An Absence at Auschwitz
Who has more standing to attend an 80th anniversary remembrance of the liberation of the death camp than, in Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel?

The word is hard to find for the latest news out of Poland, which is inviting world leaders to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the labor and death camp where more than one million people perished, something like nine in ten of them Jews. All are welcome, except for — wait for it — the elected leader of the Jewish state, who is instead threatened with arrest if he steps foot on Polish soil to pay homage to those who perished.
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