Feb 7, 2021 Feb 7, 2021A Polish journalist was questioned by police in Warsaw last week on suspicion of “slandering the good name of the Polish nation,” following an article in which she wrote that Poles were involved in the Holocaust.The journalist, Katarzyna Markusz, 39, told Haaretz on Sunday that she was questioned for about an hour last Thursday. “I was asked if I’m the author of this article, if I wanted to offend the nation [and] if not – what was my goal while writing this piece,” she said.The article was published last October on the left-wing Polish website . Among other things,...…Feb 7, 2021 Feb 7, 2021A Polish journalist was questioned by police in Warsaw last week on suspicion of “slandering the good name of the Polish nation,” following an article in which she wrote that Poles were involved in the Holocaust.The journalist, Katarzyna Markusz, 39, told Haaretz on Sunday that she was questioned for about an hour last Thursday. “I was asked if I’m the author of this article, if I wanted to offend the nation [and] if not – what was my goal while writing this piece,” she said.The article was published last October on the left-wing Polish website . Among other things,...WW…

Published on 30.08.2020 Published on 30.08.2020Israel's first years were filled with challenges and difficulties that the newspapers examined every day; the headlines tell of the fragile economy and security threats. But alongside these worries was another perceived menace: the immigration of male Holocaust survivors and their non-Jewish wives who had saved them from death.“A surge of mixed marriages and uncircumcised boys,” Yedioth Ahronoth proclaimed, while Maariv described how “hundreds of complicated human problems, created as a result of mixed marriages, have swept to Israel’s...…Published on 30.08.2020 Published on 30.08.2020Israel's first years were filled with challenges and difficulties that the newspapers examined every day; the headlines tell of the fragile economy and security threats. But alongside these worries was another perceived menace: the immigration of male Holocaust survivors and their non-Jewish wives who had saved them from death.“A surge of mixed marriages and uncircumcised boys,” Yedioth Ahronoth proclaimed, while Maariv described how “hundreds of complicated human problems, created as a result of mixed marriages, have swept to Israel’s...WW…

Aug 9, 2020 Aug 9, 2020A 40-year-old document found in the Israel State Archives recently offers a rare look into the state’s actions to force Palestinians from their homes. It shows that in the 1980s, the state declared an area as a military shooting zone for the sole purpose of removing its residents.The document was submitted to the of Justice in July, in a bid to help a few hundred Palestinians who remained in the vicinity of Yatta, a town in the South Hebron Hills, to fight the state’s efforts to remove them.The document – minutes of a July 1981 meeting of the Ministerial Committee for...…Aug 9, 2020 Aug 9, 2020A 40-year-old document found in the Israel State Archives recently offers a rare look into the state’s actions to force Palestinians from their homes. It shows that in the 1980s, the state declared an area as a military shooting zone for the sole purpose of removing its residents.The document was submitted to the of Justice in July, in a bid to help a few hundred Palestinians who remained in the vicinity of Yatta, a town in the South Hebron Hills, to fight the state’s efforts to remove them.The document – minutes of a July 1981 meeting of the Ministerial Committee for...WW…

Jun 12, 2020 Jun 12, 2020Jun 12, 2020 Jun 12, 2020Jan Grabowski appeared on the cover of a right-wing Polish magazine at the end of May. The face of the Polish-born historian took up a large amount of the cover, against the background of a threatening black-and-white photograph from the period of World War II. “A Lie Without Punishment,” blared the headline of the mass-circulation newsweekly Do Rzeczy, and the subhead added, “In his book about the ‘Blue’ Police, Jan Grabowski again accuses the Poles of having taken part in the Holocaust.”“Who said history is a boring profession?” Grabowski,...…Jun 12, 2020 Jun 12, 2020Jun 12, 2020 Jun 12, 2020Jan Grabowski appeared on the cover of a right-wing Polish magazine at the end of May. The face of the Polish-born historian took up a large amount of the cover, against the background of a threatening black-and-white photograph from the period of World War II. “A Lie Without Punishment,” blared the headline of the mass-circulation newsweekly Do Rzeczy, and the subhead added, “In his book about the ‘Blue’ Police, Jan Grabowski again accuses the Poles of having taken part in the Holocaust.”“Who said history is a boring profession?” Grabowski,...WW…