Poland Stokes Holocaust Law Storm as Israeli Leader Lashes Out
- Netanyahu calls Polish premier’s comments ‘outrageous’
- Morawiecki refers to ‘Jewish perpetrators’ at conference
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed outrage about comments by his Polish counterpart who defended a Holocaust law by suggesting that Jews were among the perpetrators.
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki was responding to an Israeli journalist’s question at the Munich Security Conference about legislation that makes it a crime to suggest Poland was responsible for the Nazi-era genocide. At one point, the Polish premier referred to “Jewish perpetrators” in a list of non-Germans that committed World War II-era crimes.