He has attempted to demonize and marginalize Israel within the international community. That is not liberal or conservative but Anti-Jewish. This thread, however, is not the appropriate place to have this discussion.
ISTM that the conflation of Jews as a group with Israel as a nation-state is relevant to this thread. If people are trying to call Soros antisemitic or “Anti-Jewish” for opposing particular Israeli policies, that’s pertinent to the OP’s topic.
You’ll notice that I put him in the same category as the Kochs and Adelson, that of “people who (by virtue of being really rich) can influence policy more effectively than I”. Now, you’re right that I mostly disagree with the Koch’s and Adelson’s goals, and mostly agree with Soros’ and Buffett’s. But I view what all of them (including the Kochs) are doing as legitimate, under the rules as they currently stand. And I also think that those rules should be changed, to decrease the outsized influence of billionaires (including Soros).
Legitimate seems an odd choice of a word. If you really want to attack this problem with regulation the first step is to denormalize it with language. Something being legal does not make it legitimate.
Can you be more specific about the policies you would support. We obviously all support lobbying being more regulated but what would regulation of NGOs(or even think tanks) look like.
This is a nitpick, but do you even dictionary? That’s what the word actually means.
Lots of Jewish people agree with him, at least to some extent. I don’t see how you can say that’s “Anti-Jewish.”
I won’t address your cringy reddit language. Legitimate has multiple uses. Its second def on dictionary.com is “in accordance with established rules, principles, or standards.” This contributes to its connotation and using it the way OP did clearly normalizes the practice he was claiming to oppose.
Obviously many Jews are Anti-Jewish. The author of this lovely article being one. American Pravda: The ADL in American Society, by Ron Unz - The Unz Review
Soros
Is not Anti-Jewish it is anti-ethostate. It is a false equivalence to claim that they are related.
Of course Bush and Obama who also committed similar Human rights violations want to paint it that way. But it is absurd to conflate these two even if the anti-Semites do try to hijack the topic.
There is a good reason far-right extremists like Trump and Richard Spencer to look to Israel as a White ethnostate model.
Snort.
They also support Glenn Beck, and the pro-Trumpist and wing-nutty American Spectator. (Examples: “According to Common Core, soft core porn is preferable to Jane Austin,” and this month’s comparison of Trump to Winston Churchill, practically separated at birth!). The Daily Caller Foundation, propping another Trumpist lickspittle publication, receives generous funding - over 80% of their budget in a recent year. Charles Koch Is Funding Rightwing, Pro-Trump Media, New Disclosure Reveals
If you fund such loons, you are a loon.