Netanyahu advisers hatched anti-Semitic conspiracy against George Soros

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/netanyahu-advisers-hatched-anti-semitic-conspiracy-against-george-soros
Israeli leaders helped birth today’s most notorious anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.
That’s the conclusion from recent reports about the origins of a right-wing plot against liberal Jewish billionaire George Soros.
The demonization of Soros – often in overtly anti-Semitic terms – has become a leading theme of the international right in recent years.
And two of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s key advisers were responsible for it.
In a Swiss magazine interview in January, electoral strategist George Birnbaum revealed that he and his mentor Arthur Finkelstein originated the plot against Soros.
Far-right websites like Breitbart typically describe Soros as a “globalist” – a euphemism echoing Henry Ford’s propaganda about “the international Jew” and later Nazi propaganda about a global Jewish conspiracy against the German “master race.”
Birnbaum and Finkelstein were first introduced to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán by Netanyahu.
According to the interview, the plot’s origins go back to 2008, when Orbán decided to seek reelection after some years in opposition.

The Israeli prime minister played a key part in launching Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s anti-Semitic campaign against George Soros. (PM of Israel)