Polish nationalism takes a more threatening turn

JVL Introduction

In July 2018 we reposted an article by Israeli Prof Yehuda Bauer under the title Poland exempts itself from criticism about the Holocaust.

Bauer then accused the Israeli government of accepting “the mendacious official Polish narrative” about the Holocaust and by so doing legitimising the Polish government campaign to harass anyone who exposed Poles’ involvement in the crimes of the Holocaust.

The situation has deteriorated, as David Rosenberg explains in this article from Jewish Socialist.

He calls on Jewish community organisations here in Britain to pressurise our Tory government – which has very friendly relationships with the highly conservative Polish government – to condemn and protest against state interference in the writing of the history of the Holocaust.

Developments in Poland follow from the official mandating of a national celebratory historical narrative. It is precisely this that  UK  Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden is seeking here…

This article was originally published by Jewish Socialists’ Group on Fri 12 Feb 2021. Read the original here.