Poland’s prime minister says his country is not sending a delegation to a meeting in Jerusalem after the acting Israeli foreign minister said that Poles “collaborated with the Nazis” and “sucked anti-Semitism from their mothers’ milk”.
The developments mark a new low in a bitter conflict over how to remember and characterise Polish actions toward Jews during the German occupation of Poland in World War II.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called the remarks by acting foreign minister Israel Katz “unacceptable” and “racist”.
Read the report in The Courier (AAP).