© FacebookPolish President Andrzej Duda, left, pictured with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a January 2017 visit to Jerusalem, is “flabbergasted” at Israel’s reaction to a new law restricting speech about the role Poles played in the Holocaust.
The law passed in the lower house and is expected to pass in the senate and be signed by the president before it takes effect.
From Israel's perspective, the problem is how to appear sufficiently upset in order to maintain the self-declared Jewish state's self-appointed role as the guardian of the memory of the millions murdered.
It's an awkward balancing act since in the 21st century, anti-Semites and even some Holocaust deniers are among Israel's closest and most fervent allies.
Comment: The author has a point: Israeli Zionists are natural allies of racists, bigots and the far-right - even the anti-semitic ones! The names and specific narratives may change, but they all define their identity by contrast to the inferior/evil 'other'.