ISRAEL is annoyed at a law whitewashing Poland’s role in the Holocaust because of its “shame at the passivity of the Jews” during the genocide, a Polish presidential adviser has claimed.

Andrzej Zybertowicz told the Polska-The Times newspaper that Tel Aviv’s opposition to the law — criminalising reference to Polish complicity in the crimes committed under nazi occupation — was anti-Polish, adding that Israel was “clearly fighting to keep the monopoly on the Holocaust.”

His claims follow open expressions of anti-semitism in some government-controlled media after Israel objected to the law.