Polish Nationalists staged a demonstration in New York opposing a proposed US law that would monitor Poland's efforts to provide restitution to Holocaust victims and their descendants .
They were opposing Section 447 of the Justice For Uncompensated Survivors Act, under which America's State Department will report on the progress of Poland and other European countries regarding the return of property confiscated during the Second World War.
It has angered Polish nationalists, many of whom believe the role of Poland in the Holocaust has been exaggerated and argue atrocities were exclusively the fault of occupying Nazi Germany.
During Sunday's demonstration, the protesters carried signs saying denouncing the "Holocaust Industry”, “Treat anti-Polonism like antisemitism” and “Stop slandering Poland in the media.”
One carried a banner saying "God, Honour, Fatherland".
Jewish artist Molly Crabapple attended the demonstration and said she witnesses antisemitism, including someone who "waved a dollar bill to taunt Jewish counterprotesters", one who berated a man for "speaking Jewish" and another who said "the Jews of Warsaw were mostly killed by other Jews".
There was a Polish nationalist demostration in Foley Square today that denied any Polish complicity with the Holocaust.
— Molly Crabapple (@mollycrabapple) March 31, 2019
One demonstrator waved a dollar bill to taunt Jewish counterprotesters
Poland's Holocaust Law, which would see anyone who suggested Poland was responsible for Nazi crimes facing a prison term, has angered the Jewish community.
