[NYPOST] It takes him more than a thousand words to get to it, at least in the updated version now online, but The Washington Post’s Philip Bump basically calls our own Isabel Vincent an antisemite for reporting on how the Soros family foundation and other lefty charities have been funding the campus protests.
The connection, he argues, "is so tenuous as to be obviously contrived," as he lays out how the payments Vincent actually traced (via various intermediate nonprofits) only account for a tiny percentage of known cash that various protest leaders actually pocketed, and anyway those intermediaries (like Jewish Voice for Peace, the Tides Foundation, Education for Just Peace in the Middle East and the Westchester People’s Action Coalition Foundation) get lots of money from lots of places.
But readers, Bump insists, are "meant to think" that "Soros is a nefarious figure bent on using his wealth to reshape the world": It’s all "vague insinuations leveraging well-worn rhetoric and a preexisting visceral response to the Jewish billionaire," and: "There’s a term for allegations like that."
| It’s easy, actually: if the speaker uses Mr. Soros as an example of how horrible all Jews are, that’s antisemitism. If, on the other hand, the speaker loathes Mr. Soros because he is a truly loathsome example of humanity, his Jewishness incidental and not representative of Jews as a whole, then he is not a Jew-hater, but a nuanced and insightful thinker on the subject |
The basic piece went online within six hours of Vincent’s report, a rapid turnaround enabled by the fact that Bump isn’t a journalist, but a stenographer for Soros.
Yes, the Soros camp always insists that any criticism of his giving is nothing but antisemitism — whether it’s the latest news, or his quiet, yearslong, all-too-successful effort to transform the justice system by helping forces of Evil win election as district attorneys.
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