ISRAEL’S EMBASSY IN POLAND RECEIVES WAVE OF ANTISEMITIC MESSAGES AFTER HOLOCAUST BILL

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Israel’s Ambassador to Poland Anna Azari said on Friday that there has been a wave of antisemitic attacks in Poland in the days following the passage of a bill that makes it criminal to suggest that Poland was complicit in the Holocaust.
Israel's embassy in Poland receives wave of antisemitic messages after Holocaust bill

 Ambassador of Israel to Poland Anna Azari attends a commemoration event in the so-called “Sauna” building at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau, January 27, 2018. (photo credit: REUTERS/KACPER PEMPEL)

“In the last few days we could not help but notice a wave of antisemitic statements, reaching the Embassy through all channels of communication,” the Israeli Embassy in Poland said in a statement, adding that Azari was personally targeted in many of the messages.

Antisemitic statements have also been “overflowing” in the Polish media, according to the embassy.

While Krzysztof Czabanski, head of the National Media Council, said that “there is no place for antisemitic statements on the public media,” the embassy stated that the problem is on-going.

“We would like to use this opportunity to repeat that Israel stands with Poland in using the proper term for the death camps – German Nazi camps,” the Embassy statement read.

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Source:Jerusalem Post