Went down a rabbit hole looking at Israeli propaganda this morning & I came across one of the most glaring examples: The far-right anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about George Soros appear to have originated with Netanyahu’s advisors https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/netanyahu-advisers-hatched-anti-semitic-conspiracy-against-george-soros
Netanyahu advisers hatched anti-Semitic conspiracy against George

Hungary's leader also pushed message that Muslims were country's enemies.

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/netanyahu-advisers-hatched-anti-semitic-conspiracy-against-george-soros
George Birnbaum and the late Arthur Finkelstein, two Jewish-American political consultants, chose Soros as the “perfect enemy” for their work promoting Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán’s campaign https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6616827/How-two-Jewish-American-political-consultants-started-deliberate-plot-smear-George-Soros.html
Two political consultants 'started deliberate plot to smear Soros'

George Birnbaum and the late Arthur Finkelstein 'devised a plan to discredit billionaire Soros, left, as part of work for right wing politician Victor Orbán', right.The pair dubbed him 'the perfect...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6616827/How-two-Jewish-American-political-consultants-started-deliberate-plot-smear-George-Soros.html
Orbán is quite a study in contradiction — ultimately he’s a nationalist who plays both sides of the anti-Semitism problem https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/world/europe/orban-hungary-antisemitism.html
A Friend to Israel, and to Bigots: Viktor Orban’s ‘Double Game’ on Anti-Semitism (Published 2019)

Hungary’s leader has backed Jewish institutions and causes, and befriended Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel — while making use of anti-Semitic tropes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/world/europe/orban-hungary-antisemitism.html
Birnbaum & Finkelstein’s cynical weaponization of anti-Semitism in service to power turned George Soros into an alt-right meme. Netanyahu & Israeli PR seems to encourage this type of weaponization as political means to acquiring power. A very dangerous game
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