Israel’s Acting FM: Poles Collaborating With Nazis Remark ‘Tells The Truth’

Israeli Minister of Transport Yisrael Katz attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on February 17, 2019. - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on February 17 he ... Israeli Minister of Transport Yisrael Katz attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on February 17, 2019. - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on February 17 he was relinquishing the role of foreign minister and handing it to a right-wing rival from within his Likud party, Israel Katz. The move comes ahead of April 9 elections and follows court challenges arguing Netanyahu -- who is also health and defence minister -- has taken on too many governmental portfolios. (Photo by Sebastian Scheiner / POOL / AFP) (Photo credit should read SEBASTIAN SCHEINER/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s acting foreign minister has doubled down on his divisive claim that Poles collaborated with the Nazis and “suckled anti-Semitism with their mothers’ milk.”

Yisrael Katz said in a live TV interview late Thursday that he did not regret his comment, insisting that “I, as a son of Holocaust survivors … have to tell the truth.”

Katz’s statement incensed Poland last week, prompting its withdrawal from a meeting of European leaders in Jerusalem.

The scrapped summit marked a new low in Polish-Israeli relations, long fraught over how to characterize Polish actions toward its Jewish community during World War II.

In an interview with the daily Haaretz published Friday, Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki slammed Katz’s remarks as “nothing short of racism,” likening his words to those of a “radical extremist.”

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  1. Except that Bibi makes unholy alliances with Jew-hating Christianist End-Timers and nationalistic RW anti-Semitic European nations like Hungary and others, so your protestations against Poland ring about as true as a Styrofoam church bell, sir.

  2. Good! So I guess they’ll be happy to discuss their treatment of the Palestinians then?

  3. Having a problem with Isreal bombing entire city blocks because family memvers of a suicide bomber lives there is anti-Semitic… haven’t you heard?

  4. Avatar for dm3000 dm3000 says:

    The above 2 comments are whataboutism. The Israeli FM’s comments, quoting Shamir, were extreme but not entirely incorrect given the long history of Polish anti-Semitism.

  5. Eye for an eye makes everyone blind… as is being proven generation after generation after generation…

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