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25: Michael Ignatieff: Fighting Orban's Global Conservative Cabal

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The Anti-Semitic Politics of George Soros

Alistair Campbell: When you left politics, you went back to academia. One of the positions you took was in Budapest at the University of Central Europe. And if I'm right about this, Orban targeted you because Soros is one of the hate figures for the populist right. Just give us a sense of what that was like and whether that was simply somebody doing using Soros in the way that DeSantis is using his targets,. or whether there was a deeper anti-Semitic thing going on there. What were the politics behind that in your assessment? Oh, some of it, I think was frankly anti-Semitic. There's no question. They came after Central European University because it

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