Posted on 11/26/2019 4:50:56 AM PST by Kaslin
The former senior director for European and Russian affairs for the Trump administration, Fiona Hill, testified last week in the House impeachment hearings.
At one point, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., asked her: "Would you say that these different theories, these conspiracy theories that have been targeting you, spun in part by folks like Mr. Stone as well as fueled by Rudy Giuliani and others, basically have a tinge of anti-Semitism to them at least?"
This was Ms. Hill's response: "Well, certainly when they involve George Soros, they do. I'd just like to point out that in the early 1900s, the czarist secret police produced something called 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,' which, actually, you can still obtain on the internet. And you can buy it, actually, sometimes, at bookshops in Russia and elsewhere. This is the longest-running anti-Semitic trope that we have in history. And the trope against Mr. Soros, George Soros, was also created for political purposes, and this is the new 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion.' I actually intended to write something about this before I was actually invited to come into the administration. Because it's an absolute outrage."
What is really an "absolute outrage" is that anyone -- especially someone testifying in Congress before a national audience -- would compare criticism of George Soros with "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." For those unfamiliar with "The Protocols," they are the most infamous anti-Semitic forgery in history. Believed to have been written by Russian czarist officials in the 19th century, they purported to be a document written by Jews that outlined a Jewish plot to take over the world.
"The Protocols" are a lie, and their sole intent was to create anti-Semitism.
Criticism of Soros is rarely a lie, and its intent is rarely to create anti-Semitism.
George Soros is a billionaire whose Open Society Foundations, with offices in 70 countries, is the world's major funder of left-wing causes.
If Soros were to come from a Lutheran or Catholic family, there would be no less criticism of him. While it is always possible that some people attack Soros solely because he was born into a Jewish family (he does not identify as a Jew), there are few such people.
Much of Israel's Jewish population, for example, loathes Soros. Are they anti-Semites?
Moreover, Soros loathes Israel. As Joshua Muravchik reported in the Wall Street Journal, "(I)n a speech ... to the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, Mr. Soros likened the behavior of Israel to that of the Nazis ..."
"George Soros," the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement in July 2017, "continuously undermines Israel's democratically elected governments by funding organizations that defame the Jewish state and seek to deny it the right to defend itself."
Martin Peretz, former longtime editor-in-chief of The New Republic, wrote: "Soros is ostentatiously indifferent to his own Jewishness. He is not a believer. He has no Jewish communal ties. He certainly isn't a Zionist. He told Connie Bruck in The New Yorker -- testily, she recounted -- that 'I don't deny the Jews their right to a national existence -- but I don't want to be part of it.'"
Hill's charge that criticism of Soros is "the new 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion'" is vile. It is what leftists like Hill -- who was a member of the board of Soros' Open Society Institute from 2000 to 2006 -- always do when a fellow leftist (who is not a Christian white male) is criticized. Leftists constantly labeled criticism of former President Barack Obama "racist" and branded criticism of Hillary Clinton "sexist" and "misogynist."
Their goal is to inoculate leftists from criticism.
In addition to being an illegitimate tactic to silence critics, what Hill said was immoral because it reduces the evil of real anti-Semitism. The left has already cheapened the terms "Nazi," "racist" and "white supremacist." You can now add "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" to the list. If "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is the same as attacking George Soros, then "The Protocols" were not all that bad.
Jewish groups like the Anti-Defamation League should have censured Hill. But they won't because so many Jewish groups -- once run by liberals and conservatives who cared deeply about Israel and the Jewish people -- are today run by many Soros-admiring leftists, whose primary commitment is to further left-wing causes.
In fact, it is close to certain that the leaders of most American (not Israeli) Jewish organizations agree with Fiona Hill.
I began a 2007 column on George Soros this way: "What do Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, Noam Chomsky and George Soros have in common? They were/are all radicals, born to Jewish parents, had no Jewish identity and hurt Jews (not to mention non-Jews)."
Criticizing George Soros is no more inherently anti-Semitic than attacking Marx, Trotsky or Chomsky.
As the left sees it, isolating Israel for rhetorical attack, even supporting its economic strangulation -- e.g., through the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement -- is not anti-Semitic. But attacking George Soros is.
Such is the broken state of the moral compass of the left and people like Fiona Hill.
” Why wasn’t he?”
When all else fails, follow the money.
“Soros should have been deported ages ago. Why wasn’t he?”
Good question.
And why has the Muslim Brotherhood not been outlawed in our country?
Soros floods Democrats with money for campaigns. He partially owns the Democrat Party
I believe he has citizenship here. But why is he not condemned for manipulating elections? He is probably doing it legally, injecting millions into small races (attorneys general, etc) in many states.
She looks just like Snape in Harry Potter
Are you kidding? He owns the Democratic Party. He can kill orphans in the street and still get prime seats at the convention.
Certainly this is the most that his name has ever been spoken of and should be a wake up call to those who have never heard of him and I suspect that’s plenty of people. I have a liberal friend who was amazed at the story of Alinsky - totally unheard of to her. Why this knucklehead hasn’t been deported is anyone’s guess but it’s apparently due to his money. I’ve always heard that Russia and Israel both have warrants out for his arrest and if Israel could round up Eichmann, they certainly ought to be able to corral Soros and get him off everyone’s back - except I guess his empire would carry on.
Hill’s criticism of anyone criticizing Soros was downright SICK! She has (like all the other witnesses) a pretty high opinion of herself. Spare us, lady - we can do without your bias especially in any government job.
“”I believe he has citizenship here””
I’m not sure but probably Lucky Luciano was a citizen also but we deported him. Soros is no better or different! A CROOK!
Soros is heavily involved in Singapore seen reports that he also holds a Singapore passport. Like to know if that is true.
Soros needs to be very careful as rich as he is he is the enemy of state of the most proweful Nations on Earth and he can’t devalue the dollar so he resorts to caravans. Soros is losing. I wouldn’t want to be Family member the world has just enough of the Soros bad times ahead. Wet works time
Yes. Sadly Soros’ sons are exactly like him and will carry on the destruction after Daddy passes.
I thought it was Fiona Jenner
That’s rich, saying that criticism of the Nazi collaborator Soros is anti-Semitic. That’s like saying that criticism of Mao Tse-Tung is antl-humanitarian.
BTW, how do we check his application for citizenship? When he entered the US (ironically on board the SS United States), he declared that he was stateless. If he was still a Hungarian citizen, he made a false declaration.
lol, Fiona does look like a mayan!
She should be in prison...and where’s Ghislaine...and why is Nidal Malik Hasan still alive? Justice? Nope.
She needs to be condemned, all around.
Soros is not hated by Conservatives for his religion, and Fiona Hill knows it. He is hated for his politics and his global meddling in everyone’s politics.
Anita Hill is precisely what she appears to be. She is a bitter, hate filled fascist zealot.
I’d like to know more about the ties between the Clinton Global Initiatives and the Ukrainian oligarch Victor Puchik the largest foreign donor. He must have wanted Hillary to win real bad and wasn’t very happy when she lost and made his donations worthless.
"This was Ms. Hill's response: "Well, certainly when they involve George Soros, they do. I'd just like to point out that in the early 1900s, the czarist secret police produced something called 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,' which, actually, you can still obtain on the internet. And you can buy it, actually, sometimes, at bookshops in Russia and elsewhere. This is the longest-running anti-Semitic trope that we have in history. And the trope against Mr. Soros, George Soros, was also created for political purposes, and this is the new 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion.'"
Huh? Soros wasn't even part of the question. That's a pretty twisted mind working there. She is a programmed communist robot.
"Anti-Semitism? Racism? I must defend the one, true savior, Master Soros..."
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