American Republican operatives who helped conceive the attacks on Soros. Orban regularly uses his friendship with Netanyahu to beat back charges of anti-Semitism, while Netanyahu shrugs off criticism over his friendship with Orban, who is a reliable voice in the counsels of Europe defending Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. In this way, the ethnonationalism of the Jewish state finds common cause with the Hungarian flavor of ethnonationalism, which has deep roots in anti-Semitism.
