NEW YORK (JNS) – The recent incident featuring Twitter owner Elon Musk comparing nonagenarian financier and philanthropist George Soros to the supervillain Magneto again opened debate about where legitimate ideological criticism of the prolific political funder ends and antisemitic hate begins.
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Now, two Jewish conservatives have launched a grassroots initiative to clarify.
Newsweek senior editor-at-large Josh Hammer and Missouri Attorney General candidate Will Scharf have launched “Jews Against Soros.”
Their new website says: “There is nothing antisemitic about identifying the many ways that George Soros and his network of organizations fund the radical left. Leftism isn’t Judaism, and being anti-leftist is not the same as being Antisemitic. Period.”
The site then lays out the 92-year-old Hungarian Holocaust survivor’s history of funding political activism, including support of the anti-Israel BDS movement.
Hammer tweeted: “Soros has dedicated his life to fomenting American anarchism, undermining Israel’s territorial integrity, and destabilizing Western nation-states more generally.”
Scharf told The Daily Caller, “We plan to build a grassroots army of Jews committed to standing up against Soros and his brand of leftism.”
Bravo
About time.
I’ve been saying for YEARS that Soros is the funder of EVERY anti Israel and anti American cause singlehandedly
Count me in.
Can’t wait for ADL and the other so called Jewish organizations of the left to attack these two gentlemen
HATZLUCHE
Sorow is root of all evil.
He’s an evil person
About time. I’m all in.
My dad was the same age and in the same part of the world at the same time. Similar brains. At the same age as George was betraying fellow Jews to the Nazis, dad attempted to derail a Nazi train by himself. Lucky not to be shot on the spot.
Now, who is the Mensch and who is the schmuck?
He rated all the Jews back in Germany so many Jews were sent to gas chambers because of him.