I’ve been an admirer of the Israeli commentator David Lange and his site Israellycool. I like his writing even when I may disagree somewhat with his viewpoint on some things, his writing, which is from the perspective of an Israeli who knows how bad the enemies are, is always engaging and informative.

A short while ago Mr Lange waded into the subject of the financier and philanthropist George Soros. Mr Lange said that whilst there is a lot of criticism that goes George Soros’s way that is based on his identity, there is also an awful lot of criticism that is not based on his Jewish background.

I agree with this point of view. As far as I am concerned George Soros is not Jewish in any meaningful way. In fact it’s been decades upon decades since this man could reasonably be called Jewish. He is an apostate Jew to all intents and purposes.

Mr Lange said:

Calling out George Soros for his evil actions is not on its own antisemitic nor on its own an indicator that the critic is antisemitic. I am fully aware that actual Jew-haters do love to point their fingers at him, and it can operate as a “dog whistle”, but this does not change the fact that he does do much bad – which includes funding vehemently anti-Israel groups working against the Jewish state.

I think more people should be criticizing Soros, without of course referencing his Jewishness unless in the context as to how he sells out his own people. I believe Musk’s Magento reference was to just draw the comparison between two Holocaust survivors doing bad, and not two Jews doing bad.

I agree here. It’s quite possible to call out the actions of George Soros and his philanthropic entities as wrong in and of themselves, such as his funding of extreme left, anti-Western and anti-Israel organisations, without even having to mention the fact that he is an ex-Jew. Of course I recognise that to the Jackboot-lickers George Soros is today’s ‘Rothschild’, something that they can blame for all the trouble in the world. However, just because this is the case, it should not stop or hinder people whether they are Jewish or non-Jewish from criticising George Soros for his actions.

On a theological note I believe that the instinct to be philanthropic and to give money away to make the lives of others better, as George Soros does, is a Jewish value, but with Soros that value, that commandment from the Eternal One to undertake good works, has been corrupted. Because that ethic may have been corrupted then its right and proper for Jews to speak up and criticise what Soros spends his money on, especially if that money is not making the lives of others better or making situations worse.