{"id":1444,"date":"2018-02-02T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jcpa.wpengine.com\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2022-03-20T17:39:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T17:39:54","slug":"jewish-council-for-public-affairs-urges-polish-president-to-reject-holocaust-complicity-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishpublicaffairs.org\/press-release\/jewish-council-for-public-affairs-urges-polish-president-to-reject-holocaust-complicity-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Council for Public Affairs Urges Polish President to Reject Holocaust Complicity Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>NEW YORK, NY <\/em>\u2013 The Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) strongly opposes a new bill passed by the Polish parliament that would criminalize speech that ties the Polish nation to atrocities committed during the Holocaust. We call on Poland\u2019s\u00a0President Andrzej Duda\u00a0not to sign the badly flawed legislation.\u00a0\u201cAs a close friend of Poland, I am personally appalled at this blatant attempt to silence discourse on the Holocaust,\u201d stated Cheryl Fishbein, Chair of JCPA. \u201cWe urge our affiliates at the national and local levels to immediately contact the Polish embassy or consulate nearest to them to express their grave concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we don\u2019t use, and urge others not to use, the term \u2018Polish death camps\u2019 to describe the Nazi death camps in Poland, it is highly destructive to criminalize such discussion and calls into question Poland\u2019s democratic character and commitment to freedom of speech,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, NY \u2013 The Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) strongly opposes a new bill passed by the Polish parliament that would criminalize speech that ties the Polish nation to atrocities committed during the Holocaust. We call on Poland\u2019s\u00a0President Andrzej Duda\u00a0not to sign the badly flawed legislation.\u00a0\u201cAs a close friend of Poland, I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jewish Council for Public Affairs Urges Polish President to Reject Holocaust Complicity Bill - Jewish Council for Public Affairs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jewishpublicaffairs.org\/press-release\/jewish-council-for-public-affairs-urges-polish-president-to-reject-holocaust-complicity-bill\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jewish Council for Public Affairs Urges Polish President to Reject Holocaust Complicity Bill - Jewish Council for Public Affairs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"NEW YORK, NY \u2013 The Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) strongly opposes a new bill passed by the Polish parliament that would criminalize speech that ties the Polish nation to atrocities committed during the Holocaust. 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