George Soros conspiracy theories

[1][2] Veronika Bondarenko, writing for Business Insider said: "For two decades, some have seen Soros as a kind of puppet master secretly controlling the global economy and politics.

[4] Professor Armin Langer has noted that Soros is "the perfect code word" for conspiracy theories that unite antisemitism and Islamophobia.

According to anthropologist Ivan Kalmar, "[m]any of his most outspoken enemies inside and outside Hungary saw him as leading an international cabal that included other Jews such as the Rothschilds, as well as Freemasons and Illuminati.

"[6][7] Soros has become a magnet for such theories, with opponents claiming he is behind such diverse events as the 2017 Women's March, the fact-checking website Snopes, the gun-control activism engaged in by the survivors of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting,[8][9][10] the October 2018 Central American immigrant caravans, and protests against the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination.

"[9] Anthropologist Ivan Kalmar writes that it is "not clear where the Soros Myth began... A likely candidate for the dubious honour of originating it is the Executive Intelligence Review (EIR), founded by the far-right American commentator Lyndon LaRouche.

An article in the 1 November 1996 edition accuses the financier of manipulating the world’s finances in partnership with the Rothschilds, who 'launched Soros's career'", citing a piece by writer F. William Engdahl.

)[18]The 3 April 2016 release date of the Panama Papers, also called Offshoregate (Russian: "Офшоргейта") was just before Vladimir Putin's largest annual press conference, the All-Russian Popular Front (ONF) "Truth and Justice" in St. Petersburg (Russian: Медиа-форум Общероссийского народного фронта (ОНФ) «Правда и справедливость» в Санкт-Петербурге) which was held 4–7 April 2016.

[20][21] After being ousted from office in the wake of the aforementioned Panama Papers scandal, Icelandic Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson accused Soros of having bankrolled a conspiracy to remove him from power.

[29] Following a December 20, 1998, 60 Minutes interview,[30][31] in which Soros related his experiences of when, at the age of 13, the Nazis occupied his native Hungary,[32][33] right-wing figures such as Alex Jones, Dinesh D'Souza, Glenn Beck, Roseanne Barr,[34] James Woods, Ann Coulter,[33] Louie Gohmert,[31] Marjorie Taylor Greene,[35] and Donald Trump Jr.,[36] promulgated the false conspiracy theory,[37][38] which has been described as antisemitic, that Soros was a Nazi collaborator who turned in other Jews and stole their property during the occupation.

[52][53] In November 2018, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan denounced Soros while speaking about the political purges in Turkey, saying: "The person who financed terrorists during the Gezi incidents is already in prison.

"[54] In November 2019, attorney Joseph diGenova, who is known for promoting conspiracy theories about the Department of Justice and the FBI,[63] asserted on Fox News without evidence that Soros "controls a very large part of the career foreign service of the United States State Department" and "also controls the activities of FBI agents overseas who work for NGOs – work with NGOs.

[75] The only actual connection is that Soros donated to progressive criminal justice reform group Color of Change, which contributed to Bragg's campaign.

[76][77] Also in 2023, Tesla, Inc./SpaceX CEO and owner of social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) Elon Musk compared George Soros to Jewish Marvel Comics supervillain Magneto and accused him of wanting "to erode the very fabric of civilization" because he "hates humanity".