Washington thinks criticizing the financier is anti-Semitic, while the Israeli government thinks supporting him is anti-Semitic George Soros addresses the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, May 24, 2022 © AFP / Fabrice Coffrini
The US and Israeli anti-Semitism envoys have taken opposing positions on whether supporters or critics of Jewish financier George Soros is anti-Semitic. The argument kicked off when Twitter CEO Elon Musk compared Soros to a cartoon supervillain.
In a tweet on Monday, Musk said that Soros reminds him of “Magneto,” a mutant-supremacist scientist from Marvel’s ‘X-Men’ universe. When a commenter pointed out that Magneto was depicted – like Soros – as a Holocaust survivor and that both have “good intentions,” Musk doubled down.
Elon musk is going after George Soros. I love it but Please be careful Elon. That man is a killer https://t.co/EcsqxfP06P
— Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) May 18, 2023
“You assume they are good intentions,” he wrote. “They are not. He wants to erode the very fabric of civilization. Soros hates humanity.”
Musk was quickly accused of anti-Semitism, with Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt declaring that by comparing the billionaire “to a Jewish supervillain,” Musk would “embolden extremists.”
The Israeli government disagreed. “The Israeli government and the vast majority of Israeli citizens see Elon Musk as an amazing entrepreneur and a role model,” Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli tweeted on Thursday, adding that “criticism of Soros – who finances the most hostile organizations to the Jewish people and the state of Israel is anything but anti-Semitism, quite the opposite!”
Soros has donated more than $32 billion to liberal political causes through his Open Society Foundations NGO, and was the largest donor in last year’s midterm elections in the US, gifting $128 million to Democratic Party candidates and organizations. Soros funds a number of Palestinian activist groups that accuse the Israeli state of war crimes, and several international organizations that promote boycotts of Israeli goods and sanctions against its leaders.
“Irrespective of how one feels about George Soros’s politics or policies, it is entirely disingenuous to deny that many ad hominem attacks on him rely on classic antisemitic tropes and rhetoric,” US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt tweeted on Friday.
“In bygone eras, the antisemites invoked the Rothschild family to advance their conspiracies about Jews. Today they use Soros to do so,” she declared.
Neither Soros nor his Open Society Foundations have responded to Musk’s comments. Asked on Tuesday whether he was worried his controversial tweets would drive advertisers away from Twitter, Musk told CNBC News “I don’t care. I’ll say what I want to say, and if the consequences are losing money, so be it.” (RT)
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Judaism is a religion, not a race. Soros has repeatedly declared himself an atheist. Hence, he is not a Jew, except when he tries to hide behind anti-Semitism for sympathy.
correct.
safe words, per prescribed & imbibed understanding ~ now there’s a religion ~ are for those being done to. but churches will sell dispensations cuz just about everybody has a price.
4″ S&W Model 28, a fine fine weapon.
uh oh
Atheists are merely Satanists lacking the courage to declare themselves…either to the world OR themselves.
C.S. Lewis had the right of it from the start.
“Judaism is a religion, not a race”
I see you are stupid.
Not only is he a Jew, but his politics are virtually identical to those held by every other Jew.
You are incorrect. Jews are indeed a race. Just like Arabs are a race.
Soros is an evil thing. IMO hooks to be more demonic trans-human that a man.
The Rothchilds? A synagogue of satan who say they are Jews but are not?
If one looks deep enough I am sure they will find they own the ‘Federal’ Reserve.
That anyone in US government stands up FOR soros is a really bad sign! I guess the corrupt defends the corrupt….
SamFox
“Come over to the Dark Side. We’ve got cookies!”
Glenn Beck has been exposing Soros, “EVIL”, using the word frequently and rightly so for years.
God bless that dry drunk egomaniac. He keeps trying.
I say we give his skin a helping hand.
Sorry, couldn’t find any good pics to include.
Could it be that the Israeli gov’t and its pals, are simply kissing up to Musk as they always have when a person is in a position to help/hurt them? Could Musk, with his twitter and rockets, actually be someone they need at the moment? (At least until they can undermine or replace him?)
Same as it ever was…
American jews: “What do those jews in the Jewish State know about anti-semitism? WE are the experts!”
I love this shit, I really do. It’s like upper middle class suburban whites telling everyone what blacks need. American politics is now totally based on complaining the loudest and hardest.
You have to admit that the view is always clearer from above.
If that sounded racist to you, then you ARE the problem.
Criticizing and/or supporting Soros is anti-semitic? Ergo, whatever you do or not for this JeШ is anti-semitic. No matter what all bases are covered and the results are in: whatever it is, it’s anti-semitic!
a variation on Catch-22.
Wait. What?
Lord Eyebags is causing trouble among his own minions? How can this be?
Would any among the cog-dis community like to respond?
George Soros just like Bill gates is a manufactured hate figure, a bogie man created to draw the flak for globalist policies. Everyone is supposed to hate him.
Central Casting is fucking KILLIN IT ! Can they pick em or what?
Bolsheviks and Zionist are always at odds…just Left vs Right…no new news here.
This movement among the Jews is not new. From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Emma Goldman (United States)… this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century; and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.”
Writing on ‘Zionism versus Bolshevism’ in the Illustrated Sunday Herald, February 1920
“I will not pretend that, if I had to choose between communism and nazism, I would choose communism.”
Speaking in the House of Commons, autumn 1937″\
“I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilised tribes.”
Writing as president of the Air Council, 1919
“This movement among the Jews is not new. From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Emma Goldman (United States)… this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century; and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.”
Writing on ‘Zionism versus Bolshevism’ in the Illustrated Sunday Herald, February 1920
Research by Amy Iggulden
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2002/nov/28/features11.g21
Pretend divisions can serve the useful purpose of outting or tripping up your enemies.