Soros and other elites are funding the campus agitators stoking anti-Israel, antisemitic protests

No one familiar with the state of modern academia can be much surprised by the wave of anti-Israel tent-city occupations sweeping US campuses — but that doesn’t make them 100% “organic.”

And The Post’s discovery that lefty philanthropists are funding student “protest leaders” may be just the tip of an iceberg.

Encampments at Harvard, Yale, UC-Berkeley, Ohio State and Emory in Georgia were organized by branches of Students for Justice in Palestine, which gets cash (some direct, some indirect) from the Soros family “charities” as well as the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and retired Wall Street banker Felice Gelman.

Gelman and the Soroses also give to Jewish Voice for Peace and Within Our Lifetime, two more groups intimately involved in the protests.

At least three organizers — Malak Afaneh (Berkeley), Craig Birckhead-Morton (Yale) and Nidaa Lafi (University of Texas-Dallas) — are paid fellows of another lefty-philanthropy favorite, the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights.

USCPR community and college fellows earn stipends of $2,880 to $7,800 for work organizing campaigns to demand cutting ties to Israel.

Though most of the campus occupiers are themselves plenty privileged, the “charitable giving” helps explain why the demonstrators get to protest in style: sleeping in Amazon-ordered tents, enjoying delivery pizza, coffee from Dunkin’, free sandwiches from Pret a Manger, organic tortilla chips and $10 rotisserie chickens.

Cash and leadership tips may come from other sources, too: At least one expert suspects foreign assistance, funding and influence based on the simultaneous protests hitting at Passover, the appearance of common tents at the encampments and the use of talking points similar to those of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders.

And of course any “progressive” protest, especially in a college town or major city, is likely to attract

Thanks for your reply 41, and the YouTube link to the December 20, 1998 CBS 60 Minutes show segment, an interview of George Soros:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4234211/posts?page=41#41
https://youtu.be/86d6EiYg9ZE?si=79jpmUOmHIMEBiAE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86d6EiYg9ZE
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=86d6EiYg9ZE

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George Soros does not admit to “being part of the Arrow Cross.” The “Arrow Cross” is not mentioned.

Yet, in the transcript of the video, George Soros was asked if he

- 08:28 “helped with the confiscation of property from the Jews”

To which, George Soros replied, “That is right. Yes.”

But later, he denies that, saying

- 09:37 “I was only a spectator.”

George Soros is at times a dichotomy, who also, at other times, is a paradox who contradicts himself.

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EXCERPTS FROM THE INTERVIEW . . .

02:34 / 13:27

George Soros: I am basically there, to make money. I cannot, and do not, look at the social consequences of what I do.

06:30 / 13:27

George Soros: “I am one person, who at one time, engages in amoral activities, and at another time, tries to be moral.”

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ENTIRE REMAINDER OF THE INTERVIEW . . .

06:57 / 13:27

60 Minutes narrative:

George Soros parents were wealthy, well-educated, and Jewish.

When the NAZI’s occupied Budapest in 1944, George Soros’s father was a successful lawyer. They lived on an island in the Danube River, and he liked to commute to work on a rowboat.

Knowing there were problems ahead for the Jews, he decided to split his family up. He bought them forged papers, and he bribed a government official to take 14-year old George Soros in, and swear that George was the official’s Christian godson.

But survival carried a heavy price tag. While hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were being shipped off to the death camps, George Soros accompanied his phony godfather on appointed rounds, confiscating property from the Jews.

07:36 / 13:27

These are pictures from 1944, of what happened to George Soros’s friends and neighbors.

[Images of Jews being rounded up.]

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07:41 / 13:27

60 Minutes: You are a Hungarian Jew, who escaped the Holocaust by posing as a Christian.

George Soros: Right.

60 Minutes: And you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps.

George Soros: Right. I was 14-years old, and I would say, that is where my character was made. That one should think ahead. One should understand and anticipate events. Uh . . . and when one is threatened . . . it was a tremendous threat of evil . . . a very personal experience of evil.

60 Minutes: From what I understand, is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson.

08:28 / 13:27

George Soros: Yes. Yes.

60 Minutes: Went out in fact and helped with the confiscation of property from the Jews.

George Soros: That is right. Yes.

60 Minutes: That sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?

George Soros: No. Not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child, you don’t, you don’t see the connection, uh . . . but it was, it created no problem at all.

60 Minutes: No feeling of guilt.

George Soros: No.

60 Minutes: For example, that uh . . . I am Jewish, uh, and here I am, watching these people go. I could just as easily be there; I should be there. None of that.

George Soros: Well, of course, I could, I could be on the other side, I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. Uh . . . Uhm . . . but, there was no sense that I shouldn’t be there, because that was . . . uh . . . uh . . .

09:37 / 13:27

George Soros: Well actually, funny way, it’s just like in markets, that, if I weren’t there, of course I wasn’t doing it, but somebody else would, would, would be taking it away anyhow. It was the, whether I was there or not. I was only a spectator. The property was being taken away. So, I had no role in taking it away, that property. So I had no sense of guilt.

60 Minutes: Are you religious?

George Soros: No.

60 Minutes: Do you believe in God?

George Soros: No.

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10:09 / 13:27

60 Minutes narrative

Soros told us, that he believes, God was created by men, not the other way around, which may be why he thinks he cans smooth out the world’s imperfections.

When we went with him to Ukraine, he was treated like a visiting head of state, and he was received by the president. Then he was received by the prime minister, and finally by the central bank. They even allowed him to look at the books and asked him for advice.

Lots of people want George Soros’s advice. Most recently, South African President Nelson Mandela.

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10:41 / 13:27

George Soros: Actually, President Mandella asked me, ‘How could South Africa protect itself against speculators like you?’

George Soros: And I told him, I wrote him a memo, trying to give him the best advice I could: How to, uh uh, reduce the, the uh exposure of South Africa to, to speculative attack.

60 Minutes: That’s the old, stop me before, before I kill again approach. Right? You’re telling, ‘This is what you can do to stop me.’

George Soros: Whether I, or somebody else, does whatever is happening in the markets, really doesn’t make any difference to the outcome. I don’t feel guilty. Because I am engaged in an amoral activity which is not meant to have anything to do with guilt.

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11:32 / 13:27

60 Minutes narrative

Part of the reason he is so rich, is that the Soros hedge funds operate offshore in the Netherlands Antilles, to avoid scrutiny by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

So, even while Soros tells Congress and the Treasury, that hedge funds must be regulated, to stop the global crisis, he is avoiding the rules.

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11:50 / 13:27

60 Minutes: Why is it, that uh, that Americans can’t invest in the Quantum Fund? It is an offshore fund; why is that?

George Soros: Because the fund is not registered at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Uh, so, so uh . . . we are not . . .

60 Minutes: Licensed to do business in the United States.

George Soros: That’s right.

60 Minutes: Because . . .

George Soros: [Smiling] Because, because we are not registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. [Not smiling] Because we find it more convenient to operate without it.

60 Minutes: So in some ways, it is to escape regulations.

George Soros: Yeah. That’s right.

60 Minutes: But you have been sitting here, talking about the need for regulation.

George Soros: Yes; [smiling] and whenever regulations are imposed, we will obey, we will . . . we already conform to everything.

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12:44 / 13:27

60 Minutes narrative

If the beneficiaries of Soros’s billions, do not understand the intracies of SEC rules and offshore hedge funds, they do understand what he has done for them.

The president of Haiti is reading his new book, The Crisis of Capitalism, and so is President Clinton.

Will all the attention spoil George Soros?

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13:03 / 13:27

James Grant [*Interest Rate Observer*]: George Soros, in a way, is Donald Trump without the humility.

13:09 / 13:27

60 Minutes: One of your money managers told us, that uh, uh, George really does think he is a god.

George Soros: If you think that you are God, and you go into financial markets, you are bound to come out broke. So, the fact that I am not broke, shows that I don’t believe that I am God.

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ABOUT THE INTERVIEW

https://peterosnos.substack.com/p/george-soros-a-teenage-moment-and

George Soros, a Teenage Moment and 60 Minutes
By Peter L.W. Osnos, 10/26/2018

In an interview two years ago, I was asked to tell the story of that television piece and its aftermath. Here is what I said:

It was December 1998, just before Christmas at a cocktail party. I overheard Don Hewitt, executive producer of 60 Minutes telling several people with notable brio that in an interview to be aired that Sunday evening there was an exchange that could be explosive about George’s activities in World War II. PublicAffairs was working with George on his book “The Crisis of Global Capitalism” at that time. So the next morning I sent him a fax which said, in essence, “I gather there is a question and answer on 60 Minutes, which, depending on how it is framed, you are likely to hear about again.” George was flying to Sun Valley that day for the holiday. But when he arrived he sent me a very strong message saying that he knew what the issue must be and it was deeply unfair and hurtful in the way it was presented. The implication, it developed, was that George was somehow a willing witness to Nazi terror in Hungary, which was totally false.

Because Don’s wife Marilyn and I had been in graduate school together and were friends, I had his home number and even though it was Saturday morning, I called him. I related George’s appalled response and asked if there was anything that could be done given the seriousness of the assertion. Don said that the show was now finished and ready to air and that was more or less the conversation. Watching the show the next night I heard George say that when he was 14 his father had embedded him for protection from the Germans with a Hungarian official and that on a single occasion George was present when a Jewish family was answering a demand for a registry of their property. George was not involved and the only mention of the incident was in his father’s memoirs as a strand in the story of survival in war-time Budapest.

As soon as the show was over, Don called me and asked what I thought. I replied it wasn’t as bad as I expected it to be. Don said he had gone to the office and reviewed the raw footage and added 18 seconds to make clear what had happened as a distinctly minor moment. It was remarkable that Don had made the change. But even so, the trope was used by right-wing conspiracy mavens, particularly the followers of Lyndon LaRouche, an especially nasty extremist. All these years later, this gross falsehood about George continues to be repeated. In a lifetime of extraordinary contributions to social justice and human rights, this lie about George Soros must be refuted in the strongest possible terms.

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