Poland's Parliament amended on 27 June the controversial Holocaust speech law that makes it a crime to suggest that the country played a role in Nazi atrocities. The law, only four months old, was amended at the behest of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, who convened an emergency session to redraft the legislation. The move appears to be a direct concession to the intense international backlash against the law, particularly from the United States and Israel, with one Polish politician admitting that "[t]he international discussion, especially in the United States, had an impact."