In comments that outraged Israelis across the political spectrum, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said today (February 17, 2018) that there were Polish perpetrators in the Holocaust, in the same way there were also Jewish, Ukrainian, and Russian perpetrators, according to the Jerusalem Post website.
Morawiecki was responding to a question posed to him at the Munich Security Conference, regarding a new Polish law that criminalizes talk of Polish complicity with Nazis during the Holocaust.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed Morawiecki's remarks as "outrageous."
Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid called on Netanyahu to immediately recall Israel's ambassador from Warsaw. He also said, "The Jewish state will not allow the murdered to be blamed for their own murder..."
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