Billionaire in New York: Alexander Soros as a Foe of Palestinian Rights

22 May 2026

“Several years ago, Soros hired a full-time public-relations assistant, who works primarily on the foundation side of his bifurcated life.”

Connie Bruck, “The World According to George Soros”, New Yorker, 16 January 1995.

“I don’t believe in standing in the way of an avalanche.”

Sewell Chan, “Soros: I can’t Stop A Republican Avalanche”, New York Times, 11 October 2010.

“The greater the uncertainty, the more investors are likely to take their cue from the stock market.”

George Soros, “After Black Monday”, 70 Foreign Policy, pp.65 – 82 (1988).

Alexander Soros is the son of his parents. Although we have addressed him and his father before, the need to shed light on the problem of his intellectual location and political performance is necessary, given his insistence to be simultaneously an influential actor in the politics of the Democratic party, a geopolitical diplomatic envoy for the United States and NATO, and a promoter of democracy and human rights globally.

Young Soros’s parents are typical American Jewish liberals with inherent denial of Palestine, the Palestinians, their experience, and their rights. They can be framed as Hillary Clinton on steroids in a political community dominated by the instinctive inclinations of Charles Schumer, flavored with Bill Maher’s snapshot commentary. Alexander Soros’s mother is a history of arts professor at Bard College, an esteemed academic institution, recipient of her former husband’s grand donations over the years. Alexander’s father is a financial markets speculator with aspirations towards philosophy and philanthropy.

George Soros sets an example for the astute materialist thirst of Bill Ackman who in turn infuses intellectual curiosity at Harvard. Soros’s moral authority is therefore fundamentally tainted by his main pursuit in life. His longtime media promoter Laura Silber has persistently advocated him through a selective version of his personal history, failing to redeem Soros’s unattractive appeal to communities of human rights, social justice, and anti-American domination.  Soros’s comfortable association with Henry Kissinger abolished the attempt to bolster his foundation as a champion of human rights by recruiting the celebrated civil rights activist and concurrently Cold War warrior Aryeh Neier.

Soros benefited in the Guardian from exaggerated compliments for some of his unrepresentative foundational and other policy decisions in order to debunk his messianic belief in a post-Cold War order and end of history paradigm premised on free markets, foreign investments, and the formation of democratic institutions.[1] The author of the essay spent the first and other parts of the analysis emphasizing that his criticism does not constitute antisemitism. No suggestion was made about the nature of the support for Israel, actively and passively, that defines influential segments of the American Jewish community and Soros. Contrary to the implicit proposition, Soros did not move leftward even after 2001. The substance of the article does not rise to the expectations set by its title.

Intervention in financial markets to seek profit regardless of consequences has shaped George Soros’s life perception. Psychological origin for the praying propensity may be traced to Soros’s unflattering experience during the Second World War. Soros said during an interview with 60 Minutes in 1998 “I am basically there to make money. I cannot and do not look at the social consequences of what I do.” Crashing financial markets remain Soros’s main field of specialty.[2] His consequential interventions include Britain [3] and Thailand.[4] His conviction of insider trading in France demonstrates the rule in Soros’s unrestrained monetary quests.[5]

Soros’s hollow essay of April 2007 in the New York Review of Books about the Israel lobby’s influence on American foreign policy should be understood as an attempt to remain relevant within democratic intellectual circles, particularly at Harvard, given the anticipated backlash after the vicious attacks against former President Jimmy Carter, whose 2006 book about Palestine / Israel included the word apartheid in its title. Undermining Carter was followed by a worse campaign against Mearsheimer and Walt’s essay on the Israel lobby’s domination of American foreign policy regarding Palestine and the Middle East, which was not published in the United States, but only in the London Review of Books. Soros’s support for Israel is identical to the New York Times’s, as both decline to acknowledge the country’s glaring coloniality, apartheid, and debilitated engagement in diabolical accusatorial terrorism.

Soros's son has found it difficult to cope with life’s challenges and hardships. He grew up as a spoiled partying rich kid from the Hamptons, plunging into a nihilistic lifestyle of partying in New York, not far from the culture produced by Epstein and many of the leading members of the American political class. His parents rescued him, pushing him towards a PhD program. They inspired him to find purpose in establishing an organization that deals with the most unnecessary topic in the United States: antisemitism. His road to glory was paved. Eventually, reveling Soros was installed as his father’s successor despite an earlier pledge from the elder stockbroker not to crown his foundation tribally.

Alexander Soros felt relevant by defending his father against attacks made by the Hungarian Prime Minister Orban. Finally, he might be doing the right thing, and hence was approaching his father with a push from his mother in ordinary wealthy families’ opportunistic relationships. Once Orban was defeated in Hungary and a new Prime Minister rose to power, it was an opportunity for Alexander Soros to express a globalist opinion on the subject, as he and his father often did. But the new Prime Minister called Netanyahu and asked him not to visit Hungary because he would be arrested. Traditional numbness captured the rising philanthropist who placed his bets on the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, a close arms trade partner of Israel and a vulgar public visitor of the country, upon a compelling appeal from the Trump administration.[6]

Both George and Alexander Soros failed to use their influence with the Biden administration to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza. On the contrary, they wholeheartedly accepted a medal of honor from the complicit American president. In June 2024, even Aryeh Neier meagerly reached the inevitable conclusion in the New York Review of Books about Israel’s appalling behavior. Yet, the Israel lobby backed Biden[7]enjoyed the full support of the intellectual philanthropist venturer and his socialite son. Alexander also complained that the money of his father’s foundation is reaching groups that keep relating to Palestine.  Undoubtedly, the moral failures of both throughout history could not trigger a sense of decency at a pivotal moment.

Alexander Soros does not fit the position he purports to advance following the footsteps of his father’s unpersuasive grandiose path. Team Soros – Silber is not adequate and is hostile to Palestinian rights. They must be dismissed.  

Alexander Soros with Schumer. Source: New York Post, 31 August 2024.

George Soros and Hillary Clinton. Source: Politico, 6 January 2016.

[1] Daniel Bessner, “The George Soros Philosophy – and its fatal flaw”, The Guardian, 6 July 2018.

[2] George Soros, “After Black Monday”, 70 Foreign Policy, pp.65 – 82 (1988).

[3] Larry Elliot, “George Soros’s indelible mark on UK runs deeper than Black Wednesday”, The Guardian, 12 June 2023. The author’s attempt to complicate Soros’s intentions and character should be understood as healthy British humor and cynicism.

[4] See Bank of Thailand, Lessons learnt from the Asian Financial Crisis, Undated, available at: https://www.bot.or.th/en/our-roles/special-measures/Tom-Yum-Kung-lesson.html.  

[5] Heather Smith, “Soros Insider – Trade Appeal Rejected by Human Rights Court”, Bloomberg, 27 March 2012.

[6] See also Nen Si, “Alex Soros Shares Photo with Prime Minister Rama: ‘Back by Popular Demand’”, Albania Euronews, 17 February 2025.

[7] See Branco Marcetic, “An Untold History of Joe Biden’s Support for Israel”, In These Times, 24 July 2024.