Billionaire Alex Soros shares post to condemn the killing of Israeli embassy staffers... then gets blasted for glaring contradiction
Billionaire megadonor Alex Soros is taking heat after expressing sympathies for a young Israeli diplomat couple who were shot dead by a pro-Palestinian activist.
The son of longtime liberal sugar daddy George Soros, in 2023 his father handed over much of his fortune and the chairmanship of his Open Society Foundations.
Soros angered many when he posted his thoughts on the killing of Yaron Lischinsky, an Israeli citizen, and Sarah Milgrim, an American, who were a young couple about to be engaged.
They were shot dead while leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday evening by Elias Rodriguez, 31, who according to police yelled, 'Free, free Palestine ' after he was arrested.
Soros wrote Thursday: 'The murder of Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky at the Capital Jewish Museum was evil in its most basic form. This brutal antisemitic act must be condemned in the strongest terms.'
Many online expressed their fury at what appeared to be hypocrisy from one of the left's leading benefactors.
'Alex Soros unclear how funding rabid Jew-hating organizations and individuals could lead to the killing of Jews,' wrote Joanne Mason.
Another X user wrote: 'You and your father fund the mayhem in America and elsewhere. SO, perhaps you should sit this one out.'
'Bro do you own a mirror,' added another.
One more said: 'But you'll keep writing the checks to these anti Semitic scum. You did this.'
Soros' Open Society Foundation is alleged to give money to causes and groups sympathetic to Palestine and leftist organizations that hate the existence of Israel, according to Fox News.
When he took over OSF, Israel's minister of diaspora affairs and social equality Amichai Chikli said he was just like his father in his hatred of the Jewish state.
'It looks like the son is a replica of his father. We have no expectation that his son will be a big Zionist,' he said.
His father has also been slammed by Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan.
'For years, Soros has backed and transferred money to organizations supporting BDS that want to isolate Israel,' he said.
Alex has described himself as his father's 'loyal parasite' in a recent interview with New York Magazine, adding that for years now, he has been by his father's side learning from the best about how to influence politics.
Insiders with deep ties to OSF told the magazine that they thought Jonathan was 'the one' who would, and should take over. One even compared Alex to Roman Roy, the infamous failson in the hit TV show 'Succession.'
And now, with the second Trump era in full swing, Alex is coming off a failed election season spent hobnobbing with Democratic elites more determined than ever to use his father's fortune to severely limit the president's power.
His vague plan appears to be spending big in the upcoming midterm elections to elect Democrats and erase GOP majorities in the House and Senate.
Alex being thrust to center stage comes after years of conservative politicians using George Soros as their bogeyman to mobilize voters.
Trump especially has ill feelings for Soros, as at least some of his wealth landed in the coffers of Alvin Bragg when he was running to be the Manhattan District Attorney in 2019.
'Alvin Bragg received in EXCESS OF ONE MILLION DOLLARS from the Radical Left Enemy of "TRUMP," George Soros,' Trump wrote on Truth Social just a week before he was indicted on the Stormy Daniels hush money case.
Trump was then dragged into court for weeks during the heat of the 2024 campaign and was later convicted of all 34 felony counts against him.
Of course, because Trump won re-election, he avoided all consequences from those convictions.
When asked who he thinks should lead the Democrats, a party that doesn't seem to have a clear standard-bearer at the moment, Alex only reinforced that view with his answer.
'Who do I draw inspiration from when I listen to them speak? Josh Shapiro is great. AOC is great. You know, Raphael Warnock is great. You know, Gretchen Whitmer is great. I mean, I like Tim Walz. Chris Murphy. Brian Schatz. Like, these guys are great,' he said.
And although he doesn't subscribe to the view that courts will ultimately be enough to sidetrack Trump's agenda, the Soros family donated at least $2 million to Susan Crawford, the Democrat who went on to win the Wisconsin Supreme Court race in early April.
Crawford defeated Brad Schimel, who had the backing of Elon Musk and his various Super PACs which donated a combined $22 million.
As Alex continues to mature in his leadership role at Open Society Foundations (OSF), he is overseeing the final stages of a vast restructuring of the organization that has been going on since 2017.
OSF is down to 500 employees, when eight years ago there were about 1,700. The foundation has also closed or scaled back programs related to public health, early-childhood education, journalism and university scholarships.
OSF says will continue it doling out grants to causes it deems worthy, but Alex is certainly more in favor of reorienting the group to focus more directly on political contributions.
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