Israel criticises Poland over proposed Holocaust law

israeli high minister benjamin netanyahu has criticised a proposed invoice that might make it illegal to describe nazi dying camps as polish.

"i strongly oppose it. one cannot exchange records and the holocaust cannot be denied," he said in a statement.

below the bill, that's an change to an present polish law, all and sundry who indicates poland was accountable for nazi crimes should face a prison time period.

it's far expected to pass in the senate before being signed by way of the president.

the polish price d'affaires to israel has been summoned by the foreign ministry in jerusalem.

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poland became attacked and occupied by using nazi germany all through global warfare two. thousands and thousands of its residents had been killed, inclusive of three million polish jews in the holocaust.

the us of a has long objected to the use of terms like "polish demise camps", which recommend the polish nation in some manner shared obligation for camps together with auschwitz.

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the camps have been constructed and operated by way of the nazis when they invaded poland in 1939.

israeli officials are opposed to the proposed law, suggesting it's going to limit dialogue of polish involvement within the holocaust.

"that is a shameful brush aside of the fact," stated israel's schooling and diaspora affairs minister naftali bennett.

"it's miles a historic truth that many poles aided inside the murder of jews, handed them in, abused them, or even killed jews throughout and after the holocaust."

however he recounted that terms which include "polish camps" were misrepresentative.

"it is also a ancient truth that the germans initiated, deliberate, and built the work and demise camps in poland. that is the fact, and no regulation will rewrite it. these records have to study to the following generation."

the yad vashem holocaust remembrance centre in israel said "there may be no doubt that the time period 'polish death camps' is a historical misrepresentation. yad vashem will retain to aid research aimed at exposing the complex truth concerning the attitude of the polish populace in the direction of the jews in the course of the holocaust."

the polish authorities said the invoice turned into now not meant to restriction freedom to analyze or talk the holocaust.

high minister mateusz morawiecki tweeted that "auschwitz-birkenau isn't a polish name, and arbeit macht frei is not a polish phrase".the united states's deputy justice minister patryk jaki, who authored the bill, stated israel's objections have been "evidence" that it became wanted.

"essential israeli politicians and media are attacking us for the bill. on top of that they declare that poles are co-responsible' for the holocaust," he stated.

"that is proof how necessary this invoice is."

it's miles estimated that 1.1 million humans, maximum of them jews, died at auschwitz before it changed into liberated through soviet forces in 1945.