{"id":104449,"date":"2023-05-20T17:05:53","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T15:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=104449"},"modified":"2023-05-20T07:03:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T05:03:14","slug":"28-05-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=104449","title":{"rendered":"This time, every Jew is with George Soros"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>This time, every Jew is with George Soros<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

AMOTZ ASA-EL<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Billionaire investor George Soros arrives at the Schumpeter Award in Vienna, Austria June 21, 2019. \/ (photo credit: REUTERS\/LISI NIESNER)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Dr. Rathenau was struck by at least eight bullets,\u201d reported\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0on June 22, 1922. \u201cA hail of bullets, one of them striking him in the throat and passing upward to the brain,\u201d and several hand grenades left the German foreign minister no chance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The fabled industrialist who headed the AEG conglomerate and ran the German economy during World War I was assassinated not because of his wealth, and not because of his record, but because he was Jewish, which is why his murder is often seen as a harbinger of his country\u2019s Nazi future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Rathenau\u2019s death was particularly proverbial because his solution to what antisemites called \u201cthe Jewish problem\u201d was that the Jews do what he did: assimilate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

No less ironically, Rathenau was in government not because he needed power\u2019s perks, but because, like so many other Jews, he wanted to mend the world, so much so that he advocated banning luxury production, and thus freeing private capital to spur spiritual wealth. Aged 55 when he died, Rathenau\u2019s eventful life thus mixed big business, humanism, and a troubled Jewish soul.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The very same mixture has animated the life of\u00a0financial wiz George Soros.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

A PROTESTER holds a placard against George Soros outside Manhattan Criminal Court, after a message on former US president Donald Trump\u2019s Truth Social account called on supporters to protest, last month. (credit: Shannon Stapleton\/Reuters)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Fortunately, the 93-year-old punching bag of the Populist International is alive and well. Unfortunately, Soros has just been attacked by a major personality in a way that is reminiscent of the antisemitism Rathenau faced in his life, and calls for every Jew to stand by Soros. That includes this writer, who over the years was critical of our generation\u2019s richest Jew.<\/span><\/p>\n

RATHENAU\u2019S effort to flee his Jewish identity was for Soros a part of his childhood, having been raised in interwar Budapest by affluent parents who changed their very Jewish name, Schwartz, to the Hungarian Soros.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The name change didn\u2019t help when the Nazis arrived, and the teenager went through the experience of being hounded for being a Jew, hiding in Budapest until its liberation. Soros then proceeded from a degree in the London School of Economics through a job as a clerk in a merchant bank to the fabled currency-trading career that made of him a billionaire.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The business of currency trading is easy to misinterpret. Economically, many don\u2019t understand the utility of traders judging, through their deals, any government\u2019s economic conduct. Morally, this trade\u2019s detractors don\u2019t understand the risks it involves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In Soros\u2019s case, the two sides of his trade\u2019s image, the fair and the unfair, became apparent in two memorable events. The first happened in 1992\u2019s Black Wednesday, when he dumped \u00a310 billion at a time when Britain, bound to the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, failed to raise interest rates when it should have, thus behaving as if its currency was stronger than it actually was.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The subsequent run on the pound led to its devaluation and to Britain\u2019s abandonment of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism. Soros is believed to have made that day \u00a31b.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The move, before which few knew his name, did not spark antisemitic attacks. It was seen for what it was: a gutsy businessman\u2019s legitimate gamble that flashed a much-needed red light in the face of a financially conceited government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Things were entirely different three years later, when a host of Asian currencies collapsed and Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad said \u201cit is a Jew who triggered the currency collapse.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ironically, it later turned out that Soros did not sell one Malaysian ringgit those days, but that didn\u2019t matter. As happened to him when the Nazis chased him, Soros now unwittingly assumed the role of antisemitism\u2019s stereotypical Jew, the medieval money changer who was allegedly out to swindle, dispossess and conquer the non-Jewish world.<\/span><\/p>\n

While this was happening to his Jewish identity on the financial side of his activity, what was happening on Soros\u2019s philanthropic side was no less ironic, and even more tragic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Antisemitism against Soros cannot be tolerated from anyone<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Ultimately, Soros headed a multibillion-dollar effort so vast that at one point he was the world\u2019s second-largest foreign-aid provider, just after Japan, and ahead of (!) the US.<\/span><\/p>\n

To antisemites this generosity represented not the idealism and generosity with which it is obviously imbued, but the conspiracy theories with which they are infected.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Soros, for his part, could indeed be tactless. As this column argued last decade (\u201cBy George,\u201d 14 July 2017), promoting Muslim immigration into Hungary without living there was both unfair and unwise, and such was also Soros\u2019s claim the previous decade that antisemitism \u201cis the result of the policies of Israel and the United States\u201d (\u201cThe sorrows of George Soros,\u201d 21 November 2003).<\/span><\/p>\n

However, such criticism cannot license denying Soros\u2019s philanthropic greatness, as maverick carmaker Elon Musk just did in a tweet that\u00a0claimed Soros \u201chates humanity\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and that his endeavors are designed \u201cto erode the very fabric of civilization.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Such an underhanded attack must make every Jew, regardless of ideological inclination or political stripe, defend Soros.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Musk, whose own philanthropy has been attacked for reportedly adding up to hardly 1% of his wealth, and for having been occasionally channeled to his business partners, is livid because Soros sold his stake in Musk\u2019s Tesla.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That can explain the impulsive Musk\u2019s anger, but it\u00a0cannot justify libel, let alone antisemitic vitriol<\/a>, even if aimed at the controversial Soros, a mogul whose treatment of his wealth could hardly be more idealistic, generous, and Jewish.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The writer, a Hartman Institute fellow<\/strong>, is the author of the best-selling Mitz\u2019ad Ha\u2019ivelet Hayehudi (The Jewish March of Folly, Yediot Sfarim, 2019), a revisionist history of the Jewish people\u2019s political leadership.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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