Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki over the weekend told supporters at a campaign rally that compensating Jews for the Holocaust "violates international law and would also be a posthumous victory for Hitler, which is why we will never allow it."
He has said that Poles are the foremost victim of the Nazis' crime, and they would deserve to be compensated for WWII – after the United States passed a law in 2018 to facilitate the return of lost Jewish property.
Meanwhile, as Poland and the rest of Europe prepare to enter elections, a display of anti-Semitism from Poland's far Right on the same day during a debate over WWII restitution in the city of Kielce developed into an anti-Semitic scene that has raised eyebrows.
According to Polish reports, the far-right Confederation political alliance's Dawid Lewicki displayed a kippah, held it in front of the ruling Law and Justice party's Anne Krupka and said, "This is the symbol of Law and Justice. They kneel before the Jews, they sell the country for $300 billion."
In response, Krupka threw the kippah off her head and onto a table.
Later on in the debate, when Krupka spoke again, another Confederation alliance candidate picked up the kippah and held it above her head.
Despite receiving condemnation from Warsaw's envoy to Tel Aviv – who tweeted that "all expressions of racially motivated hatred are unacceptable," Israel's foreign ministry deemed the incident unworthy of comment.
"This a fringe racist party that isn't even worthy of responding to," Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said.
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