(Jewish Group) Can editors recognize anti-Semitism? An article about Soros suggests no [View all]

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It was a shock to read in The Chicago Tribune that George Soros is the secret force causing Chicago’s woes.

Yes, that’s The Chicago Tribune, one of America’s major papers, not Hungarian propaganda. And worse, the column claimed that Soros, the Hungarian-born philanthropist, was the reason for the problems of — wait for it — all of urban America.

“These Democratic cities are also where left-wing billionaire George Soros has spent millions of dollars to help elect liberal social justice warriors as prosecutors. He remakes the justice system in urban America, flying under the radar,” longtime Tribune columnist John Kass wrote yesterday, in a column that ran with a photo of Soros.

The idea of the “hidden hand” is one of the oldest anti-Semitic tropes. Or, as Kass put it, “flying under the radar.” It’s an idea found in “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” a conspiracy theory that lays out the canard that Jews are secretly controlling the entire world, operating as conspirators against their homes.

The occasion for Kass’s column was the situation in Chicago, a city on edge because of rising violence in a city long plagued by it, coupled with President Trump’s plans to send Federal agents in. Mayor Lori Lightfoot called the proposal “unconstitutional.” “We are not going to have people who don’t know our streets, don’t know our neighborhoods, and then who are engaging in clearly unconstitutional conduct operating at will in our city,” Lightfoot said.

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