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'Contemptible': outrage as Rudy Giuliani attacks George Soros as 'hardly a Jew' [View all]
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/24/rudy-giuliani-george-soros-antisemitic-jewish'Contemptible': outrage as Rudy Giuliani attacks George Soros as 'hardly a Jew'
Edward Helmore in New York
Tue 24 Dec 2019 19.14 GMT
Jewish groups intensified criticism on Tuesday of Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor turned president’s lawyer and freelancing Ukrainian envoy, after he attacked Jewish financier, philanthropist and Holocaust survivor George Soros for being “hardly a Jew” and failing to attend synagogue.
Giuliani also asserted he was “more of a Jew than Soros” and repeated a claim that the former US ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, who testified in Donald Trump’s impeachment inquiry, was controlled by the financier.
The Anti-Defamation League CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, furiously rebuked Giuliani, who is of Italian descent and was raised Roman Catholic, describing his comments as “baffling and offensive” and a “dog whistle to hardcore antisemites and white supremacists who believe this garbage”.
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