Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki of Poland at a joint news conference with Germany’s chancellor in Berlin, Feb. 16, 2018. (Michele Tantussi/Getty Images)
(JTA) — The row between Poland and Israel about the Holocaust reached new heights this week after Poland’s prime minister said that the genocide had not only Polish, Ukrainian and German perpetrators, but Jewish ones as well.
Addressing a new law that criminalizes blaming Poland for Nazi crimes, Mateusz Morawiecki said in an interview Saturday that the law’s effects would not be as sweeping as its critics complain.
“It’s not going to be seen as criminal to say that there were Polish perpetrators, as there were Jewish perpetrators, as there were Ukrainian; not only German perpetrators,” he said.
If his statement was meant to soothe the law’s critics – they include international Jewish groups and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who called the legislation baseless in a rare rebuke of an ally of Israel — then Morawiecki failed spectacularly.
Escalating his rhetoric, Netanyahu called the remark “outrageous.”
“There is a problem here of an inability to understand history and a lack of sensitivity to the tragedy of our people,” the Israeli leader said.
Another Israeli leader, President Reuven Rivlin, offered his contempt for the remark.
“Saying that Jews collaborated with the Nazis is a new low,” he said.
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This is not the first time that I have read, or heard, that some Jews collaborated with the Nazis during the Holocaust. What about Anne Frank and her family? Who ratted her out?
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