Polish-Israeli talks amid spat over new law
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Victoria Bieniek
02.03.2018 14:15
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Polish-Israeli talks amid spat over new law
Polish and Israeli diplomats met in Jerusalem on Thursday in an effort to overcome differences regarding a controversial Holocaust speech law passed in Poland that has raised concerns among Jews internationally.
The heads of two dialogue teams, Israeli Foreign Ministry Director-General Yuval Rotem and Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Bartosz Cichocki. Photo: EPA/ATEF SAFADI
“The Polish and Israeli perspectives are disparate. [Jews] don’t realise that as the war grows more distant, more and more people mistakenly believe that Poles, too, were the perpetrators of the Holocaust,” said Bronisław Wildstein, a member of the Polish delegation.
Michał Owczarek reports.