The Israeli government has likened the bill to Holocaust denial, and the United States to an attack on freedom of speech. President Trump, left, and Polish President Andrzej Duda in Warsaw on July 6, 2017. Finally, the U.S. officials reportedly added that any attempt to prosecute an American citizen under the law would result in dramatic consequences. Poland’s right-wing government, led by the Law and Justice Party, has attacked Gross as “unpatriotic,” and the Holocaust law enabled a lawsuit to be filed last week against an Argentine newspaper for a December article pertaining to the Jedwabne massacre. Before Poland’s president signed the law last month, U.S. officials strongly argued against it.

Source: Washington Post March 07, 2018 22:18 UTC