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https://www.fr24news.com/a/2021/08/israel-furious-as-poland-signs-law-limiting-property-rights.html

The Polish president decided to sign a bill that would limit the ability of Jews to recover property seized by German Nazi occupiers and kept by post-war Communist rulers, sparking anger from Israel who called the law of “anti-Semite”.
“I made a decision today on the act, which in recent months has been the subject of heated and noisy debate at home and abroad,” Andrzej Duda said in a statement released on Saturday. .

“After careful analysis, I decided to sign the amendment. “

Before World War II, Poland was home to one of the largest Jewish communities in the world, but it was almost completely wiped out by the Nazis, and the former Jewish owners and their descendants campaigned for compensation.

Until now, Jewish expatriates or their descendants could claim that a property had been illegally seized and demand its return, but the Polish authorities argued that this created uncertainty about the ownership of the property.

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid criticized the decision, ordering the country’s charge d’affaires return to Warsaw on Saturday.

“Poland approved today, not for the first time, an immoral and anti-Semitic law,” Lapid said in a statement on Saturday.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called the law “shameful” and said it showed “a shameful disregard for the memory of the Holocaust”.

Israel was joined by the United States in its opposition to the legislation, and Lapid said Israel was in talks with the Americans on other plans of action.