Polish government officials argued the law was needed to discourage the use of expressions such as "Polish death camps" to refer to the camps Nazi Germany operated in occupied Poland during World War II. Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon has said that there is no question the World War II camps in occupied Poland were German death camps. But anti-Semitism grew virulent in the decades before the war, driving many Polish Jews to emigrate. "We must protect the good name of Poles and of Poland," Poland's president said. ————Read the law: http://ms.gov.pl/pl/informacje/news,10368,nowelizacja-ustawy-o-ipn--wersja-w-jezyku.html————Associated Press writers Josef Federman and Ian Deitch in Jerusalem and Monika Scislowska in Warsaw contributed to this report.

Source: ABC News February 06, 2018 17:22 UTC