By 2016, Finkelstein and Birnbaum have made Orban’s 2018 reelection campaign almost entirely about certain Hungarians’ implicitly anti-Semitic fear of the octogenarian Soros; as The Intercept will note, Orban was thus convinced by two Jewish men, Finkelstein and Birnbaum, to “focus[] his entire re-election campaign on the imaginary threat [to Hungary] posed by Soros.”118 Per BuzzFeed News, “Orban’s campaign against Soros never actually used the word Jew, but it was often implicit. Orban told his people they would have to fight against an ‘enemy’ who was ‘different,’ who didn’t have a ‘home.’
...more
