Poland and Israel in Tense Talks Over Law Likened to Holocaust Denial<br />By ISABEL KERSHNER and JOANNA BERENDTMARCH 1, 2018<br />JERUSALEM — Polish and Israeli officials met on Thursday to address the diplomatic rift<br />that erupted over a new Polish law that makes it a crime to blame Poland for the Holocaust, a measure that Israeli officials have likened to Holocaust denial.<br />How can one unfortunate phrase, one inaccurately written sentence destroy all of it?" On Thursday, Israeli<br />and Polish diplomats met for more than three hours in what the Israeli Foreign Ministry described as "candid and open dialogue," although the talks were inconclusive.<br />Poles wrote that We ask you not to rewrite history,<br />Ms. Stupnicka-Bando said she hoped the current tensions were a result of a "misunderstanding and not ill will." She added, "We, the righteous ones, are optimists." Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka, the president of the Jan Karski Educational Foundation, which organized the open letter, noted<br />that many of the letter’s signers were in their 90s, and she worried that memories of righteous acts were fading.
