Oy.

It's clear that the Orban regime in Hungary has an anti-refugee and anti-immigrant philosophy. The poster campaign reflects those sentiments, that's clear. And certainly, the Orban regime's attitude toward refugees and immigrants may well stem from the same attitudes that generated Hungary's anti-Semitic history.

The Orban poster campaign has a weird emphasis on Soros, a wealthy Jew - and there's a good chance Orban is expressing the anti-Semitism of his regime in the poster campaign. And certainly, some of the anti-Soros graffiti added to the posters is probably anti-Semitic.

As for Netanyahu, that's another matter. Since January of this year, the United States has had a President elected by a minority. Trump got 3 MILLION votes fewer than Clinton did, and it's a mess. Trump is doing all sorts of dirty tricks to impose the will of his minority upon the rest of us. Now, Israel has been ruled by a minority for years and years, and Netanyahu and his Likud predecessors have been paying their dirty tricks on the Israeli and Palestinian peoples for years. Forming alliances with right-wing interests all over the earth, is just one of Netanyahu's dirty tricks.

So, there's no doubt that Netanyahu is despicable. But to say that the Prime Minister of Israel is anti-Semitic? That's just verbal legerdemain that muddies the truth of the seriousness of the anti-refugee and anti-immigrant philosophies of both Orban and Netanyahu.

But of course, if it makes sense to say that Netanyahu is anti-Semitic and even that Israel itself is anti-Semitic, then certainly it must be anti-Semitic to liken Israel to Nazi Germany. The guy who made that comparison, offered to make a charitable donation to Opus Dei if proof could be presented that he had made anti-Semitic statements. Opus Dei is anti-Semitic in many aspects itself, so donating to Opus Dei would be just another act of anti-Semitism. It would be far more appropriate for the donation to be made to the Jewish anti-defamation league.

-Joe Offer-