George Soros became a lightning rod ahead of last November’s presidential election, especially after the Donald Trump campaign ran a commercial linking him to “the global power structure” – a line that many viewed as an anti-Semitic dog whistle. But as Nick Cohen points out in a recent op-ed for the Guardian, Soros’s appeal as…
Tens of thousands of Hungarians protested in central Budapest on Sunday against new legislation that could force the Central European University (CEU), a school founded by U.S. financier George Soros, to move out of the country. A bill passed in Parliament this week by the ruling right-wing Fidesz party of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a…
Florida gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Gillum is drawing big-bucks support from major Democratic donors, including Jewish billionaire George Soros and his son, Alex Soros. Gillum is now the Democratic mayor of Tallahassee. He will face a crowded field of candidates vying for Florida’s governorship in 2018. The incumbent governor, Republican Rick Scott, is barred by term…
Budapest’s Central European University (CEU) is the latest casualty in Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s war on liberalism and free expression. Earlier today the Hungarian Parliament approved an amendment to a higher education law that would, per the New York Times, “restrict the independence of universities that offer diplomas from countries where they do not…
Hungary approved a new law in a fast-track procedure on Tuesday that could force a university founded by financier George Soros out of the country despite a protest against the plan in Budapest and condemnation abroad. Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a staunch critic of liberal civil organizations funded by Soros, said on Friday the Central…
(JTA) — Radio host and Donald Trump supporter Alex Jones ranted about “the Jewish mafia,” which he said was run by Jewish billionaire George Soros. Jones was responding to a caller to his radio show who claimed that “the Jewish mafia” was supporting efforts by Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., to “derail the Trump presidency.”…
George Soros has long been a target of the Kremlin, which has seen a conspiracy and a threat to its power in the billionaire’s funding of democratic elements in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. That line now seems to have been adopted by a few Republican congressmen, who sent a letter this week to Secretary…
George Soros has been a fierce critic of President Donald Trump, denouncing him at a recent conference in Switzerland as a “would-be dictator.” But that doesn’t mean he’s above doing business with the president’s in-laws — the billionaire investor is said to have given $250 million in credit to Jared Kushner and Joshua Kushner’s real estate…
