These groups worked to support Democrats in the 2004 election. He has suggested that the contemporary domination of world politics and world trade by the United States is a reflexive phenomenon, insofar as the success of military and financial coercion feeds back to encourage increasingly intense applications of the same policies to the point where they will eventually become unsustainable. Liberal billionaire George Soros poured $3million in 2020 into the Community Resource Hub for Safety and Accountability, which supports activists pushing to defund the police in cities across the US. [N]obody who has read a business magazine in the last few years can be unaware that these days there really are investors who not only move money in anticipation of a currency crisis, but actually do their best to trigger that crisis for fun and profit. Who is George Soros? The United States sets the agenda for the world. [101], In the second quarter of 2020, Soros gave at least $500,000 to presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, becoming one of the campaign's largest donors. "[54], In 1954, Soros began his financial career at the merchant bank Singer & Friedlander of London. [84] In October 2011, the court rejected his appeal in a 43 decision, saying that Soros had been aware of the risk of breaking insider trading laws. He has stated that whereas the greatest threats to the "open society" in the past were from communism and fascism (as discussed in The Open Society and Its Enemies by his mentor Karl Popper), the largest current threat is from market fundamentalism. Born in Budapest to a non-observant Jewish family, Soros survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary and moved to the United Kingdom in 1947. Regarding the political gridlock in America, he said, "Today, China has not only a more vigorous economy but actually a better functioning government than the United States. [214], Time magazine in 2007 cited two specific projects$100million toward Internet infrastructure for regional Russian universities, and $50million for the Millennium Promise to eradicate extreme poverty in Africanoting that Soros had given $742million to projects in the U.S., and given away a total of more than $7billion.[215]. He planned to stay for five years, enough time to save $500,000, after which he intended to return to England to study philosophy. Lenders looked at their balance sheets which not only showed that they had made more loans, but that the collaterals backing the loans the value of the houses had gone up (because more money was chasing the same amount of housing, relatively). Misinformation About George Floyd Protests Surges on Social Media. but not appropriate for use by children and students. [82], In an interview concerning the late-2000s recession, Soros referred to it as the most serious crisis since the 1930s. Billionaire describes use of AI to control citizens as 'mortal threat' to open society. During this period, Soros developed the theory of reflexivity to extend the ideas of his tutor at the London School of Economics, Karl Popper. From 1963 to 1973, Soros's experience as a vice president at Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder resulted in little enthusiasm for the job; business was slack following the introduction of the Interest Equalization Tax, which undermined the viability of Soros's European trading. [124][125][126], The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa is a Soros-affiliated organization. "[200], In January 2019, Soros used his annual speech at the World Economic Forum, in Davos, to label Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of China, as the "most dangerous opponent of open societies", saying: "China is not the only authoritarian regime in the world but it is the wealthiest, strongest and technologically most advanced". When [I] make the decision, the backache goes away. [167], In a subsequent article for The New York Review of Books, Soros emphasized that, I do not subscribe to the myths propagated by enemies of Israel and I am not blaming Jews for anti-Semitism. "Financial markets always move forward, and the same is true of history," Soros says in the film. In the same context, the conservative group Judicial Watch has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of State and USAID compelling them to release records regarding $5 million transferred from USAID to Soros's Open Society branch in Macedonia. He was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Nyrbakta, Hungary, near the border with Ukraine. [129], Soros has funded worldwide efforts to promote drug policy reform. Soros's Open Society Foundations also donated a total of 303,000 to two pro-EU organizations, the European Movement UK and Scientists for EU, and a center-right think-tank, Bright Blue. George Soros se narodil jako Gyrgy Schwartz v rodin budapeskho prvnka a esperantisty Tivadara Sorose (tehdy jet pod jmnem Theodor Schwarz) a jeho eny Erzsbet (pozdji Elizabeth).. Z rodnho Maarska odeel po vlce v roce 1946.Od roku 1947 il v Anglii, kde studoval ekonomii a filozofii na London School of Economics, kde ho vznamn ovlivnil Karl R . In March 2017, six US senators sent a letter to then secretary of state Rex Tillerson[120] asking that he look into several grants the State Department and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have given to groups funded by "left-wing" Soros. [56], In 1970, Soros founded Soros Fund Management and became its chairman. His views are more or less the common views in Meretz and in the Labor Party." [147] In August 2019, Sayoc was sentenced to 20 years in prison for mailing 16 pipe bombs to 13 victims. In 1973, due to perceived conflicts of interest limiting his ability to run the two funds, Soros resigned from the management of the Double Eagle Fund. The news outlet said it "withdrew" the article, which was published at 5:41 p.m. What is true is that to survive in that time and place, Tivadar Soros had his son George assume a non-Jewish identity "Sandor Kiss" and pose as the godson of a Hungarian agriculture. The article still appeared on Reuters' website as of 6:19 p.m. (SCROLL DOWN TO SEE A SCREENSHOT) Reuters apologized for the incident via Twitter: In 1966 he started a fund with $100,000 of the firm's money to experiment with his trading strategies. [90], In August 2009, Soros donated $35million to the state of New York to be earmarked for underprivileged children and given to parents who had benefit cards at the rate of $200 per child aged 3 through 17, with no limit as to the number of children that qualified. Subsequently, Prime Minister Mahathir of Malaysia accused me of causing the crisis, a wholly unfounded accusation. Paul Soros, Shipping Innovator, Dies at 87. "The over $32 billion that leftist billionaire George Soros poured into his organizations to spread his radical 'open society' agenda on abortion,' Marxist . [157], In February 2009, Soros said the world financial system had in effect disintegrated, adding that there was no prospect of a near-term resolution to the crisis. [144][145] For several days afterward, similar bombs were mailed to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and other Democrats and liberals. [194], In 2018, Soros highlighted that Europe faces major challenges related to immigration, austerity, and nations leaving the EU. "[76][77], On October 26, 1992, The New York Times quoted Soros as saying: "Our total position by Black Wednesday had to be worth almost $10billion. All the latest breaking news on George Soros. [4][34], In a discussion at the Los Angeles World Affairs Council in 2006, Alvin Shuster, former foreign editor of the Los Angeles Times, asked Soros, "How does one go from an immigrant to a financier? He is the chairman of Soros Fund Management. [3][219], On October 17, 2017, it was announced that Soros had transferred $18 billion to the Open Society Foundations. [245], Soros was the Financial Times Person of the Year for 2018, with the FT describing him as "a standard bearer for liberal democracy, an idea under siege from populists". Many national governments saw home ownership as a positive outcome and so introduced grants for first-time home buyers and other financial subsidies, such as the exemption of a primary residence from capital gains taxation. The online transcript of this speech received many views after Dick Cheney accidentally referred to FactCheck.org as "factcheck.com" in the vice presidential debate, causing the owner of that domain to redirect all traffic to Soros's site.[186]. [132], In October 2010, Soros donated $1million to support California's Proposition 19. [13], Born in Budapest to a non-observant Jewish family, Soros survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary and moved to the United Kingdom in 1947. ", "Black Lives Matters Defender May Become Philadelphia's Next District Attorney", "Here are the mega-donors and police unions pouring millions into the L.A. County district attorney race", "Another billionaire weighs in on state's attorney's race: George Soros gives $2M to group backing Foxx", "Biden Banks $242 Million as Big-Name Donors Write Huge Checks", "Analysis | Meet the mega-donors pumping millions into the 2022 midterms", "Waldemar Nielsen, Expert on Philanthropy, Dies at 88", "Soros: In revolutionary times the impossible becomes possible", "Saving Soviet Science: The Impact of Grants When Government R&D Funding Disappears", "World: Soros Says Revolutions Don't Build Democracies", "Alexander Lomaia Minister of Education and Science (Georgia)", "Does Foreign Funding Make NGOs into Puppets? "[181], On November 11, 2003, in an interview with The Washington Post, Soros said that removing President George W. Bush from office was the "central focus of my life" and "a matter of life and death". [51] While a student of the philosopher Karl Popper, Soros worked as a railway porter and as a waiter, and once received 40 from a Quaker charity. [103], According to Waldemar A. Nielsen, an authority on American philanthropy,[104] "[Soros] has undertaken nothing less than to open up the once-closed communist societies of Eastern Europe to a free flow of ideas and scientific knowledge from the outside world. These efforts, mostly in Central and Eastern Europe, occur primarily through the Open Society Foundations (originally Open Society Institute or OSI) and national Soros Foundations, which sometimes go under other names (such as the Stefan Batory Foundation in Poland). In 1960, he married Annaliese Witschak (born January 3, 1934). Soros has popularized the concepts of dynamic disequilibrium, static disequilibrium, and near-equilibrium conditions. One prominent Soros-related conspiracy theory is that he is behind the European migrant crisis or importing migrants to European countries. [220], In October 2018, Soros donated $2 million to the Wikimedia Foundation via the Wikimedia Endowment program. The people at Reuters are very sorry. "[128], Soros has helped fund the non-profit group Independent Diplomat, established by the former British diplomat Carne Ross. At its founding, Quantum Fund had $12 million in assets under management, and as of 2011[update] it had $25 billion, the majority of Soros's overall net worth. [135], The Project on Death in America, active from 1994 to 2003,[136] was one of the Open Society Institute's projects, which sought to "understand and transform the culture and experience of dying and bereavement. On September 28, 2004, he dedicated more money to the campaign and kicked off his own multistate tour with a speech, "Why We Must Not Re-elect President Bush",[185] delivered at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. [172] Soros called Steinmetz's suit "frivolous and entirely false" and said that it was "a desperate PR stunt meant to deflect attention from BSGR's mounting legal problems across multiple jurisdictions". In the US, home loans were guaranteed by the Federal government. [175], Hours later, in an apparent attempt to ally Israel with Hungary, Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a "clarification", denouncing Soros, stating that he "continuously undermines Israel's democratically elected governments by funding organizations that defame the Jewish state and seek to deny it the right to defend itself". He explains the title in the closing chapter by pointing out the parallels in this political context with the self-reinforcing reflexive processes that generate bubbles in stock prices. This was further amplified by public policy. (That is, we entered into contracts to deliver at future dates Thai baht and Malaysian ringgit that we did not currently hold.) "[108] His funding of pro-democratic programs in Georgia was considered by Georgian nationalists to be crucial to the success of the Rose Revolution, although Soros has said that his role has been "greatly exaggerated. [44] The Nazis barred Jewish children from attending school, and Soros and the other schoolchildren were made to report to the Judenrat ("Jewish Council"), which had been established during the occupation. On Sept. 16, 1992, the pound sterling collapsed, forcing Great Britain to withdraw from the European . Among those who held senior positions there at various times were Jim Rogers, Stanley Druckenmiller, Mark Schwartz, Keith Anderson, and Soros's two sons.[65][66][67]. The family changed its surname to Soros in 1936 because Jews were being persecuted. Just how influential is billionaire philanthropist George Soros? Although she was not Jewish, she was well-liked by Soros's parents as she had also experienced the privation and displacement brought about by World War II. And the rest of the world has to respond to that agenda. previous 1 2 next sort by previous 1 2 next * Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. "[113] In 1997, Soros closed his foundation in Belarus after it was fined $3million by the government for "tax and currency violations." "[188], In 2017, Soros described Donald Trump as a con man, and predicted Trump would fail because he believed Trump's ideas were self-contradictory. As of November 2022, he has a net worth of US$6.7billion, according to Forbes. Now 92, George Soros' net worth is still significant at an estimated $8.5 billion according to Bloomberg, which ranks him as the 227th wealthiest people in the world. By THR staff April 19, 2013 4:32am In October 2010, the. She opines that after the revolution the Soros Foundation and the NGOs were integrated into power. In the universe of false online information, Mr. Floyd remains alive and George Soros is to blame for the protests. I did it first in The Alchemy of Finance (in 1987), then in The Crisis of Global Capitalism (in 1998), and now in this book. This was the third in a series of books he has written that have predicted disaster. [174], In July 2017, a Hungarian billboard campaign backed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbn, which was considered to be anti-semitic by the country's Jewish groups, vilified Soros as an enemy of the state, using the slogan "Let's not allow Soros to have the last laugh". ivot. It allows us to focus on the final outcome rather than the process that leads up to it. He is known as "The Man Who Broke the Bank of England" because of his US$1 billion in investment profits during the 1992 Black Wednesday UK currency . [107], Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Soros's funding has played an important role in the newly independent countries. [177] Lydia Gall of Human Rights Watch asserted that it was reminiscent of Nazi posters during the Second World War featuring "'the laughing Jew'". "[192], Soros expected that Brexit would fail and the Premiership of Theresa May would last only a short time. ", "Brexiteers and alt-right unite against 'globalist' billionaire George Soros", "Philosophy, Reflexivity the Pillars of George Soros' Investment Success", "The Money Man: Can George Soros's millions insure the defeat of President Bush? George Soros, "On Israel, America and AIPAC". Reflexivity appears intermittently since it is most likely to be revealed under certain conditions; i.e., the character of the equilibrium process is best considered in terms of probabilities. (Much too soon, as it turned out. But that is a deception. [193] Soros also hosted a dinner for Conservative donors at his London home to encourage them to follow his lead. He studied at the London School of Economics and was awarded a BSc in philosophy in 1951, and then a Master of Science degree, also in philosophy, in 1954. Soros has wryly described his home as a Jewish antisemitic home. [52] Soros would sometimes stand at Speakers' Corner lecturing about the virtues of internationalism in Esperanto, which he had learned from his father. According to Alexander, Soros supports a two-state solution. In fact, when Norman Lamont said just before the devaluation that he would borrow nearly $15billion to defend sterling, we were amused because that was about how much we wanted to sell. Born in 1930 in Budapest, Hungary, George Soros was a native speaker of the international language, Esperanto. As the 2018 election period started, the government introduced public posters with a photo of Soros[118] to create hostility in the general public towards him, using statements such as "Soros wants millions of migrants to live in Hungary", and "Soros wants to dismantle the border fence". In many districts, such large contributions were unprecedented and the campaigning strategy was "turned on its head" with a focus on incarceration, police misconduct and bail system, according to the Los Angeles Times. They had three children: In 1983, George Soros married Susan Weber. [218] The Open Society Foundations has active programs in more than 60 countries around the world with total expenditures currently averaging approximately $600million a year. "This has George Soros . [127], In November 2005, Soros said: "My personal opinion is there's no alternative but to give Kosovo independence. Nine years later, in 2006, Mahathir met with Soros and afterward stated that he accepted that Soros had not been responsible for the crisis. Joe Rogan blasted George Soros on a recent episode of his podcast. [18], Soros is a supporter of progressive and liberal political causes, to which he dispenses donations through his foundation, the Open Society Foundations. We left most of the potential gain on the table because we were afraid that Mahathir would impose capital controls. ", Soros was believed to have traded billions of Finnish markkas on February 5, 1996, in anticipation of selling them short. George Soros could still live to the ripe old age of YYY. [204], In May 2014, Soros told CNN's Fareed Zakaria: "I set up a foundation in Ukraine before Ukraine became independent from Russia. [55], By 1981, the fund had grown to $400m, and then a 22% loss in that year and substantial redemptions by some of the investors reduced it to $200m. He also urged the United States not to allow the Chinese technology companies Huawei and ZTE to dominate the 5G telecommunications market as this would present an "unacceptable security risk for the rest of the world". He was also known as a powerful and influential supporter of liberal social causes. [69], In 2013, the Quantum Fund made $5.5billion, making it again the most successful hedge fund in history. December 18 2018. His 2003 book, The Bubble of American Supremacy[187], was a forthright critique of the Bush administration's "War on Terror" as misconceived and counterproductive, and a polemic against the re-election of Bush. George Soros, (born August 12, 1930, Budapest, Hungary), Hungarian-born American financier, author, philanthropist, and activist whose success as an investor made him one of the wealthiest men in the world. [236] Peter Soros was married to the former Flora Fraser, a daughter of Lady Antonia Fraser and the late Sir Hugh Fraser and a stepdaughter of the late 2005 Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter. "[45][46], Soros did not return to that job; his family survived the war by purchasing documents to say that they were Christians. Ruth Bader Ginsburg cannot be an inspirational, pivotal figure worthy of deep respect, she must be vaunted into sainthood. [213] He has also donated 64% of his original fortune, and distributed more than $15 billion through his Open Society Foundations (an international grantmaking network that supports advancing justice, education, public health and independent media). Soros had recognized the unfavorable position of the United Kingdom in the European Exchange Rate Mechanism. [33] His mother Erzsbet (also known as Elizabeth) came from a family that owned a thriving silk shop. In 1969, Soros set up the Double Eagle hedge fund with $4m of investors' capital including $250,000 of his own money. [115], Since 2012, the Hungarian Fidesz government has labelled George Soros as an enemy of the state, due to his humanitarian and political involvement in the European refugee crisis. Protests?" It was placed on life support, and it's still on life support. Tue, Jan 17, 2023. [189] Soros also said he believed Trump was preparing for a trade war and expected financial markets to do poorly.[190]. [195] He holds that Europe is facing an existential crisis, in view of the rise of populism, the refugee crisis and a growing rift between Europe and the United States. At 5:41 p.m. Eastern on Thursday afternoon, the 162-year-old news agency. [60] He has stated that his own financial success has been attributable to the edge accorded by his understanding of the action of the reflexive effect. However, Adam. [206], In January 2015, Soros called on the European Union to give $50billion of bailout money to Ukraine. Bloomberg reports, he has an estimated net worth of $8.5 Billion as of November. "George Soros, who died XXX at age XXX, was a predatory and hugely successful financier and investor, who argued paradoxically for years against the same sort of free-wheeling capitalism that. A Jew born in Hungary as the Nazis were gaining power in Germany, Soros survived World War Two and then emigrated to Great Britain, where he earned a degree from the London School of Economics in. [130] Among the drug decriminalization groups that have received funding from Soros are the Lindesmith Center and Drug Policy Foundation. [36] Tivadar had also been a prisoner of war during and after World War I until he escaped from Russia and rejoined his family in Budapest. [199] In January 2016, during an interview at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Soros stated that "[a] hard landing is practically unavoidable". [74] The estimated cost of Black Wednesday to the UK Treasury was 3.4billion. George Soros (/ s r o s / or / s r s /; Hungarian: Soros Gyrgy; born August 12, 1930, as Schwartz Gyrgy) is a Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. She was raised in California, earned an MBA from the University of Miami, and runs an Internet-based dietary supplement and vitamin-sales company. [47][48] In 1945, Soros survived the Siege of Budapest, in which Soviet and German forces fought house-to-house through the city. The government also prepared a three-part law plan called the "Stop Soros package" (which followed other various law changes[119] in the same year, hindering the workings of several international NGOs in Hungary), which would include various steps against NGOs doing volunteer work related to the refugee crisis. LOGIN Subscribe for $1. [89], Until the 2004 presidential election, Soros had not been a large donor to U.S. political campaigns. A rumor circulated last year and resurfaced in 2019, claiming that Adam Schiff's sister had been married to the son of George Soros, an oft-vilified billionaire philanthropist. This is a think tank composed of international economic, business, and financial experts, who are mandated to investigate radical new approaches to organizing the international economic and financial system. Since its inception in 1973, the fund has generated $40billion. L eft-wing billionaire George Soros steered hundreds of thousands of dollars more to an open borders nonprofit group in 2021 that may have violated federal law, records show.. Alianza Americas . Who is George Soros? George Soros Gets Criminal Justice All Wrong 'No Crime and No Punishment' was a pleasant daydream, but the results speak for themselves. 527). Tivadar Soros [1] ( Esperanto: Teodoro varc; born Theodor Schwartz; 7 April 1893 - 22 February 1968) was a Hungarian lawyer, author and editor. [49] When he was 17, Soros relocated to Paris before eventually moving to England. Tyranny: Inside the Open Society Foundations' Biggest Battle Yet", "George Soros Gets Hitched for Third Time", "George Soros: Hungarian government posters 'anti-Semitic', "Hungary: Soros Donates $250 Million to University in Budapest", "A veto gives the rule of law in Poland a reprieve", "How Vilification of George Soros Moved From the Fringes to the Mainstream", "Buckle up! Matt Welch, Open Season on 'Open Society': Why an anti-communist "Holocaust survivor is being demonized as a Socialist, Self-hating Jew". Newsweek. [2] [3] He is best known for being the father of billionaire George Soros, and engineer Paul Soros . He later moved to New York, and became a naturalized U . George Soros, himself, shelled out $170 million during the 2022 midterm elections in support of Democrats making him the biggest donor of the cycle. Forbes called him the "most generous giver" (in terms of percentage of net worth). [58] Reflexivity posits that market values are often driven by the fallible ideas of participants, not only by the economic fundamentals of the situation. He. [150], The notion of reflexivity provides an explanation of the theories of complexity economics, as developed at the Santa Fe Institute, although Soros had not publicized his views at the time the discipline was originally developed there in the 1980s.[151][152][153][154]. [168], In 2017, Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz filed a $10-million lawsuit against Soros, alleging that Soros had influenced the government of Guinea to freeze Steinmetz's company BSG Resources out of iron ore mining contracts in the African country due to "long-standing animus toward the state of Israel". [243], In January 2014, Soros was ranked number 1 in LCH Investments list of top 20 managers having posting gains of almost $42 billion since the launch of his Quantum Endowment Fund in 1973. These new actors on the scene do not yet have a standard name; my proposed term is "Soroi". Reuters has accidentally posted an obituary of hedge fund billionaire George Soros. The main reason for the backlash, after the wedding was announced, was George Soros wife age difference. Conversely, George Soros cannot be a financial shark who uses his immense wealth to influence politics, he must be devil-like figure, even a Nazi collaborator. By Robert D. Hershey Jr. June 15, 2013. [233][234] He was married to Daisy Soros (ne Schlenger), who, like her husband, was a Hungarian Jewish immigrant,[235] and with whom he had two sons, Peter and Jeffrey. [182][183] Soros gave $3million to the Center for American Progress, $2.5million to MoveOn.org, and $20million[184] to America Coming Together. I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes. 2017. vi LXXVI. (Photo: Sean Gallup/Getty Images. He received an honorary degree in economics from the University of Bologna in 1995. [155], Soros argues that the current system of financial speculation undermines healthy economic development in many underdeveloped countries. He and Jim Rogers reinvested their returns from the fund, and also a large part of their 20% performance fees, thereby expanding their stake. Soros is a Hungarian-American businessman and philanthropist. [176] According to the Israeli ambassador, the campaign "evokes sad memories but also sows hatred and fear", a reference to Hungary's role in the deportation of 500,000 Jews during the Holocaust. The New York Times termed this endeavor a "departure" for Soros whose philanthropic focus had been on fostering democracy and good government, but Soros noted that most poverty resulted from bad governance. and warns against the danger of nationalistic solutions to the economic crisis. According to OpenSecrets, during the 20032004 election cycle, Soros donated $23,581,000 to various 527 Groups (tax-exempt groups under the United States tax code, 26 U.S.C. [After] the boy cried wolf three times the wolf really came.[157]. [62] Double Eagle itself was an offshoot of Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder's First Eagle fund established by Soros and that firm's chairman Henry H. Arnhold in 1967. An OSI spokeswoman said "it appeared to us at that time that there was a right-to-counsel issue worthy of our support" but claimed later requests for support were declined. Further information on George Soros's philanthropy: Socit Gnrale insider trading conviction, Reflexivity, financial markets, and economic theory, View of problems in the free market system, Views on relations between Europe and Africa. As other fact checkers have noted, this is the only account of . "[161] According to hacked emails released in 2016, Soros's Open Society Foundation has a self-described objective of "challenging Israel's racist and anti-democratic policies" in international forums, in part by questioning Israel's reputation as a democracy. The markka had been put floating as a result of the early 1990s depression. "[141][142], A pipe bomb was placed in the mailbox at Soros's home in Katonah, New York, on October 22, 2018, as part of the October 2018 United States mail bombing attempts. GEORGE Soros is trending - here's why and how another fake obituary is sweeping the internet. George Soros is a billionaire philanthropist and founder of Open Society Foundations. [24], His extensive funding of political causes has made him a "bugaboo of European nationalists". George Soros[a] HonFBA (born Gyrgy Schwartz, August 12, 1930)[1][2] is a Hungarian-American[b] businessman and philanthropist. ", "George Soros attacks Hungarian prime minister for building a 'mafia state', "Macedonia to George Soros and USAID: Go Away", "Why is the State Department refusing to disclose Soros' involvement in Macedonia? Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League later said that Soros's comments held a simplistic view, were counterproductive, biased and a bigoted perception of the situation, and "blamed the victim" when holding Jews responsible for antisemitism. 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