Polish PM cancels trip to Israel after Netanyahu's Holocaust comment

Poland’s prime minister has canceled a trip to Israel in the wake of reported remarks made by his Israeli counterpart suggesting Polish complicity during the Holocaust.

Polish Prmie Minister Mateusz Morawiecki welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before their meeting in Warsaw, Poland, 14 February 2019. Source: AAP

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has cancelled a visit to Israel for a high-level summit, a government spokesperson told AFP on Sunday, after uproar in Poland over reported comments by Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu about the Poles and the Holocaust.

Netanyahu -- who was initially quoted in Haaretz newspaper as saying that "The Poles collaborated with the Nazis" -- has been condemned in Poland for appearing to accuse all Polish people of cooperating with Germany during World War II.

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