Poland warned on Monday that it may pull out of a summit of central European countries in Jerusalem this week on the heels of comments by Israel's new foreign minister accusing Poles of anti-Semitism.
The move comes after Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki backed out of the summit on Sunday, following uproar in Poland over reported comments by Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu about the Poles and the Holocaust.
Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz was due to replace Morawiecki, but a senior government official in Warsaw said on Monday that this was now under a "question mark" following comments by Israel's diplomatic chief Israel Katz.
He told Israel's i24 television that "there were many Poles who collaborated with the Nazis, and like Yitzhak Shamir, whose father was murdered, said: Poles suckle anti-Semitism with their mothers' milk."
"The situation has changed since yesterday," Michal Dworczyk, head of the Polish prime minister's chancellery, told Polish radio on Monday, adding that "we're dealing with a disgraceful statement by Israel's new foreign minister."
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