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Haaretz: Israel adopts Warsaw's narrative, ignores Holocaust crimes by Poles

A joint statement Tuesday by the Israeli and Polish governments made no mention of Polish persecution of Jews during the Holocaust despite the several paragraphs devoted to Holocaust remembrance.

Critics charge that Poland’s right-wing government has been trying to obliterate that and other unpleasant facts from the historical record.

A senior Israeli official said that at no point during the talks did Israel seek to insert anything about Poles who collaborated with the Nazis during the Holocaust.

Read entire article at Haaretz