Foreign Ministry

TEL AVIV – A joint Israeli-Polish Holocaust remembrance ceremony in Poland was canceled after the country’s authorities tried to censor the speech of an Israeli mayor that apparently contained references to Polish participation in atrocities committed during the war. 

TEL AVIV – A declassified 1946 State Department report documents there was evidence of Poles having “persecuted the Jews as vigorously as did the Germans during the occupation” from 1939 to 1945, and further testifies to widespread antisemitism in the

TEL AVIV – An official delegation from Poland will arrive in Israel in the coming days to reach an understanding on the controversial bill which criminalizes blaming the eastern European country for any Holocaust-related crimes, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Saturday.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday slammed Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki’s “outrageous” remark that Jews helped perpetrate the Holocaust, saying that the comment highlighted the Polish prime minister’s insensitivity.

TEL AVIV – The U.S. on Tuesday said it was “disappointed” that Poland’s President Andrzej Duda authorized a bill that would make it illegal to blame Poland for any Holocaust-related crimes.

TEL AVIV – Poland cancelled a scheduled visit to the country by Education Minister Naftali Bennett after he made comments charging the European nation with complicity in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust, Bennett claimed Monday evening.

TEL AVIV – Poland’s President Andrzej Duda said Monday he was “flabbergasted” by Israel’s “violent and very unfavorable reaction” to a controversial bill that would make it illegal to blame Poland for any Holocaust-related crimes.

TEL AVIV – Poland’s deputy ambassador to Israel received a dressing down at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on Sunday over new legislation in his country that would make it illegal to blame Poland for any Holocaust-related crimes while Israeli schools this week will devote two hours to learning more about the role Poland played during World War II.

TEL AVIV – Responding to Israeli outrage over a new bill in Poland that would make it illegal to blame the country for any Holocaust-related crimes, Polish Prime Minister on Saturday said the name Auschwitz and the infamous sign outside the death camp bearing the phrase “Arbeit macht frei” are not Polish.

South Korea’s defense minister assured legislators this week that his government would complete the creation and training of a “decapitation brigade” to attack North Korea if necessary by the end of the year. While Seoul has referenced the plan in the past, officials appear to be expediting it in response to North Korea’s latest nuclear test.

The Chinese state propaganda outlet Global Times has published an incendiary column claiming that the Chinese public “really detest US reconnaissance” in Asia and “actually wanted” China to shoot down a U.S. reconnaissance plane dangerously intercepted over the weekend.

TEL AVIV – Germany’s Ambassador to UNESCO drew fire from a Jewish human rights organization after observing a minute’s silence for “Palestinian victims” at the cultural agency’s annual meeting in Krakow, Poland last week.

TEL AVIV – Germany cancelled an upcoming summit between its government and Israel’s, reportedly as a result of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s growing frustration with settlement activity.

TEL AVIV – Israel would “welcome” the suggestion of President-elect Donald Trump’s Jewish son-in-law Jared Kushner to serve as peace broker with the Palestinians, the country’s top diplomat said.

TEL AVIV – The Iranian Foreign Ministry said global opposition to Israel was a “good omen” and urged the international community to put an end to Israel’s “conspiracies” against the Palestinians, including the Judaization of Jerusalem and the desecration of al-Aqsa Mosque.

TEL AVIV – After UNESCO’s executive board voted in favor of a resolution that entirely ignored any Jewish ties to the Temple Mount and Western Wall area, Foreign Ministry director-general Dore Gold wrote a letter “registering Israel’s protest in the strongest terms.”

TEL AVIV – The Obama administration does not consider the Golan Heights part of Israel, U.S. State Department spokesperson John Kirby stressed Monday night, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that the Golan “will forever remain under Israeli sovereignty.”