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Behind the Aegis

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Sat Feb 10, 2018, 04:37 AM Feb 2018

(Jewish Group) It's Not anti-Semitism if You Just Hate the Bad Jews

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

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Yes, I know it's hopelessly out of step with today's Britain and probably already was all those years ago when I first read it, but it's harmless nostalgia, interspersed with the occasional specimen of first-class journalism. Or so I thought until Thursday morning, when the Daily Telegraph ran an anti-Semitic main headline.

To understand what was anti-Semitic about it, first bear in mind that it had nothing to do with the Jews as a collective or with Israel. It dealt with an individual Jew, the financier George Soros, and didn't identify him as such.

But two words in the headline - "Secret Plot" - said it all. Mr Soros is, of course, the Hungarian-born 87 year-old American billionaire whose philanthropic foundation has funded various political causes around the world. The Telegraph was taking him to task for donating 400,000 euros to a campaign trying to prevent Britain from leaving the European Union.

The problem with the piece wasn't anything actually written in it. It was a collection of facts, most of them already well known, about Soros and his support for the anti-Brexit cause.


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(Jewish Group) It's Not anti-Semitism if You Just Hate the Bad Jews (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Feb 2018 OP
I understand Soros is trying to make up for his actions MosheFeingold Feb 2018 #1

MosheFeingold

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1. I understand Soros is trying to make up for his actions
Mon Feb 12, 2018, 12:23 AM
Feb 2018

Bit he collaborated with Nazis to murder and rob other members of our small and scattered tribe. Indeed, he bragged about it in his autobiography, which made me cringe.

I respect many of his efforts now.

But I'd totally beat the shit out of him, too

I lost too many to forgive.

I don't care about his problems.

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