The conservative-pushed attacks on American billionaire George Soros, a prominent backer of worldwide pro-democracy efforts, were commonplace and virulent long before a rabid Donald Trump supporter acted to silence Soros by mailing a pipe bomb to his suburban New York home. So too is the notion that Soros, a Jewish American and Holocaust survivor, is a kingpin of a worldwide Jewish "plot" to bring non-white immigrants to America to overwhelm American whiteness, a conspiracy theory referenced by the man who murdered 11 Jewish Americans in their synagogue on Saturday morning.
But it may surprise you to learn that some of those attacks on Soros in fact have come in part from the American government itself, via a government-funded Radio Televisión Martí program produced last May that relied on anti-Semitic conspiracy theories peddled by far-right conservative group Judicial Watch to warn Cubans of the threat posed by "the multimillionaire Jew."
“It describes him as a millionaire investor and stock market speculator who exploits capitalism and Wall Street to finance anti-system movements that fill his pockets.”
The video also refers to Soros as “the multimillionaire Jew of Hungarian origin whose fortune is estimated at $8 billion” and “a non-believing Jew of flexible morals,” according to Mother Jones.
The program was pulled only after Mother Jones reported on its existence after last week's pipe bombings.
The source of these claims, Judicial Watch, has aggressively targeted Soros and promoted the anti-Semitic theory that he and other Jewish forces are behind Central American refugee groups seeking asylum in America. Yesterday the Fox Business Network issued a condemnation of Judicial Watch figure Chris Farrell after Farrell suggested to host Lou Dobbs that the current "caravan" was being orchestrated by the "Soros-occupied State Department"—a unveiled reference to white supremacist conspiracy theories asserting secret Jewish "occupation" of government agencies. Fox has reportedly barred Farrell from future network appearances; Judicial Watch, however, continues to promote those conspiracy claims.