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| '''Billionaire ]''' has been criticized by a number of different commentators on many issues, ranging from his financial support of various controversial organizations, his reported tax evasions and his views on Israel, the United States, and ]. | |||
| == Views on Anti-Semitism == | |||
| George Soros is a Hungarian-born Jew who escaped the ] by going to ] as a child. Soros has blamed Europe's anti-Semitism as a result of policies created by the United States and Israel, saying "There is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe. The policies of the ] and the ] contribute to that."<ref name="fpp">{{cite web|url=http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/03/11/JTA071103.html |title=In rare Jewish appearance, George Soros says Jews and Israel cause anti-Semitism |accessdate=2007-10-05}}</ref><ref name="judaism">{{cite web|url=http://judaism.about.com/library/2_americanjewry/bl_soros.htm |title=George Soros Blames Jews for Anti-Semitism |accessdate=2007-10-05}}</ref> ], national director of the ], called Soros's comments “absolutely obscene". <ref name="judaism">{{cite web|url=http://judaism.about.com/library/2_americanjewry/bl_soros.htm |title=George Soros Blames Jews for Anti-Semitism |accessdate=2007-10-05}}</ref> Soros has called for a "regime change" in the United States has spoken of funding projects in Palestine.<ref name="fpp">{{cite web|url=http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/03/11/JTA071103.html |title=In rare Jewish appearance, George Soros says Jews and Israel cause anti-Semitism |accessdate=2007-10-05}}</ref> He is often criticized by the Jewish community for failing to give funding to their causes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/1245/edition_id/12/format/html/displaystory.html |title=28th richest man in America, George Soros, needs a Jewish connection |accessdate=2007-10-05}}</ref> | |||
| == Criticism of funding == | |||
| George Soros has been accused of helping to fund 'smear sites' like ] and Media Matters, according to ], ], and other groups.<ref name="soros1">{{cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,268043,00.html |title=Buying Political Power |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref><ref name="soros2">{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/dsouza200410190831.asp |title=The World According to Soros |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref> Soros has financially supported ], donating over twenty millions dollars to the group since 2001 and has donated millions to ].<ref name="soros1">{{cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,268043,00.html |title=Buying Political Power |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref> That foundation has donated money to ], a group highly critical of O'Reilly. | |||
| O'Reilly has claimed that Soros's goal "is to buy a presidential election... find and fund a candidate who will tacitly do what he or she is told to do."<ref name="soros1">{{cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,268043,00.html |title=Buying Political Power |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref> | |||
| In late March of 2002 Soros announced he was giving three million dollars to Budapest Open Access Initiative to set up open-archiving systems. Soros was accused of "foolishly spending millions <nowiki></nowiki> undermining libraries, librarians, authors and referees".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1885931.stm |title=Critics attack net journal initiative |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref> | |||
| In September 2002 Soros's ] gave $20,000 to the Defense Committee of lawyer ] who defended terrorists in court and was sentenced to 28 months in prison for "providing material support for a terrorist conspiracy".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200502170843.asp |title=Soros Funded Stewarts Defense |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://stoptheaclu.com/archives/2006/10/16/terrorist-supporting-lawyer-lynne-stewart-gets-slap-on-the-wrist/ |title=Terrorist Supporting Lawyer, Lynne Stewart, Gets Slap On The Wrist |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_4_57/ai_n13487687 |title=A New York jury found Lynne Stewart guilty on all of the counts against her |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref> | |||
| == Criticism of 'tax evading' and finances == | |||
| George Soros has heavily been criticized for avoiding to pay taxes in the United States.<ref name="soros1">{{cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,268043,00.html |title=Buying Political Power |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref> Soros moved his headquarters to the tax free Caribbean country of Curacao, which is outside of the supervision of the United States Government. The Netherlands Antilles has repeatedly been cited by the Task Force on Money Laundering of the ] (OECD) as one of the world's most important centers for laundering illegal proceeds of the Latin American cocaine and other drug traffic. It is a possession of the Netherlands. <ref name="taxes">{{cite web|url=http://www.freedomdomain.com/soros01.html |title=George Soros and the Rothschilds Connection |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref><ref name="jewishreview">{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1203/mason_soros.php3 |title=The sorry tale of George Soros |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref><ref name="questions">{{Cite web|url=http://www.questionsquestions.net/docs04/engdahl-soros.html |title=The Secret Financial Network Behind "Wizard" George Soros |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/6/23/35240603.pdf |title=OECD Investment Policy Reviews, Netherland Antilles |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref> | |||
| Former ] for the Republican Party ] stated that Soros money "could be drug money" and "we don't know where it comes from".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://slate.com/id/2106077/ |title=Dennis Hastert on Dope |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref> Soros accused Hastert of trying to smear him and demanded an apology.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pekingduck.org/archives/001691.php |title=George Soros demands apology from Dennis Hastert |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref> | |||
| == ] in the United States == | |||
| George Soros has personally expressed a strong disliking of ].<ref name="soros2">{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/dsouza200410190831.asp |title=The World According to Soros |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref> In 2004 he stated defeating Bush was "the central focus of my life," and "a matter of life and death."<ref name="soros3">{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A24179-2003Nov10?language=printer|title=Soros's Deep Pockets vs. Bush |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref> He also said "America, under Bush, is a danger to the world" and claimed "<nowiki></nowiki> is undermining American values". He says he "been demonized by the Bush campaign" and donated more then 15.5 million in a failed attempt to defeat Bush in 2004.<ref name="soros3">{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A24179-2003Nov10?language=printer|title=Soros's Deep Pockets vs. Bush |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0928-16.htm |title=Why We Must Not Re-elect President Bush |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5476317 |title=George Soros, Maintaining Political Interest |accessdate=2007-10-05}}</ref> | |||
| == Support for ] == | |||
| George Soros has donated millions of dollars towards organizations advocating the legalization of drugs in the United States and has been called the "Daddy Warbucks of drug legalization" by Joseph Califano Jr. of Columbia University's National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.russbaker.com/The%20Nation%20-%20George%20Soro's%20Long%20Strange%20Trip.htm |title=George Soros's Long Strange Trip |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref> He calls the legalization a "harms reduction" and criminal activity associated with the use of drugs will supposedly be reduced if the US government takes over the ] and provides drugs and drug paraphernalia to addicts.<ref name="acc">{{cite web|url=http://www.aim.org/special_report/A2089_0_8_0_C/ |title=The Hidden Soros Agenda: Drugs, Money, the Media, and Political Power |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref> Soros has contributed to the passing of thirteen drug legalization laws in nine different states,<ref name="states">{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalfamilies.org/guide/gsoros.html |title=George Soros - Drug Legalization |accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref> including the legalization of marijuana for medical purposes in California and Arizona.<ref>{{Cite news |first = Judith |last= Miller |title=With Big Money and Brash Ideas, A Billionaire Redefines Charity |url=http://www.druglibrary.org/olsen/dpf/soros.html |date=1996-12-17 |accessdate=2007-10-05}}</ref> | |||
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