Criticism over deal renewing school trips to Poland
An agreement to renew visits by Israeli schoolchildren to Poland to learn about the Holocaust has been criticized as whitewashing the role played by some Poles in the murder of Jews.
Last month the Polish and Israeli governments agreed to renew the school trips but the details were only published last week, sparking major criticism in Israel and from international Holocaust scholars.
Under the terms of the agreement, which still needs to be ratified by the Israeli and Polish parliaments, each Israeli delegation must now visit one site from a list of 32 recommended sites that stress the Polish…
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