The Israeli media report about Holocaust survivors demonstrating outside and inside the Polish Embassy in Tel Aviv on Thursday. The demonstrators protest against the new Polish antidefamation law that outlaws blaming Poland as a nation for Holocaust crimes committed by Nazi Germany.
Some of the angry anti-Polish protesters entered the offices singing “Am Yisrael Chai.” They are also carrying signs reading: “The Polish law is a slap in the face of the people of Israel”, “No law can erase history” and “Poles, we remember what you did.” The images and video footage in the press show a young cheerleader encouraging the protesters to chant slogans. Some of the demonstrators are in their middle age.
The protest violates the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 1961. We urge the Israeli security forces to prevent any disturbance of the peace of the mission and impairment of its dignity.
Within the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 1961 convention, Articles 21-25 have to do with embassies, though more specifically diplomatic missions as a whole.
Article 21
1. The receiving State shall either facilitate the acquisition on its territory, in accordance with its laws, by the sending State of premises necessary for its mission or assist the latter in obtaining accommodation in some other way.
2. It shall also, where necessary, assist missions in obtaining suitable accommodation for their members.
Article 22
1. The premises of the mission shall be inviolable. The agents of the receiving State may not enter them, except with the consent of the head of the mission.
2. The receiving State is under a special duty to take all appropriate steps to protect the premises of the mission against any intrusion or damage and to prevent any disturbance of the peace of the mission or impairment of its dignity.
3. The premises of the mission, their furnishings and other property thereon and the means of transport of the mission shall be immune from search, requisition, attachment or execution.
Article 23
1. The sending State and the head of the mission shall be exempt from all national, regional or municipal dues and taxes in respect of the premises of the mission, whether owned or leased, other than such as represent payment for specific services rendered.
2. The exemption from taxation referred to in this article shall not apply to such dues and taxes payable under the law of the receiving State by persons contracting with the sending State or the head of the mission.
Article 24
The archives and documents of the mission shall be inviolable at any time and wherever they may be.
Article 25
The receiving State shall accord full facilities for the performance of the functions of the mission.
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