“I think we shouldn’t participate if Israel takes part,” said Marta Cienkowska.
“I think we shouldn’t participate if Israel takes part,” said Marta Cienkowska.
The YouTube videos published by Israel’s embassy cast doubt on reports of starvation in Gaza.
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“There is no place for any forms of hate speech or violence at the Medical University of Warsaw,” says its rector.
“We are here to let Israel know that it will not be alone,” said Marian Turski, a 97-year-old Auschwitz survivor.
Participants waves banners and chanted slogans condemning Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza.
Participants held signs saying “End the Holocaust of Palestinians”, “Ghetto Gaza” and “Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Palestine”.
A government Boeing 737 landed at 5:15 a.m. carrying around 130 people followed by two Hercules military transport aircraft carrying over 120 people.
Israeli Holocaust study groups would have to visit at least one site from a list compiled by the Polish government.
“Of course, [when] speaking with Israel, we shared our experiences in this area to some extent.”
Israel last year suspended the trips, accusing the Polish government of trying to “dictate what was and wasn’t allowed to be taught”.
“The Jewish and Polish peoples have an incredible common history and heritage” stretching back over 1,000 years, said Yacov Livne.
“It is absolutely incomprehensible to us that the Polish foreign ministry prohibits our citizens from coming to Poland,” said Israel’s ambassador.
Israel condemned as “antisemitic” a Polish law that prevents restitution claims by some Holocaust survivors.
The education minister also called for a “copy” of the Auschwitz museum to be created near Berlin, as a reminder that it was a German camp.