Israel Slams Poland Over Proposed Holocaust Law

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Israeli leaders are outraged over Poland’s pending  legislation that would officially outlaw blaming Poles for Holocaust crimes committed on Polish soil during World War II.

The bill, which was passed by the lower house of parliament on Friday, would make the use of phrases such as “Polish death camps” punishable by up to three years in prison.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed the proposed bill that would make it illegal to describe Nazi death camps as Polish.

In a statement he said: “I strongly oppose it. One cannot change history and the Holocaust cannot be denied”

RT reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the proposed law, passed by the lower house of the Polish parliament on Friday, “baseless.” The new legislation prescribes prison time for using phrases like “Polish death camps” to refer to the notorious mass concentration camps Nazi Germany operated in occupied Poland during World War II.

“One cannot change history, and the Holocaust cannot be denied,” Netanyahu wrote on Facebook late on Saturday, adding that he had asked the Israeli embassy in Poland to “meet tonight with the Polish prime minister to relay my firm stance against this bill.”

The bill, which still needs approval from Poland’s Senate and president, is perceived by critics as an attempt by the country’s nationalist government to target anyone who seeks to contest its official stance on the conduct of Poles during the war, which places emphasis on heroism and sacrifice while rejecting the complicity of some in mass murder. Under the new legislation, anyone who publicly attributes blame for the crimes committed by the Nazis to Poles or the Polish state would be liable for penalties.

“Non-governmental organizations indicate that every other day the phrase ‘Polish death camps’ is used around the world,” Poland’s deputy justice minister Patryk Jaki said in a speech before the lower house on Friday. “In other words, German Nazi crimes are attributed to Poles. And so far the Polish state has not been able to effectively fight these types of insults to the Polish nation.”

Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial has issued a statement opposing the Polish legislation, saying it is “liable to blur the historical truths regarding the assistance the Germans received from the Polish population during the Holocaust.”

“There is no doubt that the term ‘Polish death camps’ is a historical misrepresentation,” the Yad Vashem memorial said. “However, restrictions on statements by scholars and others regarding the Polish people’s direct or indirect complicity with the crimes committed on their land during the Holocaust are a serious distortion.”

Former Finance Minister Yair Lapid, the head of Israel’s centrist Yesh Atid party, also lambasted the controversial bill on Twitter.

“I utterly condemn the new Polish law which tries to deny Polish complicity in the Holocaust. It was conceived in Germany but hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered without ever meeting a German soldier. There were Polish death camps and no law can ever change that,” Lapid wrote.

His comment added fuel to the fire, sparking the Polish Embassy in Israel to respond: “Your unsupportable claims show how badly Holocaust education is needed, even here in Israel.”

“My grandmother was murdered in Poland by Germans and Poles,” Lapid replied. “I don’t need Holocaust education from you. We live with the consequences every day in our collective memory. Your embassy should offer an immediate apology.”

To which the embassy retorted: “How does that relate to the fact that WW2 death camps were German Nazi, not Polish (our thread)? Shameless.”

Noting that 73 years had passed since the Auschwitz death camp on Polish soil was liberated, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said that respecting the tragic page of history is a must.

“The Jewish people, the State of Israel, and the entire world must ensure that the Holocaust is recognized for its horrors and atrocities,” Rivlin said. “Also among the Polish people, there were those who aided the Nazis in their crimes. Every crime, every offense, must be condemned. They must be examined and revealed.”

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  1. Even if all this was true, the so-called zionist jews(who are in no way real Jews from the true house of Judah), have learned nothing from this but only through it to hate and exterminates anyone anywhere that stands against them, intellectually, morally, philosophically and or militarily. A true Jewish bloodline individual would not do such things, for he would be a god fearing man and forgive. Therefore this only shows that the so-called zionist jews have an individualised, customised and personal agenda of a very broad spectrum of dominance across the world. So, who are these so-called zionist jews? Who use the holocaust as their main tool of WMD? For one thing, the word zion (from the term, “Mount Zion”) is a biblical term referring to a seat of government and Godly Authority ruling over all Israel and according to the prophetic Word eventually over the entire Earth at Jesus Christ second coming together with His resurrected Bride, The true Church of Called, called Mount Zion from above and the new Jerusalem. Zionism or more correctly, Mount Zion from above, has nothing to do with individual human flesh beings in authority or government or individuals. It is only a false flag so to speak to give these Elitist and individuals a supposed platform of godly legitimacy. God is not impressed and has much to say about them and their end demise!

  2. “The Holocaust cannot be denied” – Why not?
    There is zero evidence that a single person was gassed by the Nazis.
    A believable gas chamber has not been found to this day, neither have documents describing it.

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