Alon Bar, head of the Strategic-Political Department of the State Department, said Israel “Extremely disappointed with this bill… which experts estimate will negatively affect 90% of genocide survivors and their children’s requests for the return of property.”
Magierowski said in an interview with KAN Bet on Sunday: “I have a feeling that no one in Israel reads the bill and doesn’t know the contents of the bill.
“The goal of Israeli politicians is to take the opportunity to destroy our relationship. and does not protect genocide survivors,” he added.
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The bill in question sets a 30-year period to appeal an administrator’s decision on the return of confiscated property. It passed the Sejm House of Representatives of Poland on Thursday.
shortly after said goodbye “No law can change history. Polish law is immoral and will seriously undermine international relations. Israel will stand as a fortress, defending the memory of the Holocaust and the dignity of the Holocaust survivors and their property.”
“Poland, where millions of Jews were killed Knows what to do,” the foreign minister added.
The United States has also spoken out against the bill.
“The decision of the Polish parliament yesterday was a wrong step. We urge Poland not to move this law forward,” US State Department spokesman Ned Price. said in a tweet on Friday.
Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has pledged his country will not indemnify genocide survivors for the crimes committed in Germany against them in their lands during World War II.
Pawel Jablonski, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Propose this bill as an anti-corruption measure. and said that Lapid’s comments reflect “Profound ignorance of facts”
“Polish are like Jews. victims of serious crimes in Germany,” Jablonski tweeted. “The actions passed in Sejm protect the victims of these crimes and their heirs from fraud and harassment. It is the execution of the 2015 Constitutional Court ruling as a result of the barbaric repeated privatization… Many were deprived of their property.”
Poland-Israeli relations have been strained since 2018 after Poland passed a law punishing those who argue that Poles or Poles were responsible for the genocide.
A prominent Israeli critic of the law, then Foreign Minister Israel Katz reiterated the words of former Prime Minister Yitzhak. Shamir said that the Poles absorbed anti-Semitism with their mother’s milk. and Lapid, who at that time was a member of the opposition legislature. said Poland was involved in the genocide of then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It was said shortly afterwards that some Poles were cooperating with the Nazis. which sparked chaos in Poland as well.
Poland is home to one of the largest Jewish communities in the world. Until it was almost completely wiped out by the Nazis during World War II.
Former Jewish property owners and their descendants have campaigned for compensation since the fall of communism in 1989.
Poland is the only country in the European Union that has not enacted a law on property restitution. Although there have been several calls to do so from the US.
on saturday About 70 headstones were smashed and demolished in the Jewish cemetery in Bielsko-Biala. southern poland Amid tensions over the bill
The Chief Rabbi of Poland, Rabbi Michael Schudrich, described the incident as the worst case of cemetery destruction in the country in the past 30 years.
He said police were working hard to try and find the perpetrators.
Schudrich said the Jewish community was planning a ceremony at the cemetery on Tuesday that would be attended by Jewish leaders, and he hoped national leaders too.
Rabbi said the corrosive rhetoric of Polish politicians in recent days over legal arguments was a proximate cause of anti-Semitic events such as the attack on the Jewish cemetery in Bielsko-Biala.
“When you have tension Politicians will say things they shouldn’t say. And when politicians start using hateful and hateful language. It’s not surprising that things like this happen,” Schudrich said.
“I hope we can avoid a reduced rhetorical attack,” he added.
Dr. Rafal Pankowski, associate professor at Collegium Civitas and co-founder of the Never Again Association, noted that in recent days there has been a growing use of anti-Israel rhetoric.
