Trump uses antisemitism to frighten opposition
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Trump is using antisemitic tropes and dog whistles in his aim of quelling all opposition, aka scaring people into submission or silence. An obvious – but not the only – target is, once again, George Soros. The accusation is that Jews are funding the extreme left and destroying US society; now where have we heard that before?
The allegations are obviously baseless, not least because the Democrats are hardly a hotbed of the left, and, of course, non Jewish funders are not being targeted in this way. Jewish donors are specifically named as “potential participants in a vast conspiracy to finance violent protesters against the government.”
Of course donations from wealthy Jewish people to the Republicans exceed that donated by Soros but consistency is hardly something to be expected from Trump. Trump’s ability to clamp down on opposition is deeply worrying, if not frightening. What he has unleashed on Black and Brown people – citizens or not – in many cities has chilling echoes of the worst fascist and dictatorial regimes of the past.
This article was originally published by The Guardian on Sun 5 Oct 2025. Read the original here.
Trump sets sights on liberal megadonor George Soros: ‘A chilling message to other donors’
Billionaire ticks all the boxes on the antisemitic score card as Trump attacks Democratic contributors before midterms
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Just because he’s Jewish, doesn’t mean he isn’t evil.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is spot on.
I disagree entirely. Soros is a tragic figure. He poured much of his wealth into human rights and first of all for the Roma people. Much of this became institutionalised and change-from-above by handpicked professional campaigners, because Soros had been so disgusted with ‘actually-existing socialism’. But he was not a right- wing thinker and within ten years had openly realised that the free market wasn’t free at all but was a rigged system creating more and more inequality. His efforts for human rights failed but he tried — and that is why Orban and Trump are out to get him.
The suggestion that any JVL member endorse M Taylor Greene is disturbing.