WASHINGTON (JTA) — Fiona Hill, a former White House senior staffer providing key testimony in congressional hearings to impeach President Donald Trump, likened a right-wing narrative casting liberal Jewish billionaire George Soros as all-controlling to a notorious anti-Semitic forgery.
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The narrative that Soros is behind an array of evildoings “is the new Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” Hill said Thursday in hearings. “It’s an absolute outrage.”
Soros has become a bugbear for some right-wingers, who blame his liberal philanthropy for a number of ills, citing little evidence. Trump himself last year blamed Soros for an “invasion” of Central American migrants that never materialized.
Hill in closed testimony last month had described the attacks as “anti-Semitic” and needing repudiation by Republicans. Her evident frustration and horror at the specious Soros-related attacks on her and colleagues, including the former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, was one of many dramatic moments in the hearings, which wrapped up Thursday.
Hill explained the background to the “Protocols,” a czarist forgery from the late 19th century casting Jews as all-controlling and evil that has been cited multiple times by anti-Semites.
“This is the longest-running anti-Semitic trope that we have in history,” she said.
Hill, who until August was Trump’s senior director for European and Russian affairs, testified in an impeachment query aimed at ascertaining whether Trump solicited a bribe from Ukraine when he asked that government to investigate his political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, while he withheld defense assistance from the country for a period.
She doesn’t know history.
How about hooked nose? Or money grubbing? That goes back to Shakespeare. And if you think he invented antisemitism, you are delusional.
Really?!?
Attacks against this disgusting scoundrel that led Hungarian , NAZI sympathizing iron cross agents up and down Budapest streets Pointing out Jewish homes is anti Semitic?
He should tuck his tail between his legs and slink out of town in shame. And for all of you that will tell me it’s never been proven, I’ve got one question for you. If he was innocent, Why has he never fought this legally? He has the means and the influence to file a defamation suit and debunk these claims once and for all. Yet, every time it’s been raised , He’s offered nothing other than a tepid denial, in the form of an excuse that he was an impressionable teenager. If this was ever brought to trial the light of day would shine on him and he’d be exposed for the scoundrel he is
how about Jews in Lodz and Yiidden who hated the yekkes and every second word was Yekke Pei zaddik and rejoiced when they were taken to chelmno
In Buchenwald I was in block 66 , gustav schiller a Yidd a communist run the block and he let us make a minyan
Longest running atttack……………………..Bood Libel
Soros is an atheist. Judaism is a religion, not a race. He actually is proud that he was raised as an “anti-Semite” according to his own words.