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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a joint press conference with US President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, DC, February 15, 2017. / AFP / MANDEL NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Israel slams Polish PM Holocaust comment

The row between Israel and Poland over Warsaw’s new Holocaust law has blown up again at the Munich Security Conference.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said comments by his Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki that there were also “Jewish perpetrators” during the Holocaust was “outrageous”.

Earlier this month Poland passed a law mandating fines or imprisonment for people who attributed responsibility to the Polish people or state for Nazi atrocities committed during World War II.

Read the article in The Courier (from AAP).