The comparison infuriates Jewish groups and people in Warsaw who have worked hard to preserve the memory of the city’s two uprisings against the Nazis
A picture taken from the southern Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip on Oct. 15, 2023, shows rockets fired from the Palestinian enclave towards Israel.It has become a rallying cry for many Palestinians and their supporters: The people of Gaza are only doing what Jews in the Warsaw ghetto did during the Second World War – fighting back against an oppressor. For them, Gaza is another Warsaw ghetto.
The Nazis created the Jewish ghetto a year after invading Poland in 1939. They squeezed more than 400,000 Jews into a walled-off section of the downtown. As the Germans began deporting most of the ghetto’s population to the Treblinka extermination camp, a few hundred Jews took up arms in April, 1943. The fighters held out for almost a month before the Germans regained control and razed the ghetto.
Dr. Kozłowski, who also helped build the city’s Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, has sympathy for the plight of the Palestinian people and worries about how the current war will end. “The problem is no one in Israel dares to say openly what is the final goal of military intervention,” he said.“It’s not only offensive, it has nothing to do with history,” he said in an interview Friday after a prayer service in Warsaw’s Castle Square. “Jews were forced into the Warsaw ghetto.
His participation in the event caused an uproar among Jewish organisations and led the Israeli delegation to walk out. Poles have begun to understand that “it’s possible to care about Polish-Jewish relations but also it’s possible to be critical of Israeli politics,” she added.
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