Pod Save America Hosts Call on Democrats to Cut All Israel Military Aid, No Longer Accept AIPAC Funding
Jews, Israelis Targeted in Austria Amid Surge in Antisemitic Incidents; Local Jewish Community Calls for Action
‘All of Our Strength’: Over 1,000 Pro-Israel Activists Gather in DC for Solidarity Conference
‘Devastated’: Wesley LePatner, Killed in Manhattan Mass Shooting, Was a Jewish Communal, Philanthropic Leader
Sen. Angus King Vows to No Longer Vote for Israel Military Aid Until Gaza Conditions Improve
Europe Won’t Pressure Israel to ‘Commit Suicide’ Amid Gaza Backlash, Palestinian State Push, Says Israeli FM
Israel’s National Soccer Coach Attacked in Athens Before Soccer Fans Chant ‘F–K Israel, Free Palestine’ at Match
New York Judge Sentences Neo-Nazi to 5 Years for Livestreaming Bomb Threats Against Jewish Hospitals
US Pressures Lebanon to Issue Cabinet Decision to Disarm Hezbollah Before Talks Continue
UK Plans to Recognize Palestinian State in September Unless Israel Meets Conditions, Starmer Says
France Says Poles Should Look Beyond ‘Nationalist Choices’
Error: Contact form not found.
by Reuters and Algemeiner Staff
French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian. Photo: Reuters / Benoit Tessier.
France’s foreign minister said on Wednesday Poland should not be “rewriting history” after its president signed a contested Holocaust bill into law and said he hoped the Polish people would pick a new path in their next elections.
The legislation imposes jail terms for suggesting the country was complicit in the Holocaust and despite protests from Israel and the United States, Poland’s right-wing government has defended it saying it is necessary to protect the reputation of Poles as victims of Nazi aggression.
Israel says the law would ban true statements about the role that some Poles played in Nazi crimes.
“We find this law unwelcome, we must not rewrite history, it’s never very good,” Jean-Yves Le Drian told BFM TV.
Frosty even under the previous French administration, bilateral relations between the two NATO allies reached a new low in August when French President Emmanuel Macron said the Polish people deserved better leaders and he shunned Poland during an eastern Europe tour.
“I think that the moral pressure will be strong enough, I hope so anyway,” Le Drian said. “I also hope that the Polish people will be able to change their minds and make sure that in the next (elections) they will get out of this straitjacket imposed on them by nationalist choices that are quite regrettable,” he said.
