George Soros's Open Society Foundation Strikes Again

What Is Wrong with Some Jews?

I do not want to remain silent any longer about a most painful subject, namely, the dangerous divisions among Jews. I am not comfortable even asking because I'm not in favor of Jews fighting with each other at especially dangerous times.

However, I am not in favor of herd thinking. I respect independent thought. I believe that we all must learn to celebrate, not merely tolerate, both difference--and differences. I wrote exactly this in my 1972 book, Women and Madness.

What's a girl to do? Well, here I go. My questions.

Why do so many well-meaning Jews in America continue to organize their very own to-be-funded and/or not-for-profit groups to document and fight Judeophobia and Israel hatred? Why can't grassroots American Jews unite, at least to some extent, in order to strategize their plans and enlarge their effects? Even in the most perilous of times, must we remain incapable of working together? Of insisting on charting our own course?

Even more painful, how can American rabbis and their shul-going and other followers find it a point of ethical Jewish pride to savagely critique Israel and other Jews even as antisemitism and anti-Zionism are on the rise? However politely I’ve questioned people like this before, I've never even received a response. Such critics no longer "speak" to those with whom they disagree.

And, ironically, here am I, also criticizing Jewish behavior.

My most painful question: How can Israelis continue to demonstrate against their own government, even as their country is under the most profound attack? Even assuming that some of their critiques are valid, "have they no shame?" Are they totally unaware of how much their protests, articles, chants, and written language embolden Hamas and endanger our precious hostages even further? Endanger themselves?

I have yet to make my peace with the misguided but popular refrain: "Bring Them Home" as if that is not precisely what the Israelis and the IDF are trying--and dying--to do. The chant should be directed against Hamas: "Let them Go, Let Our People Go."

I know: We are a hot-tempered people, just as others are. We are all prone to make mistakes. Just as others do. But some Israelis seem to go out of their way to tarnish Israel's reputation. They pile on to the lethal lies being told about how Israel is conducting its current just war of self-defense.

Today, of course, the New York Anti-Zionist Times has published an op-ed piece by three people: Aseel Aburass (the director of the "occupied Palestinian territory department" at Physicians for Human Rights, Israel (PHRI); Tirza Leibowitz, "the deputy director of programs;" and Itamar Mann, who is an "international law professor at the University of Haifa." The article is titled: The Death of Gaza in Slow Motion.

As the link shows, PHRI is on record accusing Israel of committing a "genocide" in Gaza. However, the reasoned and factual push back against this accusation has led these authors to find a new and different way of defining "genocide" so that Israel can indeed be found guilty of it. Since Israel is not out to destroy the people of Gaza as Gazans or even as ostensible "Palestinians," there has to be another way of understanding "genocide." And here it is. As the Physicians for Human Rights, Israel, they have concluded: "Through the wholesale destruction of Gaza's health care system, Israel is committing genocide, but on a longer timeline than direct killing would imply...the health system that would treat all these people is simply gone."

Proudly, these authors take credit for having published and presented a different understanding of genocide, one that bypasses Article II(c) of the 1948 Genocide Convention. Theirs is a "genocide on a different temporal scale." They go on to imagine all the health difficulties that may and, in their view, no doubt will, ensue.

Nowhere do they mention the role that Iran/Hamas/Qatar/the entire Arab Muslim and Western world have played in terms of the non-delivery of health care to a people purposely exposed to danger for the sake of propaganda. Israel alone is condemned as responsible for what normally happens in a warzone. Nowhere do these authors look into the non-delivery or the delayed delivery of health care to citizens within Israel due to the consequences of Hamas's attack on Israeli civilians on 10/7 and due to the rockets launched thereafter by Iran, the Houthis, Hezbollah, and Hamas against civilian Israel. Nowhere do they mention the wholesale trauma suffered by the nation as well as by exhausted and/or wounded members of the IDF. Nowhere do they focus on the exhaustion of the health care providers in Israel.

What is the common link between these three authors, two of whom are lawyers? None other than George Soros's Open Society Foundation. And other left-wing Western foundations.

Tirza Leibowitz has been a paid director at George Soros’s Open Society Foundation for more than fifteen years. She is also a graduate of the Hebrew University Law School. Here is one of her fundraising sites.

Itamar Mann is a graduate of Yale University Law School and a law professor at the University of Haifa Law School. Mann has also "provided services" to the Open Society Foundation.

The PHRI’s point of view (their "context") may be understood in a long position paper they released in July 2025. It begins with Israel's "forcible displacement of 80% of Palestinians in 1948 (the Nakba)."

Aseel Aburass is a researcher and project manager who works with B'Tzelem and with Physicians for Human Rights, Israel. She obtained her M.A. from Tel Aviv University and participated in a Partners for a Progressive Israel symposium titled: "Every Day is October 7th." I doubt they are referring to 10/7 2023.

Unsurprisingly, B'Zelem is funded by George Soros's Open Society Foundation as well as by European and American groups.

In short, these authors have all been educated at Israeli Universities. Yet, their priorities are entirely with the people of Gaza. Passing strange, yes? What am I missing?

George Soros, the founder and funder of the Open Society Foundation, was himself born to a Hungarian-Jewish family. He changed his name from "Schwarz" to "Soros." He survived Nazi persecution. According to Rachel Ehrenfeld's prescient book The Soros Agenda, he earned his fortune as a hedge-fund investor. Soros has funded the legalization of drugs in certain American states as well as open borders or uncontrolled migration. He has also funded American elections. And left-wing groups, especially if they are anti-Zionists.

As I've risked asking: Really, what is wrong with some Jews?