Polish Team Heads to Israel to Discuss Holocaust Law Crisis
- Poland seeks to find ‘common ground’ with Israel: spokeswoman
- Polish-Israeli relations deteriorated over Nazi-era history
Watch towers surrounded by fences at Auschwitz II - Birkenau, in the village of Brzezinka, Poland.
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A Polish government team is traveling to Israel to de-escalate a crisis surrounding a new Holocaust law criminalizing suggestions that Poland bears any responsibility for the mass murder of Jews during World War II.
Poland is trying to defuse its biggest standoff with Israel in at least three decades over the law, which has drawn warnings that it verges on denying the crimes of the Holocaust from the U.S. and other allies. As Jewish groups raise the alarm over what they say is growing anti-Semitism in Poland, the ruling Law & Justice party has responded by saying there’s a rising tide of anti-Polish sentiment around the world.