Despite protests by Israel and the United States, the bill criminalizing suggestions of Polish complicity in the Holocaust was signed into law.
Polish President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday signed into law a bill making it a crime to blame the “Polish Nation or Polish State” for culpability in the Holocaust, despite a furious reaction from Israel and warnings from Washington that this could damage US-Poland ties. Hours before he signed the bill, however, Duda said he would send it to the country’s Constitutional Tribunal for judicial review, leaving open the possibility of a last-ditch amendment to the legislation.
