George Soros Is Still Being Slandered

Why is George Soros so reviled by America’s political right? They not only continue to demonize him as a former Nazi collaborator, but they also charge that he is a Communist because Soros funds a movement to restore democracy in Hungary. And Fox News seems to be obsessed with the fact that his son Alexander Soros is a frequent visitor to the White House.

And now, the George Soros critics seem to be trying to defend their slanders of him by claiming the same was done by liberals against Republican donors. Some of this came in the wake of the outcry over revelations that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted numerous gifts high in value from a private businessman.

The New York Post had an entire editorial devoted to comparing George Soros to the person who gave Clarence Thomas all those gifts.

“George, 92, has spent an estimated $32 billion-with-b on his various worldwide causes in recent decades via his Open Society Foundations and other nonprofits as well as regular seven-figure giving to political action committees,” the Post explained.

“Alexander, 37, has given at least $11 million to lefty PACs in his own right — and delighted in sharing pics with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi,” the paper added about his son.

OK. But where is the equivalency here?

In the case of Justice Thomas, he allegedly accepted personal gifts from one individual who picked up the bill for all sorts of things including luxury trips abroad. The example raised of what George Soros and his son have done is nothing more than donations to political organizations.

The Post did not charge that either Senator Schumer or Nancy Pelosi received lavish gifts from George Soros.

And the conservative journal for intellectuals, the National Review, went on an extended rant whining that the left hypocritically complains of anti-semitism when George Soros is attacked for his liberal beliefs and activism, but always attacked the late billionaire Sheldon Adelson for supporting conservative causes and campaigns including former President Donald Trump.

In a piece called “The George Soros Double Standard,” the National Review moaned “It’s absurd to claim it is anti-Semitic to notice Soros’s political activity. It’s absurd to deny, against all facts, evidence, and statements by Soros himself, the connection between the hedge-funder’s criminal-justice-reform efforts and Alvin Bragg,” and on and on.

Well, here’s the problem.

The National Review ignored the simple fact that what is absurd here is the attacks on George Soros include obscene claims that he was a Nazi collaborator and a member of the Hitler youth during World War II. There are other such ludicrous attacks on his character, but we will not mention them here.

For the record, George Soros was a teenage boy living in Hungary during World War II when his family sent him into hiding with a Christian family. To survive, Soros, who was only 15 when the war ended, had no choice but to join the local Hungarian fascist youth movement, not the Hitler youth.

To accuse the man of being a Nazi collaborator is inherently anti-Semitic.

He is also sternly anti-communist, as his family was forced to flee Hungary after the communist takeover of the country after World War II.

According to his official bio George Soros experienced ethnic and political intolerance firsthand. Born in Hungary in 1930, he lived through the Nazi occupation of 1944–1945, which resulted in the murder of over 500,000 Hungarian Jews. His own Jewish family survived by securing false identity papers, concealing their backgrounds, and helping others do the same. Soros later recalled that “not only did we survive, but we managed to help others.”

“1944, the year of the German occupation, was my formative experience. Instead of submitting to our fate we resisted an evil force that was much stronger than we were—yet we prevailed.” —George Soros