Daniel Schatz

The author is a political scientist and Visiting Scholar at Columbia University’s European Institute. He has served as a Visiting Fellow at Harvard, Stanford and Georgetown University.

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu, Polish President Andrzej Duda and their wives meet at the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem, in 2017.

Israel-Poland deal and the distortion of Holocaust history - opinion

Poland's President Andrzej Duda delivers a speech before the official start of a march marking the 100th anniversary of Polish independence in Warsaw, Poland November 11, 2018.

Poland refuses to confront its 1968 antisemitic pogrom against Jews - opinion

FOREIGN MINISTER Yair Lapid and Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde address the media in Jerusalem on Monday.

Is this a new dawn for Swedish-Israeli ties? - opinion


Destruction of Poland’s Jewish community in 1968: A remaining open wound

Poles of Jewish origin were accused of having instigated the students’ rebellious calls for democratic reforms. They were arrested, beaten, and subjected to torture and detention.

A FLAG and flowers are left at a monument in Warsaw, Poland that commemorates the uprising in the city’s Jewish ghetto in 1944.

Sweden and Israel

A recap of the frigid relation between Stockholm and Jerusalem.

Sweden flag

No legislation can rewrite history

“One cannot fake history, one cannot rewrite it, one cannot hide the truth.”

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki reacts after receiving his nomination during a government swearing-in ceremony in Warsaw, Poland, December 11, 2017.

Facing history half a century since expulsion of Poland’s Jews

“My grades were lowered and all my friends had suddenly disappeared. No one dared to talk to me anymore."

AN AERIAL view of the Palace of Culture in Warsaw that was built in 1955. During the communist era, many Jews were purged and accused of being ‘Zionists.’

48 years since expulsion of Poland’s Jews

The purge resulted in the forced exodus of 20,000 Jews, a mere 25 years after Nazi Germany had carried out the Holocaust on Polish soil.

Flowers are placed at the "death wall" at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland

Sweden and Israel: A complex relationship

If history is any guide to the future, Stockholm’s ambition to build bridges to peace will remain a vision as long as Swedish-Israeli relations remain in their current state.

Flags of Israel and Sweden

Se confronter à son passé

Pour chasser les fantômes du passé, la Pologne doit accepter de reconnaître ses erreurs et dédommager les victimes juives spoliées de leurs biens

Immeuble de Varsovie où habitaient des familles juives

High time for Poland to confront its past

No viable solution has yet been found to resolve the critical issue of restitution for the Polish victims of the Holocaust nor the 1968 anti-Semitic social and political unrest.

Survivors of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz arrive to the former camp in Oswiecim.