Fact Check: Did George Soros Help Nazis Confiscate Jewish Property?

[Behind the Aegis]

Elon Musk faced criticism this week for a comparison he made about George Soros, saying he reminded him of an X-Men comic supervillain Magneto, a character written as a Jewish Holocaust survivor.

Soros, a Holocaust survivor, was attacked online by the Twitter owner, who said separately that the Hungarian billionaire "hates humanity."

One tweet, left in response to Elon Musk's comparison, claimed that Soros had helped confiscate Jewish property during World War II.

The Claim

A tweet by conservative commentator Melissa Tate, posted on May 16, 2023, viewed 64,000 times, claimed that George Soros had admitted to "helping the Nazis confiscate Jews property."

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[elleng]

1. 'Melissa Tate's claim is without merit.

Soros' early life was characterized by attempts to survive Nazi occupation in Hungary and avoid the glare of antisemitism even before the start of the war.

An online biography by the Open Society Foundations (which Soros founded) says that Soros, who was born in Hungary in 1930, escaped Nazi persecution of the Jews along with his family by securing false identity papers and concealing their backgrounds.

According to the 2002 biography Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire by Michael T. Kaufman (written with Soros' cooperation), his father, Tivadar, changed Soros' surname from Schwartz in 1936 to avoid the glare of growing antisemitism.'>

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/fact-check-did-george-soros-help-nazis-confiscate-jewish-property/ar-AA1bmvvw?

[hlthe2b]

5. Exactly. That conclusion needs to be added to the OP, IMO--some won't read the article.

[moose65]

2. These people are obsessed with Soros

He was 14 years old when this supposedly happened. How much “confiscating” could a 14-year-old kid have done? Jeez.

[live love laugh]

3. I didn't understand the obsession until I recently heard is the fixation is anti-Semitic

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And that Soros is a dog whistle for Jewish.


Musk compares Soros to Jewish, super villain Magneto

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2023/05/16/george-soros-elon-musk-adl/

From Quora: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-criticizing-George-Soros-considered-anti-Semitic:

“The thing is that a lot of the allegations made against Soros slide into classic antisemitic tropes about Jews secretly managing everything from the shadows.

Soros is a very wealthy man and, like most very wealthy men and women, he has realized that his wealth gives him power to fund causes he supports and create institutions to influence the world. Bill Gates does this, Warren Buffett does it, the Koch brothers do it big time but it seems there is an undue focus on Soros by right wingers who make much more of his activitist philanthropy than they do when talking about billionaire activists they actually like and approve of.

Soros is actually very upfront and transparent about his activism. He is not hiding anything that I can see. His Open Society Foundation is one of many publicly listed NGOs, yet right wing critics try to portray him as some kind of “sinister puppet master”.

Even stressing Soros’ Jewishness is rather dishonest as, although Soros is a Jew, he is not at all involved in Jewish life or active in the Jewish community. In fact, his relationship with much of the Jewish community is very poor indeed. Nonetheless, right wingers keep calling him “the Jew Soros” or referring to him as “Jewish financier and globalist, George Soros”. I even see him referred to as “a prominent Zionist” which is ridiculous as Soros supports the Palestinians and has a terrible relationship with Israel.

[marble falls]

4. What Elon Musk gets away with.

[Solly Mack]

6. K&R