Dershowitz on Soros

Few people have done more to promote crime in American cities than George Soros. The billionaire hedge fund manager launched his own campaign to elect progressive prosecutors in places like San Francisco, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, St. Louis and Los Angeles. The result has been a crime wave across America’s largest cities. 

Soros, who spent World War II under the protection of a Gestapo officer in Hungary, might well be taxed with hatred of the nation. I am not suggesting that the twelve-year old Soros was responsible for Gestapo behavior. And yet, how did his protector influence his mind? A child who was saved by the Gestapo might have believed that the wrong side won World War II.

Now, Soros has come under extensive criticism for his foray into law enforcement. To which his defenders have replied that those who are criticizing him are anti-Semitic. You would never know it from his behavior, but Soros is Jewish.

Obviously, it is patently absurd to say that you cannot criticize someone who is Jewish without being a bigot. The last person to receive such criticism was Elon Musk, who compared Soros to a fictional character named Magneto.

To that Alan Dershowitz responded in the Wall Street Journal yesterday:

Mr. Soros also has had a pernicious influence on American domestic issues, such as funding leftist candidates for district attorney, who have politicized law enforcement. Unlike Mr. Musk, I haven’t compared Mr. Soros to Magneto, a Marvel supervillain who, like Mr. Soros, survived the Holocaust. I wouldn’t make that comparison because I had never heard of Magneto. But I agree with Mr. Musk that Mr. Soros’s acts contribute to fraying the “fabric of civilization.” And Mr. Musk has shown no hostility toward Israel or the Jewish people.

Of course, Soros has damaged the reputation of Jewish Americans, moreso since he has tried to use his Jewishness as a shield against all criticism. 

Dershowitz declares that Soros is having a malign influence on the world. One should be able to say so, if only in the interest of dissociating Jews from his deviant political influence.

Unfortunately, there is more. Dershowitz explains that Soros has been funding two important anti-Israeli organizations, Human Rights Watch and J Street.

As for the first, it seems to have specialized in bashing Israel. Dershowitz explained:

For years HRW critiqued the denial of human rights by all countries based on two criteria: the seriousness of the violations in any particular nation, and the inability of the nation’s citizens to protest and remedy such violations. But in 1993 Kenneth Roth became executive director and turned HRW into an organization that specialized in demonizing Israel.

He continued:

Mr. Roth has deployed “human rights” as a weapon against Israel. His organization’s one-sided reports were used to justify selective condemnation of Israel by the United Nations and its divisions. They were circulated on university campuses around the world. Despite their obvious anti-Israel bias, supporters pointed to Mr. Roth’s Jewish heritage to lend credibility to his anti-Israel accusations.

Apparently, in 2010, Soros pledged to give $100 million to Human Rights Watch.

As for the J Street group, the story is similar:

Despite its claim to be a progressive pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian organization, J Street has done much to turn most progressive and some liberal Democrats—including members of Congress, academics and media figures—against Israel. Last year Haaretz reported that Mr. Soros contributed $1 million to J Street’s super PAC, “20 times larger than any previous donation J Street Action Fund received.”

So, Soros does not just fund progressive prosecutors, people who have allowed crime to run rampant in American cities. When his supporters defended him because he was Jewish, they might have noticed that he had been supporting anti-Israeli causes.

Dershowitz notes:

In a January article for the Jewish News Service, Farley Weiss, a former president of the National Council of Young Israel, wrote: “Soros’s defenders try to shut down criticism of the billionaire by claiming it is antisemitic because Soros himself is Jewish. But no one has financed more destructive attacks on Israel and the American Jewish community than Soros.”

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