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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.

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

 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'

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

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


No legislation can rewrite history

“One cannot fake history, one cannot rewrite it, one cannot hide the truth.”

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki reacts after receiving his nomination during a government swearing-in ceremony in Warsaw, Poland, December 11, 2017.

Go ahead, Poland, make my day

Perhaps Poland should awaken to and accept guilt for a bloody history, recognizing that no mere law can whitewash the spot on its record.

Survivors and guests walk inside the barbed wire fences at Auschwitz, during ceremonies marking the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of the camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, January 27, 2018.

Polish embassy in Switzerland invites Israeli journalists to honor Poles who rescued Jews

Invitation extended amid dispute over Polish Holocaust-related legislation.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the dedication ceremony of a monument to the Righteous Among the Nations at the Foreign Ministry

Polish embassy in Bern invites Israeli media to honor righteous gentiles

The invitation was extended amid Israel-Poland dispute over Polish Holocaust-related legislation.

A Holocaust survivor shows the number that was tattooed on his arm in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust

For Poland’s and our truth

It is repugnant to assign to an entire people the collective moral responsibility for the crimes of individuals committed without legitimate authority.

Polish President Andrzej Duda touches the Western Wall during a visit to the Old City of Jerusalem January 17, 2017

Holocaust survivors at embassy protest: ‘No law can erase history’

"You should be ashamed of yourselves. I escaped from Auschwitz and still cry every night because of what I went through there."

Holocaust survivors protest Poland's Holocaust law outside the Polish embassy in Tel Aviv, February 8, 2018

France says Poles should look beyond 'nationalist choices'

"We find this law unwelcome, we must not rewrite history, it's never very good."

A sign reading "Stop" in German and Polish is placed outside the gates to Auschwitz to mark the anniversary of its liberation, January 2018

On the linguistics of Polish death camps and other things antisemitic

I’m on the side of free speech and informed discussion.

PHOTOGRAPH OF Auschwitz-Birkenau taken in February 2017.

Work with our Polish friends – while confronting our Polish enemies

Center field

Survivors and guests walk inside the barbed wire fences at Auschwitz, during ceremonies marking the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of the camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, January 27, 2018.

Poland’s Shoah policy – precursor to a new Holocaust revisionism?

A precursor to a new Holocaust revisionism?

‘SHOES’ STARTS out with a pair of women’s shoes in a store window and follows their journey all the way to Auschwitz (pictured).