"the anti-defamation League" (ADL) – a Jewish non-governmental human rights organization based in the United States, accused the lawyer, U.S. President Rudolph Giuliani in anti-Semitism. The Jewish lobby condemned the personal lawyer of Donald trump for what he said billionaire George Soros, a Holocaust survivor, "there can hardly be a Jew."
Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of ADL, commented on the statements Giuliani in light of the many anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Soros, which are popular among the extreme right in an interview with The Daily Beast.
"for decades, the philanthropy of George Soros was used as fodder for endless anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, claiming that there is Jewish control and manipulation of national and global events."
Giuliani said in an interview new York magazine Intelligencer that he was "more Jewish" than Soros.
"don't tell me that I'm an anti-Semite, if I'm against it," he said. "Soros is hardly a Jew. I'm more of a Jew than Soros. I will say more - he does not go to Church, he does not go to the synagogue. It doesn't belong to the synagogue, he does not support Israel, he is an enemy of Israel. He chose eight anarchist prosecutors in the United States. He is a terrible man," said Giuliani.
Giuliani also claimed in an interview that Soros "controlled" Marie Yovanovitch, the former Ambassador of the USA in Ukraine, "He sent in all four ambassadors. And he hires FBI agents".
Soros, who is also a philanthropist and democratic activist, is at the center of numerous, far-right conspiracy theories that claim that it controls the American media and has huge political influence. Many people believe these theories to promote anti-Semitic ideology, according to which the Jewish people secretly controls many global institutions.
"anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and false accusations put forward by Rudolph Giuliani and his minions aimed at the incitement of hatred, undermining of democracy, and a distraction from the impeachment process and critical issues of national security and the Constitution before Congress," said Laura silber, a spokesman of the charity network of the Soros Foundation, the Open Society Foundation.
