Pawel Kukiz, a singer and member of the Sejm, Poland's parliament, allegedc that recent opposition rallies were in part 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.
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, the country's supreme court.
The singer's populist party, Kukiz’15, came in third with 20 percent of the vote in this year’s presidential elections. In the fall, he was elected to parliament. He supports the government of the PiS party, although it has an outright majority on its own in the Sejm.
Earlier this month a rally of government supporters in the capital Warsaw featured, among other things, a placard that mocked those claiming to defend democracy as “the committee to defend Jewish-Communist wealth.”
In Wroclaw, Poland’s fourth largest city, crowds at a parallel demonstration shouted, “Wroclaw is being de-Polanized as the Jews are buying up homes in the city.”
At another rally in Wroclaw in November, to protest march against a European Union plan that would see Poland admit some 7,000 Syrian refugees, demonstrators set fire to a previously prepared effigy of a Hasidic Jew holding the EU flag.
