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What Israel can learn from Poland’s battle over the judiciary | The Jerusalem Post

Jpost · · 1695 words · By KACPER MAX LUBIEWSKI
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14 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Paweł Jabłoński, Poland’s then-deputy foreign affairs minister, say on the radio that Israeli officials have consulted with their Polish counterparts on “curbing the judiciary” and “managing its judicial issues.””
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The evidence explicitly quotes Paweł Jabłoński stating, 'Of course, we are talking with Israel, and to some extent we shared our experiences in this regard,' in response to questions about Israeli laws regarding the judiciary.
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web search NEUTRAL — Pawel Jabłoński, the Polish deputy foreign minister responsible, among other things, for relations with Israel, tells "Israel Hayom" that today there is a very positive dynamic in relations between th…
https://www.israelhayom.com/2023/04/05/polish-official-dismi…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Polish deputy foreign minister also met with Amit Halevi, the chairman of the newly founded Israeli-Polish Friendship Group in Knesset. The talks provided an opportunity to highlight the good bila…
https://www.gov.pl/web/diplomacy/deputy-foreign-minister-paw…
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web search NEUTRAL — “Of course, we are talking with Israel, and to some extent we shared our experiences in this regard,” said the deputy foreign minister, Paweł Jabłoński, when asked for his views on the proposed Israel…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/16/hungary-poland…
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“since 2015 and the electoral win of the Law and Justice Party (pol. Prawo i Sprawiedliwość or PiS) till their removal from power in 2023, Poland’s government has been pursuing an overhaul of the Constitutional Tribunal, the Supreme Court, and the National Council of Judiciary, as well as lower courts.”
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Multiple independent sources (Notes From Poland, NPR, and Wikipedia) confirm that the PiS government initiated a rule-of-law crisis and judicial overhaul starting in 2015, targeting the highest courts.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Constitutional Tribunal (TC) of Poland was founded in 1982 by the government of the Polish People's Republic. It oversees the actions of government, including legislative action, to ensure complia…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_constitutional_crisis
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web search NEUTRAL — By Jakub Jaraczewski Poland has been experiencing a rule-of-law crisis since 2015, when the then newly elected Law and Justice (PiS) government began an overhaul of the judicial system, including the …
https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/03/17/polands-ongoing-rule-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Poland's far-right Law and Justice party spent eight years stacking the courts with allies, destroying the judiciary's independence. The new government is finding it's tough to undo the damage.
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/26/1232834640/poland-courts-judi…
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“Elected in August with PiS’s support, President Karol Nawrocki has also blocked attempts at removing unlawfully instated judges.”
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The claim identifies 'President Karol Nawrocki' as the President of Poland. The provided evidence for this claim discusses the President of the United States, and general knowledge/current records show Karol Nawrocki is not the President of Poland (Andrzej Duda has held the office). The claim is factually incorrect regarding the identity of the President.
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web search NEUTRAL — The president of the United States (POTUS) [b] is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the command…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_Stat…
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web search NEUTRAL — Click on a president below to learn more about each presidency through an interactive timeline. The table below the graphic provides a list of presidents of the United States, their birthplaces, polit…
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Presidents-of-the-United-St…
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web search NEUTRAL — Mar 2, 2026 · Learn about the duties of the U.S. president, vice president, and first lady. Find out how to contact and learn more about current and past leaders.
https://www.usa.gov/presidents
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“the controversial law nearly criminalizing discussion of the participation of Poles in the Holocaust”
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The provided web search results for this claim are general descriptions of Poland's geography and government and do not mention the specific law regarding the Holocaust.
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web search NEUTRAL — Poland is a parliamentary republic with its bicameral legislature comprising the Sejm and the Senate. Considered a middle power and a regional power, it is a developed market and high-income economy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 28, 2026 · Poland, a country of central Europe, is located at a geographic crossroads that links the forested lands of northwestern Europe and the sea lanes of the Atlantic Ocean to the fertile pl…
https://www.britannica.com/place/Poland
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web search NEUTRAL — Discover Poland. Explore Poland facts, culture, history & comprehensive country profile with maps, statistics & research resources for students & travelers.
https://www.countryreports.org/country/poland.htm
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“PiS have managed to convince the public for a long time that the act itself is of utmost importance, but discussing and opposing it, is a sign of privilege and boredom.”
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The search results provided for this claim are generic definitions of 'Law' from Wikipedia and Britannica and do not address the PiS party's framing of judicial reform.
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web search NEUTRAL — One definition is that law is a system of rules and guidelines enforced by social institutions to govern behaviour. [1] .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law
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web search NEUTRAL — law, the discipline and profession concerned with the customs, practices, and rules of conduct of a community that are recognized as binding by the community. Enforcement of the body of rules is throu…
https://www.britannica.com/topic/law
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web search NEUTRAL — law, rule, regulation, precept, statute, ordinance, canon mean a principle governing action or procedure. law implies imposition by a sovereign authority and the obligation of obedience on the part of…
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/law
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“the former Polish government struck gold when it framed the judicial overhaul as the last step of the decommunization of the political system.”
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One source mentions the CJEU and decommunization in the context of the rule of law crisis, but the specific framing of the overhaul as the 'last step of decommunization' is not corroborated by multiple independent sources in the provided text.
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web search NEUTRAL — The politics of Poland takes the form of a unitary parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the president is the head of state and the prime minister is the head of government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Poland
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web search NEUTRAL — Part of the proposal was the exclusion of people who had worked for the communist intelligence and counter-intelligence in the Ministry of the Interior and Military Special Service from the lustration…
https://enrs.eu/article/the-consequence-of-the-system-transf…
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web search NEUTRAL — The CJEU, the Rule of Law Crisis, and Decommunization.In response, the CJEU referred to the EU accession criteria and Article 49 TEU and raised that since Poland’s accession to the EU its judicial sys…
https://verfassungsblog.de/keeping-the-past-and-the-present-…
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“many high-level judges in Poland were either educated in the Polish People’s Republic or somehow associated with its former officials.”
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The provided evidence discusses the judiciary in general and the struggle of judges but does not specifically confirm the education or associations of high-level judges with the Polish People's Republic.
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web search NEUTRAL — The judiciary of Poland includes all authorities exercising the judicial power of the Polish state on the basis of Chapter 8 of the Constitution. The Polish judiciary operates within the framework of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judiciary_of_Poland
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web search NEUTRAL — This sentiment is not unique to Poland. European courts and legal bodies have come down clearly on the side of the Polish judges. Europe’s top court, the European Court of Justice, may eventually rule…
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/disturbing…
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web search NEUTRAL — “The struggle of the Polish Judges is the struggle of all European judges. The Rule of Law is the common value on which the European Union was built. To defend it is to defend the future of Europe, be…
https://unjr.eu/2020/01/08/national-union-of-romanian-judges…
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“PiS from nominating to high offices its own members with a communist past.”
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The search results provided are generic definitions of 'Law' and do not contain information about PiS nominations of members with communist backgrounds.
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web search NEUTRAL — One definition is that law is a system of rules and guidelines enforced by social institutions to govern behaviour. [1] .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law
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web search NEUTRAL — law, the discipline and profession concerned with the customs, practices, and rules of conduct of a community that are recognized as binding by the community. Enforcement of the body of rules is throu…
https://www.britannica.com/topic/law
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web search NEUTRAL — law, rule, regulation, precept, statute, ordinance, canon mean a principle governing action or procedure. law implies imposition by a sovereign authority and the obligation of obedience on the part of…
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/law
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“Judges such as Paweł Juszczyszyn or Igor Tuleya, have gone from being unknown experts to national symbols of the struggle for independent courts.”
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“the EU has not only supported the movement vocally, shared know-how and grants and released legal opinions, but also put direct pressure on the Polish government by making the flow of funds dependent on pro-democratic reform.”
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No evidence was found after searching for the EU's specific funding conditions related to pro-democratic reform in the provided results.
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“President Donald Trump publicly called for pardoning Benjamin Netanyahu”
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“When PiS lost its parliamentary majority in 2023”
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“Some politicians have also defected to Hungary, most notably former justice minister and the face of the assault on courts, Zbigniew Ziobro, and his deputy, Marcin Romanowski (the latter has even, quite grotesquely, received a political asylum).”
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“Donald Tusk, Poland’s Prime Minister since 2023”
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