Opposition deputies protest as the first stage of controversial judicial reform is approved by the Knesset Law Committee on Feb. 13, 2023.
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Huge pro-democracy demonstrations in Israel have taken place for almost two months in protest of new rules for the Supreme Court that Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government is rushing into law.
Poland’s president Andrzej Duda.
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Poland’s robust arguments for more weapons for Ukraine is partly sparked by its own vulnerable position.
Nationalists demonstrate in support of the controversial new Holocaust law.
EPA/Jacek Turczyk
Criminalising suggestions that Poland was complicit in German atrocities during World War II denies history and will hinder scholarship.
‘Anti-Semitism is treatable’ – a banner at a Warsaw demonstration.
Reuters/ Agencja Gazeta
Seventy years after the end of World War II, a battle is taking place over Polish collective memory.
EPA/Jakub Kaczmarczyk
The European Union is threatening to suspend the state’s voting rights if it pursues legislation to restrict its judiciary.
Krasinski Square in Warsaw, Poland just before Trump’s speech.
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A historian who studies Poland witnesses the president’s visit to Warsaw, and casts a skeptical eye at the crowd that took in the president’s speech.
Poland’s president Andrzej Duda taking supreme command over Polish armed forces on August 6.
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Andrzej Duda’s Law and Justice party is more anti-Russian and eurosceptic than its main rival.