Billionaire falsely labeled Jewish by dark money group in ‘antisemitism’ dig

Published August 6, 2024 3:00am ET



A project of a left-wing dark money group linked to anti-Israel protests inaccurately labeled Hansjorg Wyss, a Swiss billionaire and philanthropist, as Jewish in an attempt to frame Republicans as antisemitic.

A More Perfect Union, an initiative under the San Francisco-based Tides Center, a nonprofit organization funding groups behind Hamas-sympathetic rallies following the Oct. 7 attack, published an article earlier this year declaring that critics attack “wealthy Jewish philanthropists” such as Wyss and George Soros, a Holocaust survivor, as “part of a larger effort to paint wealthy Jews as sinister puppeteers.” The article focused on the term “Zuckerbucks” that the GOP has used since 2020 to refer to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s grants to election agencies that they argue promoted illegality.

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