{"id":345807,"date":"2018-01-28T19:51:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T18:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/israel-poland-in-row-over-holocaust-bill\/"},"modified":"2018-01-28T19:51:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T18:51:34","slug":"israel-poland-in-row-over-holocaust-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/israel-poland-in-row-over-holocaust-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel, Poland in Row over Holocaust Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Poland on Saturday of denying history with a bill outlawing any reference to the Nazi death camps in the country as being Polish.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The law is baseless. I strongly oppose it. One cannot change history and the Holocaust cannot be denied,&#8221; the premier said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>As a diplomatic row brewed on the day the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Poland&#8217;s charge d&#8217;affaires to Israel has been summoned to the foreign ministry on Sunday, the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>A foreign ministry official told AFP the Polish bill was &#8220;an attempt to rewrite and falsify history, something that the Jewish people and Israel will never accept&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Poland&#8217;s rightwing-dominated parliament on Friday adopted legislation that sets fines of a maximum three-year jail term for anyone who refers to Nazi German death camps as being Polish.<\/p>\n<p>The measure is intended to apply to both Polish citizens and foreigners. It is expected to easily pass in the Senate before being signed by the president.<\/p>\n<p>Poland was attacked and occupied by Nazi Germany in World War II, losing six million of its citizens, including three million Jews in the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>Polish officials routinely request corrections when global media or politicians describe as &#8220;Polish&#8221; former death camps such as Auschwitz set up by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland.<\/p>\n<p>Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, said it &#8220;opposes the new legislation passed by the Polish parliament, which is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/israel-poland-in-row-over-holocaust-bill\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Poland on Saturday of denying history with a bill outlawing any reference to the Nazi death camps in the country as being Polish. &#8220;The law is baseless. I strongly oppose it. One cannot change history and the Holocaust cannot be denied,&#8221; the premier said in a statement. As a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-345807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}