Newsweek editor-at-large Josh Hammer and Missouri attorney general candidate Will Scharf have created Jews Against Soros, a new activism group seeking to raise awareness about Hungarian billionaire George Soros and his massive financing of left wing causes and organizations deemed hostile to Israel.
Hammer stressed the importance of shielding criticism of Soros from accusations of anti-Semitism, which have haunted those who criticize Soros for spending hundreds of millions to support left wing causes and candidates in the United States, in a Newsweek column unveiling the new organization.
“George Soros is an evil man,” Hammer began. “To straightforwardly opine in this manner is not to traffick in antisemitism or noxious Jew-baiting. It is simply to share one’s perspective about one of the most influential political donors, “philanthropists,” and social activists in the world—someone who doles out countless sums to undermine and reshape in his dystopian image entire countries, spreading across at least five separate continents.”
"We Are Jews Against Soros."
My syndicated column for the week, on the Jewish pushback against George Soros and the new group @AntiSorosJews (https://t.co/b4Dol8KvJj), which @willscharf and I launched last week.
Read here. 👇🏼 https://t.co/yV9KzihuSt
— Josh Hammer (@josh_hammer) June 9, 2023
The columnist lamented that criticisms of Soros are generally dismissed as vile anti-Semitism, and noted the financier’s dramatic influence on U.S. and Israeli politics:
Soros directly spent $128.5 million during last fall’s U.S. midterm elections, making him that election cycle’s single largest individual donor. He has spent $40 million trying to elect radically left-wing “reform prosecutors”—something he has been fully transparent about, defending it under his own byline in a Wall Street Journal op-ed last summer—across the country. He has been dishearteningly successful in that endeavor, successfully electing 75 district attorneys—such as Alvin Bragg in New York City, Chesa Boudin in San Francisco (since mercifully recalled), and Kim Foxx in Chicago—who oversee a decivilizational (and oxymoronic) prosecutorial agenda of not prosecuting violent and property crimes. Simply put, Soros is more responsible than any man in the world for the descent of some of America’s most iconic cities into anarchic urban hellholes.
The globalist archetype has routinely given massive sums to anti-sovereignty groups that seek to obliterate national borders, from the U.S. to his native Hungary to Israel. Speaking of Israel, the Jewish Soros harbors a unique disdain for the world’s only Jewish state: He has been a massive bankroller of the antisemitic “Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions” global movement, his foundations have supported internationally recognized Palestinian-Arab terrorist organizations such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and he is the single largest donor ever to J Street and its affiliated PAC, which routinely peddle anti-Israel/pro-Palestinian agitprop and exist for the sole reason of providing “Jewish” cover for Democrats to bash Israel.
Under a heading rhetorically asking “Why does this website exist?” on the Jews Against Soros website Hammer and Scharf explain, “We are Jews who have had enough of George Soros and his malign, leftist influence on American politics. We are Jews who are also sick and tired of the left accusing anyone who criticizes Soros of being antisemitic.” They stress that “There is nothing antisemitic about condemning George Soros.”
“Leftism isn’t Judaism,” the website asserts, “and being anti-leftist is not the same as being Antisemitic. Period.”
