Poland: Right-wing lawmaker accuses ‘Jewish banker’ of funding protests

Via JTA (h/t CFCA):

A Polish lawmaker charged that recent opposition marches are funded by a “Jewish banker.”

“Apparently the march was financed somehow from the outside. PLN150 million [$38 million] are to be given by the Jews, the Jewish banker, in organization of the march,” Pawel Kukiz said, in an interview on Sunday with Zet Radio.

According to the station, Kukiz was referring to American financier George Soros.

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Tens of thousands of people in several Polish cities protested over the weekend against the country’s new right-wing government. The protesters oppose government reforms that they claim interfere with the independence of the Constitutional Tribunal, a judicial body that determines the constitutionality of Polish law.

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