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Feb. 4, 2021
The Polish ambassador to Israel has rejected criticism of the libel trial underway in his country against two Holocaust historians, defending what he called the plaintiff’s “right to defend the memory of her close relative, in a letter to the Israeli head of a group that represents survivors.
Ambassador Marek Magierowski wrote in the letter posted on his Twitter feed on Wednesday that “granting blanket immunity to historians is a risky concept, to say the least.” The letter was addressed to Colette Avital, a former Israeli diplomat and lawmaker currently chairwoman of the center of organizations of Holocaust survivors.