Israeli relations has already begun.

FEBRUARY 20, 2018ByARTUR KOLODZIEJCZYK
The Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw

Polish historian: Penalties for new Polish law resemble pre-war punishment

“The pre-war maximum for insulting the Polish nation in the late 1930s was three years, exactly as stipulated in the contemporary Polish legislation."

FEBRUARY 20, 2018ByTAMARA ZIEVE
THE PERIMETER fence of Auschwitz II-Birkenau is enveloped in a thick evening fog during the ceremonies marking the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of the camp and International Holocaust Remembrance Day, near Oswiecim, Poland, January 2018

Hotovely decries graffiti at Poland’s Tel Aviv embassy

Constitutional court to judge if Holocaust law violates free speech, the Polish foreign minister said.

FEBRUARY 20, 2018ByHERB KEINON
DEPUTY MINISTER of Foreign Affairs Tzipi Hotovely

Polish chief rabbi: Young Jews are questioning their place in Poland

Aftermath of the ‘death camps law’ leaves Polish Jews uneasy

FEBRUARY 18, 2018ByTAMARA ZIEVE
People wear Israeli flags around their shoulders as they walk on the railroad tracks inside the former Nazi death camp of Birkenau (Auschwitz II) in Oswiecim-Brzezinka, southern Poland April 8, 2013.

Swastikas and anti-Polish graffiti found on Polish embassy in Tel Aviv

This incident comes a day after controversial comments by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.

FEBRUARY 18, 2018ByJULIANE HELMHOLD
Swastikas sprayed on Polish embassy in Tel Aviv

Scrubbing the Nazi stain

If we are tempted to think that what happens in Poland is of little consequence to those of us sheltered a few thousand miles away, we must think again.

FEBRUARY 17, 2018ByELWOOD MCQUAID
PARTICIPANTS WALK in the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz as thousands of people, mostly youth from all over the world, gather for the annual ‘March of the Living,’ during Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Brzezinka near Oswiecim, Poland, in April last year. (Jakub Porzycki/Agencja Gazeta/Reuters)

Senate speaker asks Poles living abroad to report anti-Polish comments

The request by Stanislaw Karczewski comes on the heels of the controversial law outlawing the term "Polish death camps" and any reference to Poland's complicity in the Holocaust.

FEBRUARY 15, 2018ByAVRAHAM GOLD
Holocaust survivors enter Auschwitz 73 years after its liberation on Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 2018

Israel may host summit including Polish PM, seemingly won’t cut ties

Netanyahu attended the last Visegrad summit in July in Budapest and offered then to host the next meeting in Israel.

FEBRUARY 15, 2018ByHERB KEINON
Netanyahu and Orban