The MP denied they referred to the billionaire financier and philanthropist, George Soros. He makes an easy and a useful enemy: a liberal, an internationalist, the 29th richest man in the world – and Jewish. Rightwing media claimed Soros “brought in protesters from all over the country” for the anti-Trump Women’s March last January. The philanthropist’s Jewish roots and successful career as an international financier mean he fits easily in the role of what the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, the Jewish rights group, called the “global, manipulative Jewish monster who can be blamed for all evils and problems”. Reviving old antisemitic conspiracy theories, Russian media, for example, have routinely focused on Soros’s Jewish background; the state-funded broadcaster RT tweeted in 2016 that he “did not get his pound of flesh this time”.

Source: The Guardian February 08, 2018 17:22 UTC