The World Jewish Congress sharply criticized the Polish government, Sunday evening, for legislation that would make it illegal to blame Poles for crimes carried out by the Nazis during the Holocaust, calling the proposal “an act of historical obfuscation and an attack on democracy.”
WJC chief executive officer Robert Singer said in a statement that, while Poles are “understandably sensitive” about Nazi extermination and concentration camps in occupied Poland being called Polish, “it is a serious mistake for Poland to seek to criminalize those who do not adhere to this practice.”