The Polish decision to criminalize accusations of Polish responsibility for crimes against Jews during the Holocaust has stirred a storm in Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki agreed to open a dialogue between the two countries, but the agreement did little to appease Israelis.
In a Feb. 6 tweet, Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid accused Netanyahu of making a mistake when he announced that he would enter negotiations on the issue with Poland’s prime minister. “We cannot hold negotiations over the memory of the murdered. Netanyahu must now return the ambassador until further notice and re-examine cooperation agreements. The Jewish state was not founded for us to be silent in face of deniers of the murder of the Jews,” Lapid opined.
