New Delhi, Nov. 26 -- Poland's foreign minister said Monday that he was summoning the Israeli ambassador over a post by Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial institution.

Yad Vashem wrote on X on Sunday that "Poland was the first country where Jews were forced to wear a distinctive yellow badge in order to isolate them from the surrounding population."

Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski appealed to Yad Vashem to "post afresh" and make a reference to "German-occupied" Poland. Polish officials have been for years objecting to language that might falsely attribute crimes of Nazi Germany to Poland.

The previous nationalist conservative government even came close to imposing a prison sentence on those suggesting that the Polish nation was co...