Swastikas Painted on Polish Embassy Following PM’s ‘Jewish Perpetrators’ Holocaust Claims

Ynetnews reports: Swastikas and profanities were daubed on the entrance to Poland’s embassy in Israel on Sunday after Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Jews, as well as Poles and others, were among perpetrators of the Holocaust.

Poland sparked international criticism over its stance on the facts of the Holocaust when it passed a law imposing jail terms for suggesting the country was complicit in the deaths of millions of Jews during the war.

At the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Morawiecki was asked by Israeli reporter Ronen Bergman whether the reporter himself could be penalized for telling a story in Poland about his mother, who survived the Holocaust, and told him that some Poles had collaborated with the Gestapo. In his answer, Morawiecki equated “Jewish perpetrators” with Polish, Ukrainian, Russian and German perpetrators, drawing immediate criticism from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who called his words “outrageous.”