George Soros’s son links bomb attacks to anti-Semitism, Trump campaign

The son of Jewish billionaire George Soros says a bomb placed in the mailbox of his father’s home, as well as explosive devices sent to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, are not “divorced” from the anti-Semitism he says has emerged from US President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

“While the responsibility lies with the individual or individuals who sent these lethal devices to my family home and Mr. Obama’s and Ms. Clinton’s offices, I cannot see it divorced from the new normal of political demonization that plagues us today,” Alexander Soros writes in The New York Times.

The younger Soros in the op-ed says his father’s liberal and political philanthropy was inspired by his experiences as a Holocaust survivor. Until Trump’s 2016 campaign, he says, his father suffered anti-Semitic attacks, but only on the fringes.

“Mr. Trump’s final TV ad famously featured my father; Janet Yellen, chairwoman of the Federal Reserve; and Lloyd Blankfein, chairman of Goldman Sachs — all of them Jewish — amid dog-whistle language about ‘special interests’ and ‘global special interests’,” he writes. “A genie was let out of the bottle, which may take generations to put back in, and it wasn’t confined to the United States.”

At the time of the ad, a number of Jewish groups condemned what they said were its anti-Semitic insinuations.