Latest Fux Noise talking point, "George Soros is behind the rallies for Gaza"

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Soros is Jewish you fucking idiots.

[ExciteBike66]

1. Just wow

[TheBlackAdder]

9. What, they didn't say that Saul Alinsky is also behind it too? Normally, Soros & Alinsky go hand-in-hand.

Yeah, we all know Alinsky is dead, but that doesn't stop RWers.

[Ocelot II]

2. The Jewish George Soros or some other George Soros?

[BlueKota]

3. They are just obsessed with Soros

If he had as much power as they think he does Trump would have never won the first time.

[Jilly_in_VA]

4. Yeah right

Has it occurred to any one of these negative IQ jokers that George Soros is JEWISH?

[LauraInLA]

5. No, remember, as a teenager he betrayed his Jewish neighbors during the Holocaust by

Helping someone buy their furniture? Or something. It’s an old right-wing trope about Soros.

[LauraInLA]

6. For our "edification", here is the RW Soros-Palestine protest connection:

Quote from comments about the Humboldt protest at https://kymkemp.com/2024/04/27/cal-poly-humboldt-enforcing-hard-campus-closure-now-amid-student-occupation/ (I’ve seen the same tripe on FR, other wingnut sites): ‘Then there is the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR). The Soros-founded organization Open Society Foundations, which is now run by his son Alex Soros, has reportedly contributed $300,000 to the USCPR since 2017, while the Rockefeller Brothers Fund has given it $355,000 in the past five years. “USPCR provides up to $7,800 for its community-based fellows and between $2,880 and $3,660 for its campus-based ‘fellows’ in return for spending eight hours a week organizing “campaigns led by Palestinian organizations.”’

Supposedly.

[LeftInTX]

8. WaPo covers this:

U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights is registered with the IRS as Education for Just Peace in the Middle East (EJP). And EJP has received grants from OSF.

The largest was $300,000, given in 2018. During that fiscal year, EJP took in just over $1 million in revenue. It spent about $1.3 million, meaning it operated at a loss. In fiscal 2019, it had net assets of about $165,000 — meaning that a big chunk of that OSF grant was already spent.

EJP also received a grant from OSF for $150,000 in 2021 and a two-year grant for $250,000 in 2022. The New York Post’s suggestion (echoing one published earlier in the week by the Wall Street Journal) is that this money went to those “paid protesters.” But money is fungible. During those years, the organization also spent $2.4 million, at least $2 million of which wasn’t OSF money.

https://wapo.st/4bc4nA7

[LauraInLA]

10. Thank you for the additional info! I didn't mean I *believed* it -- I just thought

the rationale for blaming protests on Soros was “interesting”

[LeftInTX]

7. He has contributed to some of these groups. However, these groups predate all the protesting.

https://wapo.st/4bc4nA7