Rafal Pankowski, who heads the anti-racism organisation ‘Never Again’, told AP that it was “pretty obvious to anyone who watched” TVP’s report that the “foreign lobby” and “rich groups” were references to Jews.
The report also linked Mr Trzaskowski to Jewish Hungarian-American investor George Soros - a regular target of far-right antisemitic conspiracy theories - saying that the Warsaw Mayor had once studied on a Soros scholarship.
Tuesday’s broadcast also noted that Mr Trzaskowski had negotiated Poland’s acceptance of 7,000 refugees in 2015, illustrating the comments with clip of rioting in Western countries.
This is not the first time that TVP has been criticised for antisemitism during the campaign.
On June 5, TVP broadcast a report attacking Mr Trzaskowski as “against Catholics” and cited a remark from 2018 in which he professed his belief in “the God of Spinoza”.
The report described Baruch Spinoza as a “Jewish philosopher” who is “condemned by Orthodox Jews”.
