A “today in history” tweet by Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum highlighting how Jews were forced to wear a yellow badge during World War Two sparked a firestorm in Poland on Monday, with the Israeli ambassador being summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Warsaw.

The incident began when Yad Vashem tweeted 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,” with a link to an article on the topic.

Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski appealed to Yad Vashem to make it clear in the post that Poland had been “German-occupied” at the time.

Yad Vashem responded to the criticism on social media by resharing the post and specifying that: “As noted by many users and specified explicitly

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