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Since it won power in 2015, the conservative ruling party, Law and Justice, has sought to discourage investigations into Polish wrongdoing during the wartime German occupation, preferring instead to almost exclusively stress Polish heroism and suffering. The aim is to promote national pride — but critics say the government has been whitewashing the fact that some Poles also collaborated in the German murder of Jews. The Israeli Holocaust museum Yad Vashem said the legal effort “constitutes a serious attack on free and open research.” A number of other historical institutions have condem...

194 shares A group of Polish Jews are led away for deportation by German SS soldiers, during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German troops after an uprising in the Jewish quarter, in 1943. (AP Photo) WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Two Polish historians are facing a libel trial for a scholarly examination of Polish behavior during World War II, a case whose outcome is expected to determine the fate of independent Holocaust research under Poland’s nationalist government. A verdict is expected in Warsaw’s district court on February 9 in the case against Barbara Engelking, a historian ...

There’s a storm brewing in the American Jewish community over a definition of antisemitism that appears, upon first glance, quite banal. “Antisemitism,” it reads in part, “is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews.” But the language, adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in 2016, comes packaged with a host of examples that describe various criticism of Israel as antisemitic. As much of the Jewish establishment makes federal adoption of the IHRA definition a top priority for the Biden administration, it has become a proxy fo...