The Polish embassy in Israel is vandalized

Vandals painted the sign of the broken Nazi cross on the doors of the Polish embassy in Tel Aviv, an action that follows comments in recent days by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in which he used the phrase "Jewish perpetrators" of the Holocaust.

Vandals put profanity on the doors of the Polish embassy in Israel. Police said they have launched an investigation into the incident and are looking for suspects.

Israelis are outraged by a new law in Poland that punishes anyone who calls the Nazi genocide a 'Polish crime'.

Controversy erupted on Saturday when a journalist at the Munich Security Conference asked Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki if he could be jailed for telling the story of how the family's neighbors reported his mother to the Nazis in Poland.

Israeli leaders immediately condemned the Polish leader's comment.

"We are united in this fight. We must be strong for the memory of our brothers and sisters killed in the Shoah. But today, more than ever, we must work to educate the world, even some of its leaders, about that dark time," said Israeli President Reuven Rivlin.

Prime Minister Morawiecki's spokesman said that he had in no way tried to deny the Holocaust.

About six million Poles, half of them Jews, were killed during World War II by the Nazis.

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had a telephone conversation with his Polish counterpart on Sunday, telling him that "comparing the activities of Poles to those of Jews during the Holocaust is unfounded." /Telegraph/