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Thu Dec 16, 2021, 12:21 AM Dec 2021

(Jewish Group) Fox News Deletes Soros 'Puppet Master' Cartoon After ADL Calls Out Antisemitism

After the Anti-Defamation League called out Fox News on Wednesday, the cable giant deleted its social-media posts portraying Jewish philanthropist George Soros as a “puppet master”—a common antisemitic trope.

Posted to both the network’s Instagram and Facebook pages this week, the cartoon by conservative illustrator A.F. Branco features the liberal billionaire Soros—who has long been a right-wing catch-all bogeyman—controlling local prosecutors and attorneys general.

The Soros figure, pulling puppet strings emblazoned with the words “$ORO$,” forces the other characters—both portrayed as Democratic donkeys—to hold up signs reading “Defund Police” and “No Bail,” obviously referencing right-wing complaints about progressive local and state criminal-justice policies and Soros’ supposed influence on them.

Fox News captioned the cartoons with the phrase “The puppet master” on both its Instagram and Facebook pages. Before being deleted on Wednesday afternoon, the IG post racked up roughly 16,000 likes.




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Never fails that those who claim not to be anti-Semites, reveal in using anti-Semitic imagery. Of course, they always defend themselves with "but we support Israel" or "some of my best friends are Jews" or "I have many Jewish supporters."

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