Posted on 07/13/2023 2:32:27 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Former US President Donald Trump was under fire on Thursday over a campaign fundraising email depicting the Jewish financier and philanthropist George Soros as a puppet master controlling the Biden Administration from the shadows.
A crude graphic dispatched to supporters from Trump’s campaign to return to the White House in 2024 showed the 92-year-old Soros with an outstretched hand dangling Biden from a set of puppet strings. An accompanying text had Biden saying, “I thought when I got to be President, I’d get to give orders. But, I take more orders than I ever did.” A large Chinese flag is placed in the background behind Soros.
While the graphic contains no obviously Jewish images or symbols, Jewish groups and several commentators pointed out that the display is essentially a “dog whistle” — invoking age-old antisemitic tropes about shadowy Jewish control of finance and media through the person of one of the best-known Jewish financiers in the world. Soros, who survived the Nazi Holocaust as a child, has increasingly become a central hate figure for nationalist conservatives around the world, particularly in his native Hungary, where the right-wing government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban has long promoted the anti-Soros campaign now being emulated by Trump.
In a tweet responding to the Soros image, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) described it as not “just disturbing, it’s indisputably dangerous and reprehensible.”
Let’s be clear, these are antisemitic tropes about Jewish power and are a gateway into hardcore antisemitic conspiracy theories,” the ADL declared, noting as well that the Trump campaign continues to send fundraising emails “that feature language and imagery of George Soros controlling puppet strings and secret globalist cabals.”
Others commenting on the image included Alex Hearn — a British journalist and member of the group Labour Against Antisemitism (LAS), which has pushed back against antisemitism on the far left of the British Labour Party. Hearn argued that while criticism of Soros is not antisemitic per se, Trump’s graphic utilized “an idea popularized by the Nazis…’a secret shadow president behind the curtain pulling the strings’.” In a further tweet that showed the image of Soros alongside antisemitic caricatures from the previous century, Hearn commented: “It is the fantasy of the evil Jew secretly running the world by undermining countries. That is why it looks so similar to Nazi propaganda.”
Attacks on Soros and the alleged impact of his financial heft have been a regular feature of Trump’s campaign. A fundraising email sent in February decried Soros as a “left-wing billionaire” who “thinks he can single-handedly BUY Joe Biden’s second term.” The following month, an email from Trump appealed to “patriots“, claiming: “I’m now being ATTACKED for exposing George Soros and the millions and millions of dollars he’s spent to BUY the White House. But let me be perfectly clear: I WILL NOT BE SILENCED for calling out the billionaire puppeteer who has wreaked havoc on our borders, our justice system and our nation.”
While Trump’s term in office was marked by an unabashedly pro-Israel policy that included moving the US Embassy in the Jewish state from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, his association with far right figures and willingness to adopt far right memes has alarmed many in the Jewish community. Last November, Jewish groups including the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) slammed Trump for hosting the antisemitic hip-hop mogul Kanye West and his sidekick Nick Fuentes, an outspoken Holocaust denier, at his Mar a Lago resort in Florida.
In 2019 — three years before his meeting with Trump — Fuentes used the “analogy” of “baked cookies” to dispute the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust.
“How long would it take you to make 6 million? Hmm, I don’t know, it certainly wouldn’t be five years, right? The math doesn’t seem to add up…. I don’t think you’d result in 6 million, maybe 200,000-300,000 cookies,” he said.
Under fire from a dude in the UK and the ADL. WOW!!!!
Actually that has been a long-running claim the left has used. Not something that has just cropped up. I’ve heard this same argument for years now. It’s akin to the cries of racism, the go to choice to stop the discussions they want to quash.
Why are you trying to downplay criticism of Soros as unfounded?
Most people have no idea that Soros is Jewish. And no one despises him
because he's Jewish. It's not as if suddenly everyone would start admiring
Soros if he were Presbyterian or Hindu.
The problem with Soros isn't that he's a Jew.
It's that he's still a Nazi!
Fixed it.
Yep, funny that it’s only the left that can hear these supposedly racist “dog whistles” which are supposed to be designed so that only racists can detect them...
Criticism of George Soros is quite correct. Soros has done terrible things by his campaign against the rule of law.
But I don’t think Soros is the puppet-master looming over the White House. I think the man in that picture should be Barack Obama, and Soros is just a safer target. And I think that Trump knows that.
In any event, accusing Trump of anti-semitism is ridiculous nonsense. Trump’s daughter and grandchildren are Jewish, and his record is clear as the most pro-Israel President we’ve ever had.
What about us Jews who have been critizing Soros with the same words?
Dear president Trump.
Depict George as a Nazi collaborator. Kushner knows term, “kapo.” I’m sure he could produce the ad.
Jewish survivors of the death camps know the term all too well.
5.56mm
The wicked flee though no one pursues
I’m jewish and no offense taken.
Stop posting this crap.
“This one particular Demonic group talked about in Revelation does there antichrist work. Then, when they get called out they hide behind Antisemtism. They need to be exposed.”
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Well that’s pretty much what the trick is that is admittedly incorporated by the majority of secular Jews to silence any opposition to their deviancy - hiding behind “anti-Semitism.”
It’s exactly like the intimidation the majority of Left blacks use to silence any opposition…“that’s racist” to supplant any criticism of their violent heathen culture.
It’s exactly like the intimidation the majority of Left women use to silence any opposition “that’s misogyny” or “patriarchy” or “sexist”…etc(Left women run a close second to blacks claiming victimhood).
It’s exactly like the intimidation the sexually deviant use to silence any opposition to their tyranny… “that’s homophobic” or “that’s transphobic” or “that’s theocracy.”
While I realize the Leftists (Ukraine War supporters) will have a fit over this, perhaps it’s time we DISCUSS Soros and what he did to other Jews in World War 2.
“The ADL lost its way long ago.”
Defending Soros, given his record of collaboration with Nazi German is about 2 steps removed from defending Hitler and his bunch.
Does the ADL REALLY HATE conservatives this much? Certainly seems to be the case here.
“Once again, Trump is OVER THE TARGET.”
If the 2024 election winds up being a referendum on Soros and the damage he did to Jews in WW2 and the damage he’s now doing to this country, then it would convince me that there is HOPE for this country, regardless of what the Leftists (Ukraine War supporters) say.
AND...
“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
~Plato
Indeed.
Well observed. Karl Marx is also sometimes referred to as Jewish, though he wrote early poems celebrating Satan.
Years back, we visited the Pink Synagogue memorial in Prague, wherein on the walls are painted names -- victims of the National Socialists. Among the names were a family or two with the name, Hitler.
Source" https://www.jewishmuseum.cz/en/explore/permanent-exhibitions/monument-of-shoah-victims/
Why is this important?
Because Hitler's born name was not Hitler.
Hitler's father, Alois Hitler (1837–1903), was the illegitimate child of Maria Anna Schicklgruber. The baptismal register did not show the name of his father, and Alois initially bore his mother's surname, 'Schicklgruber'. In 1842, Johann Georg Hiedler married Alois's mother. Alois was brought up in the family of Hiedler's brother, Johann Nepomuk Hiedler.[6] In 1876, Alois was made legitimate and his baptismal record annotated by a priest to register Johann Georg Hiedler as Alois's father (recorded as "Georg Hitler"). Alois then assumed the surname "Hitler", also spelled 'Hiedler', 'Hüttler', or 'Huettler'. The name is probably based on the German word Hütte (lit., "hut"), and likely has the meaning "one who lives in a hut". Wiki.
"The Pinkas Memorial is dedicated to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust from the Czech lands. Their names are inscribed on the interior walls of the synagogue."
https://www.jewishmuseum.cz/en/explore/permanent-exhibitions/monument-of-shoah-victims/
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