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George Soros was born in Budapest in 1930 as Gyorgy Schwartz to a secular upper-middle class family who changed their name to the less Jewish-sounding Soros in response to rising Hungarian anti-Semitism. When Nazi Germany occupied Hungary in 1944, the family procured fake documents indicating that they were Christians, saving themselves from possible murder in the Holocaust. Soros' father is also credited with saving the lives of a number of other Hungarian Jews.His foundations have supported peace initiatives in the Middle East, and he is no great fan of Israel. Once he told New Yorker magazine: "I don't deny Jews the right to a national existence, but I don't want to be part of it." The Israeli foreign ministry has attacked Soros for "continuously undermining Israel's democratically elected governments" by funding groups that "defame the Jewish state and seek to deny it the right to defend itself."Soros contributes to the New Israel Fund, a left-leaning clearinghouse for Israeli civil rights groups, which in turn funds organizations that oppose the deportation of African refugees from Israel. Meretz MK Tamar Zandberg said that Hungary has been “carrying out an antisemitic campaign against Soros” for the past year, a campaign which she said the Foreign Ministry has warned against, and which Hungarian Jews fear. “Netanyahu’s decision to light a fire around that antisemitic campaign and to join it is a direct continuation of the dangerous ties that exist between the Likud and the extreme right-wing parties in Europe,” she said.https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Netanyahu-blames-Soros-for-Israel-anti-deportation-campaign-540640Even critics of Soros like NGO Monitor acknowledge that the hostility toward him has  been "disturbing" and included "anti-Semitic components", playing on anti-Semitic stereotypes."From Lithuania to Croatia, from Hungary to the Ukraine, some of Israel’s best new friends are actively engaged in rewriting history, diminishing the Jewish Holocaust and absolving their people of rendering assistance to the murderous Nazi machine…Netanyahu is placing himself and his party shoulder to shoulder with anti-Semitic scum. "https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-zeroing-in-on-soros-netanyahu-is-side-by-side-with-anti-semitic-scum-1.5792539 The Israeli foreign ministry endorsed a Hungarian ad campaign singling out Soros, despite widespread criticism (including by the Israeli ambassador to Hungary) of the campaign’s anti-Semitism. Netanyahu’s own son Yair posted a conspiratorial, anti-Semitic image to Facebook featuring Soros dangling the world before a reptilian predator. The spectacle of the Israeli government endorsing anti-Semitic tropes is a bizarre new feature of our world. Soros embodies a Diasporic Jewish archetype that right-wing Zionism has defined itself against. He is a reminder that another model of Jewish identity and even Jewish power exists divorced from nationalism, and as such, he is a big threat to the Zionist right.Soros learned from the Holocaust not that Jews needs a nation-state, but that the world needs less nationalism. Mairav Zonszein wrote back in July, “Soros’s humanitarianism and universalism represent an expression of post-Holocaust Jewish identity that is anathema to the hard-line nationalism of Mr. Netanyahu’s governing coalition.” The hatred of African refugees — or as they are called in Israel today, “infiltrators” — flows directly from this angry, exclusivist nationalism. Minister of Culture Miri Regev, deems Israeli culture insufficiently nationalist,  said, “The Sudanese are a cancer in our body.” Netanyahu adheres to the classic Zionist mission that sought to end anti-Semitism and diaspora existence by gathering all Jews in the historic land of Israel. As in this case with Hungary, Mr. Netanyahu is increasingly aligning Israel with illiberal, autocratic states. The ultimate cynicism of such alliances is visible in Netanyahu’s willingness to tolerate the anti-Semitism of the global right-wing nationalist camp if it will bolster the Greater Israel…For Netanyahu, ideally there would be no daylight between Jewish identity and Israeli identity. Soros represents an obstacle to this project because he is such a high-profile figure among the communities of the Jewish diaspora that do not necessarily have a strong identification with Israel — or worse, that are critical of it movement. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/opinion/george-soros-israel-hungary.htmlhttps://forward.com/opinion/394011/netanyahus-hatred-of-soros-is-a-rejection-of-diaspora-jews/