Warsaw (QNN)- The Israeli embassy in Poland condemned what it described as a “horrific” act by Polish MP Konrad Berkowicz, after he displayed a modified Israeli flag inside parliament to protest Israel's crimes.
According to the embassy, Berkowicz 'desecrated' the flag during an official session. The incident took place on Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. The far-right MP raised an Israeli flag with a swastika on it to protest Israel's atrocities. Israel called the protest act 'antisemitic'.
It also called for immediate action against Berkowicz.
Berkowicz quickly responded to the embassy’s statement with a sharply worded message. He stated that Israel is committing genocide and expanding military aggression across the region.
“And I condemn your genocide across all of Palestine,” he wrote. “We condemn what you are doing in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran.”
He continued: “I condemn your armed assault, your starving, your pacification of the population, and your burning of innocent children with phosphorus.”
Berkowicz concluded, adding: “You are no different from the Third Reich in this. I consider you Nazis.”
The incident comes amid already tensed debate in Poland over the genocide in Gaza and over the country’s wartime memory. The Polish government has always been particularly sensitive to Nazi comparisons and to suggestions that Poland or Poles shared responsibility for the Nazi Holocaust. That sensitivity has repeatedly collided with Berkowicz’s rhetoric, which has increasingly focused on Israel.
Berkowicz, the leader of the far-right Confederation of the Polish Crown, is already facing possible charges over earlier protests, including his use of a fire extinguisher to put out Hanukkah candles in parliament in December, 2023.
