President Andrzej Duda made his appeal during a speech marking the anniversary of mass student protests against the Moscow-backed communist regime in 1968. Those protests were exploited by the communist party to purge Jews from the party and from Poland. In March 1968, students staged protests against censorship and in support of academic freedom that were brutally quashed by the regime. The lower house of Parliament overwhelmingly passed a resolution Tuesday that condemned the anti-Semitic campaign and honored the anti-communist protests. Israel's ambassador Anna Azari said Thursday she objected to Morawiecki's attempt to shift the blame to Moscow, noting the anti-Semitic campaign occurred only in Poland in 1968.

Source: ABC News March 08, 2018 09:30 UTC