"Why don’t Poles like banks? President of major bank blames it on ‘anti-Semitism’ because Jews were the ‘only moneylenders’
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"There was a sharp war of words, for instance, with Israel and Poland back in 2019, which involved former Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz stating that Poles “imbibe anti-Semitism in their mothers’ milk.” It did not help afterwards that op-eds appeared in the Israeli press affirming that this statement is true.
The Polish publication Do Rzeczy writes that, in light of the banker’s statement, “it is worth recalling that the average interest rate on new loans in Poland is the highest in Europe. Moreover, according to data from the Central Statistical Office, in 2024 the net financial result of banks amounted to PLN 42,001 million, which means an increase of 51.9 percent year-on-year.”
The balance sheet total of banks at the end of 2024 was 10.8 percent higher than a year earlier and amounted to PLN 3.317 trillion, or €773 billion."
https://rmx.news/article/why-dont-poles-like-banks-president-of-major-bank-blames-it-on-anti-semitism-because-jews-were-the-only-moneylenders/
