Isla Fisher Wins ‘Funniest Poland Holocaust Bill Protest,’ By Going Skiing

Isla Fisher Image by Getty Images

By Jenny Singer February 21, 2018

Human charm-machine Isla Fisher, star of “Wedding Crashers” and spouse of Sacha Baron Cohen, is icing out the Polish government over the nation’s controversial new Holocaust bill.

The bill, which passed on Thursday in the Polish senate, would make it illegal to blame any Polish people for any crimes related to the Holocaust. Fisher, an Australian comedian born to Scottish parents in Oman, who converted to Judaism in 2007 when she married Baron Cohen, has had hands down the best comic approach to the horrifying legislation.

Ever since I heard that Poles were “completely uninvolved” in the Holocaust, I decided to ski without them. #presidentMateuszMorawiecki

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A post shared by Isla Fisher (@islafisher) on Feb 19, 2018 at 3:28pm PST

A topical Winter Olympics-themed burn of the Polish government over Holocaust denial? It’s all downhill (skiing) from here.

Jenny Singer is a writer for the Forward. You can reach her at [email protected] or on Twitter @jeanvaljenny

Jenny Singer is a freelance writer with pieces in Vox, the Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Teen Vogue, and more. She was previously a staff writer at Glamour and the Forward, and she’s currently getting an MFA in nonfiction writing at the University of Iowa.

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