Fox News deleted a cartoon depicting leftist billionaire activist George Soros as a puppet master and the Anti-Defamation League accused the news network of wading into antisemitic tropes.
The cartoon shows Soros manipulating a Democratic district attorney who is holding up a sign with the words “defund the police” on it, and a Democratic attorney general holding a sign that says “no bail.”
“As we have told @FoxNews numerous times, casting a Jewish individual as a puppet master who manipulates national events for malign purposes conjures up longstanding antisemitic tropes about Jewish power and contributes to the normalization of antisemitism,” the ADL tweeted.
A frequent target of right-wing ire, Soros – who is a Holocaust survivor – is often the target of many conservatives, upset at his funding of leftist candidates and agendas.
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With friends like these extremists(FOX), who needs enemies?
soros is probably today the biggest self hating Jew alive even more than mike bloomberg so am not sure what is wrong with this.
What’s wrong? He’s a puppet master because of his money. Cartoon doesn’t show anything against Jewishness.
The cartoon depicts and names Soros, but there’s nothing particularly Jewish about the cartoon or name. Maybe the ADL is more concerned with protecting Soros than protecting Jews.
How was it actually anti-semitic. It is anti-Democrats and anti-WOKE, which apparently ADL considers to be Jewish. In our community (the frum community, the only element of the Jewish community that matters in the long rule) most people are opposed to the liberal Democrats and the WOKE movements). I suspect the overwhelming consensus in the (real) Jewish community is the policy should be well funded, and well armed, and that except for first-time, non-violent offenders, bail should be high enough to keep criminals off the streets.
Cartoon says it all. And shows no reflection on Judaism because soros so far removed from his religion.
@karlbenmarx
Why is he a self hating jew? Because he supports liberal causes?
A. Soros deserves every criticism he gets plus more.
B. Soros’ defenders on the hard-left regularly attempt to falsely describe any criticism or mockery of that lowlife Soros as antisemitism.
The ADL has become a far left outlet bereft of any meaning or value since that Obama-hack took over the ADL.
Antisemitism is hating Jews because they are Jews. Just because Soros happens to be Jewish, it should not prevent people from telling truth about him.ets not get onto the crying racism bandwagon.
The sheer ignorance and stupidity of these comments is a perfect indicator as to why the lack of even a remotely adequate secular education in most yeshivos is so dangerous. The fact that so many commenters can’t see anthing wrong with this cartoon is worrisome but not surprising unfortunately.
Marxist
He said himself he aided the nazis get loot from Jews
He was called a godchild by the nazi
It is accurate, not anti Semitic.
How much funding does Soros provide for the ADL?
As an aside, the ADL has done more to perpetuate anti-semitism than prevent it.
Unfortunately, the commentators here don’t understand the implications of this cartoon. Soros has long been a target of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and tropes. The idea that Jews are puppeteers and control the “world order” is one of the most common anti-semitic tropes at least since the publication of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”. I don’t know if the cartoonist had anti-semitic intent(he probably didn’t), however, the cartoon certainly fits well within these anti-semitic narratives. Kudos to the ADL for calling it out.
Soros is an admitted Nazi collaborator.
LOL, This cartoon was in this weeks Yated!
Pekak: Any by your post, you are an “admitted” am haoretz.
These crazy allegations about Soros (who was barely in his teens during the Shoah) surfaced years ago among some of the most lunatic right wing conspiracy nutcases and embraced by certified Trumpkopfs like Alex Jones, Trumpkopf Jr. and even a total nutcase like Roseanne Barr. However, given his wealth and unapologetic liberal posture, these anti-semitic tropes make for great media attention.
Ketanah: He talked about it in interviews. He showed the Nazis where Jews were hiding.
Mam is correct. If most of these comments show what a yeshiva only education produce, then it is time to jump ship and create a system that produces real Bnei Torah.
1. Fox should not have withdrawn the cartoon, and should put it right back up. It is not even slightly antisemitic and there is nothing to apologize for. The ADL is simply playing politics and should be ignored.
2. Yes, historically antisemites have portrayed the Jews as puppet masters. SO WHAT? It’s IRRELEVANT. To argue that because they have done that, ACTUAL puppet masters who happen to have been born to Jewish mothers must be allowed to get away with it, and telling the truth about their crimes is antisemitic, is dishonest, disgusting, and even worse it makes actual antisemitism seem legitimate.
3. Soros IS a puppet master. The cartoon is telling the simple truth about him. Nobody can deny this.
4. Soros is a terrible person, and it would have been entirely in character if he had collaborated with the nazis. But there is no evidence that he did so. No, he did not “say himself he aided the nazis get loot from Jews”. Though the fact that he was in his teens at the time is irrelevant; how would that have stopped him from collaborating? Do you imagine there were no teenage collaborators?! But the fact is that in the TV interview all this is based on, he did not say he helped the nazis. All he really said was that he did not suffer from Survivors’ Guilt, which is a good thing because that is a psychological disorder that we wish nobody suffered from.
(5. It’s also misleading to call him a “Holocaust survivor’. He was a Jewish teenager who lived through the year the Holocaust came to Hungary without being caught, but I don’t think that alone makes someone a “survivor”. He wasn’t personally affected by it, he was in little danger of being caught, as he said it was something he saw happening around him. He neither helped nor hindered it. And he deserves neither praise nor criticism for it. Save the criticism for what he did later in life.)
There is very good evidence that Jack the Ripper was a Jew, Aaron Kosminski. But antisemites throughout the ages have portrayed Jews as serial killers. Is it therefore antisemitic to accuse Kosminski of these murders, no matter how strong the evidence?! Of course not. And it is not antisemitic to accuse George Soros of creating the current crime crisis by installing his puppets as prosecutors, because that is exactly what he has in fact done and is doing.
Pekak, no he did not. He never did it, and he never spoke about it in interviews. You are simply telling a lie. That is forbidden, even about a wicked person, which he is.