House of the Rising Son: Alexander Soros takes control of his father’s $25 billion funding empire.

New York hedge fund manager George Soros has long been one of the most politically powerful individuals on earth. Since the mid-1980s in particular, he has used his immense influence to help reconfigure the political landscapes of several countries around the world—in some cases playing a key role in toppling regimes that had held the reins of government power for years, even decades. Vis à vis the United States, a strong case can be made for the claim that Soros has affected American politics and culture more profoundly that any other person in living memory. Armed with a multi-billion-dollar personal fortune, he has cast himself as a missionary with a semi-divine mandate to transform the world and its institutions into something which he deems better—by promoting all manner of leftwing values and political agendas.

But George Soros is 93 years old, and he understands that it’s now time for him to pass the baton of his crusade for radical leftism to someone younger. Hence, a couple of months ago he officially named his 38-year-old son, Alexander Soros, as board chairman of the Open Society Foundations (OSF), the $25 billion philanthropic empire through which the elder Soros has funded the Left for decades. “We think alike,” said George Soros when discussing Alexander’s prospects as his successor. Alexander, meanwhile, told The Wall Street Journal that he considers himself to be an even “more political” person than his father. Thus, his ascent to the top of the OSF hierarchy suddenly makes him one of the most consequential human beings anywhere on the planet. Let us examine, then, exactly who Alexander Soros is.

Background

Alexander “Alex” Soros was born in 1985 to the famous leftwing financier George Soros, who was then 55 years old, and the latter’s second wife, historian Susan Webner.

The fourth of five children from George Soros’ first two marriages, Alex was raised in a 14-room house on an estate in upscale Katonah, New York. The family also owned a duplex apartment in Manhattan. From pre-K through grade 12, Alex attended King Low Heywood Thomas, an elite private school located in Stamford, Connecticut.

Alex and his younger brother Gregory rarely saw their father when they were children. A 2012 New York Times profile quoted Alex saying, “I was very angry at him [the father], I felt unwanted. He had a very hard time communicating love, and he was never really around.” “He was there, but he wasn’t there,” Alex said on another occasion. “He was thinking about [financial] markets the whole time.” Most of Alex’s childhood days were spent under the supervision of a Chinese immigrant nanny named Ping.

At a young age, Alex was introduced, through his father, to figures like Hillary Clinton, Nelson Mandela, and Bono. He claims that he began to engage with his father more during his teenage years, in conversations that sometimes included debates about the merits of Karl Marx’s ideas. In particular, the boy grew closer to his father after his mother filed for divorce in 2004, when Alex was a freshman at New York University (NYU). “In a way, he [George Soros] took fathering more seriously after the divorce,” the son recalls.

Between 2004 and 2006, Alex worked part time at his father’s Open Society Institute, later renamed the Open Society Foundations (OSF), which has long been one of the world’s leading funders of leftwing groups and causes.

Alex graduated from NYU with a BA degree in history in 2009, before later obtaining both an MA and PhD in history from UC Berkeley in 2018. He also served stints as: (a) a post-doctoral fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities at Bard College, a school whose activities and programs had already been bankrolled by his father for a number of years; (b) an honorary fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University in Budapest, an institution founded by his father in 1991; and (c) a visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, a nonprofit educational institute whose relationship with George Soros, who was one of its board members, dated back to at least 1989.

In his young adulthood, Alex was best known for his high-profile social life. As a Daily Mail headline once put it: “Gorgeous models, NBA pals and hide-and-seek at his mansion: Welcome to the lavish life of investor George Soros’ playboy son.” Indeed, he garnered much media attention simply for attending extravagant parties with celebrities in places like the Hamptons and Cannes.

A New Sense of Purpose

When he reached his early to mid-twenties, Alex Soros resolved to bolster his credibility and become known for something other than hobnobbing with celebrities. Toward that end, he traveled, on his own initiative, to remote parts of the Amazon rainforest to meet with indigenous leaders for the purpose of drawing public attention to their needs.

Rising New Philanthropist for the Democratic Left

Soros began to make a name for himself as a philanthropist in 2010, when he contributed nearly $74,000 to Democrat candidates during that year’s midterm election cycle. At the time, he stated that America “will be better off if Democrats keep control” (of the U.S. House and Senate). He especially took issue with Republicans’ “extreme” rhetoric on social issues, stating: “I am the son of a Hungarian Jew who survived the Nazis … my politics are shaped by my family history and being Jewish. I was raised to sympathize with other minorities and targets of bigotry.” Asserting further that the then-ascendant Tea Party movement was “a movement of intolerance,” Soros articulated his hope that “my donations will help combat this intolerance.” He also noted that he felt an inner sense of “conflict” about contributing large sums of money to political campaigns as a matter of principle, stating: “I do not believe that elections should be privately financed. Ultimately, that’s incompatible with democratic principles.” “I detest the idea that money is speech,” he would elaborate in 2012, “but if the other side is going to do it, you have to do it.”

In 2011, Soros joined the OSF board of directors. Initially, however, he was scarcely noticed in that role. “Alex used to come to board meetings, but he hardly spoke,” recalls former OSF president Aryeh Neier.

Also in 2011, Soros and his younger brother Gregory collaborated to launch the Soros Brothers Investments firm, where Alex served as a managing partner.

In 2011 as well, Alex Soros joined the board of Global Witness (GW), an organization dedicated to exposing human-rights abuses by mining companies and governments around the world. In its self-description, GW says: “We want justice for those disproportionately affected by the climate crisis: people in the global south, indigenous communities and communities of colour, women and younger generations. We want corporations to respect the planet and human rights, governments to protect and listen to their citizens, and the online world to be free from misinformation and hate.”

While still a graduate student at UC Berkeley, Soros in April 2012 launched an eponymous philanthropy called the Alexander Soros Foundation (ASF). His objective was to fund “more experimental and perhaps controversial projects that larger mainstream foundations might not be able to take on.” As InfluenceWatch.org reports, ASF’s “stated mission is to promote social justice and human rights, though its grants also focus on environmentalism, education, cultural causes, and more.” In July 2012, Soros told The Wall Street Journal: “I don’t want to become a full-time philanthropist, because I don’t think it is a job, per se. I think it is something one should do—a responsibility.”

Shortly after its launch, ASF awarded grants to the National Domestic Workers Alliance and Make the Road New York, both of which support increased levels of immigration to the United States, as well as amnesty for illegal aliens currently residing there.

In 2012, Soros contributed slightly more than $400,000 to Democratic campaigns and political action committees during that year’s election cycle.

During the 2014 election season, Soros matched his 2012 output by donating yet another $400,000 to Democratic campaigns and PACs.

In April 2015, Politico reported that Soros had poured $1.2 million into the preceding three election cycles, including support for Friends of Democracy, “a super PAC started by his half-brother Jonathan Soros, who has focused his political efforts on getting money out of politics.”

In August 2015, Soros attended a Hollywood fundraiser for presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, an event that featured the presence of luminaries like Tom Hanks, Kanye West, and Kim Kardashian.

In 2015 as well, Soros took a full-time role with OSF. “He worked with George’s longtime adviser, Michael Vachon, and others, to hone his public speaking and political skills,” reports The Wall Street Journal. “He emerged as his father’s deputy.”

In a January 2016 interview with Forbes magazine, Soros publicly identified himself as “an avid supporter of many progressive politicians, including Gavin Newsom, who is running for Governor of California in 2018, Tammy Duckworth, who is running for Senator in the state of Illinois in 2016 election cycle, and Hillary Clinton.”

By May 2016, Soros had contributed $1 million to the pro-Clinton political action committee, Priorities USA.

In August 2016, Soros took to Instagram to post a photo of himself and Democrat vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine after an exclusive dinner that the two had shared. “Love this man!” read the post. “Was great to have dinner with a man we need to call one day #vicepresident@timkaine last night! He is definitely the real deal! #clintonkaine2016#strongertogether.” As noted by Breitbart News, Soros’ Instagram account, by that point in time, had also featured photos of Soros alongside such high-profile Democrats as Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Valerie Jarrett, Cecile Richards, Al Franken, Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Keith Ellison.

During the 2016 election season, Soros donated more than $4.5 million to Democratic campaign committees and political action committees. The leading recipient of his largesse was the Senate Majority PAC, a political action committee associated with Senator Chuck Schumer, which took in $3.5 million from Soros between August and November of that year. Soros also gave $1 million to Priorities USA Action, $127,800 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and $133,400 to the Democratic National Committee Services Corporation. Among the individuals whose campaigns Soros supported with the $5,400 maximum contributions allowable by law were Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, Russ Feingold, and Keith Ellison.

In 2017, Soros donated $650,000 to Democratic causes. This included the legal maximum of $33,900 to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in April, plus contributions to such notable Democrats as congressional candidate Jon Ossoff (Georgia) and Senators Claire McCaskill (Missouri), Jon Tester (Montana), Maria Cantwell (Washington), and Chris Murphy (Connecticut). And during the 2017 gubernatorial primary campaign in Virginia, Soros donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrat Tom Perriello. who ultimately was trounced in the primary race by establishment-backed Ralph Northam.

Also in 2017, Soros gave $500,000 to the International Crisis Group, on whose board of directors he sat.

As of 2017 as well, Soros was also an active board member with the Open Society Foundations, Bend the Arc Jewish Action PAC, Global Witness, Libraries Without Borders, Central European University, and the Gordon Parks Foundation. In addition, he was a trustee with the Alexander Soros Foundation.

In early 2018, Soros donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to support Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum, a Democrat who ultimately was defeated by Republican Ron DeSantis and was later arrested for a drug-fueled encounter with a homosexual male prostitute.

By September 2018, Soros had contributed almost $3 million to Democratic committees during that year’s midterm election cycle. This included a $100,000 donation to an independent expenditure committee supporting Rep. Keith Ellison‘s bid to become attorney general of Minnesota – nearly half of all the money raised by that committee.

In June 2019, Soros was among 19 liberal-left philanthropists to publicly endorse the imposition of “a moderate wealth tax on the fortunes of the richest 1/10 of the richest 1% of Americans.”

On October 21, 2019, Soros hosted a dinner event in his own home to benefit the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC), which sought to redraw America’s nationwide election map in a manner that would benefit Democrats at the polls. The three featured guests at this event were NDRC chairman Eric Holder, former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, and former President Barack Obama.

During the 2020 presidential election season, Soros gave $700,000 to the Biden Victory Fund in support of Joe Biden’s White House bid.

In September 2021, Soros and his father spent time with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. On September 9, Alex Soros tweeted a photo of the three of them smiling together, with a caption that read: “In Pelosi we trust! Was good seeing @SpeakerPelosi this weekend.”

In 2022, Soros was named president of Democracy PAC, which had served as his father’s major campaign-spending vehicle since 2019. Among other things, this political action committee had backed the election campaigns of numerous district attorneys and law-enforcement officials who viewed the criminal justice system as inherently racist and therefore sought to reduce the incarceration rates of nonwhite minorities. All told, the PAC had funneled more than $80 million to Democratic organizations and candidates during the 2020 election cycle, and was re-seeded with an additional infusion of $125 million by George Soros in January 2022 – money that would be used to help Democrats in the midterm elections later that year.

In December 2022, Soros attended a state dinner for French President Emmanuel Macron at the Biden White House.

From 2018 through March 2023, Soros gave approximately $5.7 million to left-leaning political action committees and Democratic campaigns. Also during that same period, he met at least 9 times with Chuck Schumer (who served some of that time as Senate Majority Leader), and at least 8 times with Nancy Pelosi (who served some of that time as House Speaker). Further, Soros contributed a combined total of more than $130,000 to Pelosi’s congressional campaign and to a Super PAC victory fund associated with Pelosi.

By early July 2023, Soros had visited the Biden White House at least 20 times since the new administration was installed in January 2021. Among the officials with whom Soros had met were Madeline Strasser and Nina Srivastava (advisors to White House chief of staff Ron Klain); Hazel Castillo (National Security Council staff assistant); Mariana Adame (advisor to Steve Ricchetti, counselor to President Biden); Kimberly Lang (national security advisor); Jonathan Finer (deputy national security advisor); and Amanda Sloat, the National Security Council’s senior director for Europe.

Soros’ Views on Israel, the Jewish People, & Anti-Semitism

In a July 2012 interview with Philanthropy News Digest, Soros articulated his thoughts regarding the American Jewish community’s perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:

“When it comes to Israel and Palestine, I believe in consistency. If there’s one problem I have with the American Jewish community, it’s that it is at times rather inconsistent on the subject. I think that Jews have supported progressive causes because of the better part of their nature and that’s a great legacy; it’s really a part of Jewish exceptionalism. But I worry when Jews in America start to support policies in Israel which they wouldn’t support in America, which don’t allow for separation of church and state, which don’t give full rights to people who are technically living under occupation, and which don’t allow for immigration of people who aren’t Jews, or for non-Jews to become citizens. This is a problem because it gives credence to the old adage that Jews are liberal or left-wing only for their own self-interest; that they want a color-blind society with all these different ethnic groups because it makes them safer. So I think that whether you keep your values consistent is a true test. A lot of Americans Jews do support one thing here and another thing there, and that’s inconsistent.”

In 2012 as well, Soros:

donated at least $200,000 to the Jewish Council for Education and Research, a leftwing super PAC that strongly supported both of Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns
was one of the nation’s top donors to J Street, a Jewish organization highly critical of Israel’s dealings with the Palestinians and Hamas terrorists

In an April 2018 interview with the Israeli news outlet Ynetnews, Soros charged that conservative criticisms directed against his father were largely motivated by Jew-hatred:

“Since I was a child, I realized that—beyond all political reasons—the attacks against my father have an anti-Semitic tone. I read what they said about him in Hungary. They described him as the creator of an international Jewish plot. All the Elders of Zion and the Protocols in one man, in my father. They asked how dare this man come to central and Eastern European countries and dictate norms to them; who is this immigrant fighting against the discrimination of Muslims in America. They stepped up the attacks on him because they saw how influential he was.”

In the same interview:

Soros asserted that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “ties with radical right-wing, anti-Semitic and corrupt elements contradicts Israel’s commitment as a Jewish state.”
When asked whether some of the money that he had donated to J Street might possibly have been used to support the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions movement, Soros answered: “In my opinion, the call for boycott and divestment of Israel is wrong. This movement is trying to follow in the footsteps of the South African precedent. Israel is a different story. I believe the occupation is bad, but we can’t hold every Israeli accountable for the occupation.”

On July 31, 2020, Soros authored a piece for NBCnews.com about his family’s “fight to eradicate systemic racism in America” in the face of what he portrayed as widespread anti-Semitic opposition. Some key excerpts:

“The senseless killings of George Floyd and countless other Black Americans while in police custody have sparked the largest and most diverse mass protests in the history of the United States. You might think everyone would now be focusing on how to fix a system that has mercilessly subjugated, brutalized and killed Black and brown people in this country. But you would be wrong.

“Instead of trying to come together and figure out how America can live up to its promise of equality for all, too many people prefer to stoke the flames of anti-Semitism. The wave of outrage over systemic racism has provoked anti-Semitic accusations that Jews — specifically my father, George Soros — are organizing the protests behind the scenes. […]

“Blaming Jews for mass civil rights movements is a textbook white supremacy tactic that has been around for longer than anyone reading this article has been alive. The logic is simple: Those who promote these lies want you to believe that Black and brown people are not smart or strategic enough to organize such actions themselves, so Jews must be pulling the strings.

“This construct also ties into the abhorrent ‘replacement’ conspiracy theory that flourishes in the darker corners of the internet, such as on 4chan, Gab and Reddit’s now-suspended The Donald subreddit: Evil Jewish financiers want to somehow replace white people with supposedly more pliant people of color.

“This despicably racist online poison uses ideas and imagery that are directly drawn from the anti-Jewish propaganda of Nazi Germany — although the ‘replacement’ theory remains a distinctly American manifestation of white supremacy.”

Bend The Arc

In anticipation of the pivotal 2016 elections in the United States, Soros in April 2015 co-founded and became chairman of Bend The Arc Jewish Action PAC, a political action committee “focused on representing the views of Jewish Americans” on domestic policy issues like immigration, sexuality, and social change of a leftwing variety. “There’s an opportunity to launch something that actually speaks to what the American Jewish community cares the most about and to show the narrative of what the real American Jewish experience is,” Soros stated at the time. (The Bend The Arc Jewish Action PAC is affiliated with Bend The Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice (BTA), an organization that grew out of the June 2011 merger of the California-based Progressive Jewish Alliance and the New York-based Jewish Funds for Justice.)

Contempt for Donald Trump

Soros was deeply upset by Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election of 2016. “When Trump was elected,” said Soros in April 2018, “I wasn’t surprised—I was sad. Since Trump’s election, I have been waking up every morning and saying to myself, the world is in danger. I have to do whatever I can to prevent that danger.”

Later in 2018, reports emerged that packages containing pipe bombs had been shipped to prominent Democrats like George Soros and former President Barack Obama. Blaming President Trump for having created a political atmosphere in which such potentially destructive acts could take place, Alex Soros wrote an October 2018 op-ed in The New York Times claiming that this “profoundly disturbing” development was a manifestation of “the new normal of political demonization that plagues us today.” Characterizing Trump as someone who sought to foment “division and hate,” Soros added: “We must find our way to a new political discourse that shuns the demonization of all political opponents. A first step would be to cast our ballots to reject those politicians cynically responsible for undermining the institutions of our democracy. And we must do it now, before it is too late.”

In the same op-ed piece, Soros again suggested that opposition to the work of his father and the Open Society Foundations was rooted in a breed of “anti-Semitism” promoted and fostered by Trump:

“[S]omething changed in 2016. Before that, the vitriol he faced was largely confined to the extremist fringes, among white supremacists and nationalists who sought to undermine the very foundations of democracy.

“But with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, things got worse. White supremacists and anti-Semites like David Duke endorsed his campaign. Mr. Trump’s final TV ad famously featured my father; Janet Yellen, chairwoman of the Federal Reserve; and Lloyd Blankfein, chairman of Goldman Sachs — all of them Jewish — amid dog-whistle language about ‘special interests’ and ‘global special interests.’ A genie was let out of the bottle, which may take generations to put back in, and it wasn’t confined to the United States.”

Supporter of Joe Biden for President

On July 3, 2020, Soros touted the many benefits that he believed America would reap if Joe Biden were to be elected president that November:

“While European pundits are correct to doubt that the old transatlantic alliance will simply return to its pre-Trump state, they are underestimating what a Biden victory would mean for US foreign policy. The Democratic Party is still a party of values, and a Biden administration would pursue a full reset after four years of Trump, restoring America’s historic commitment to responsible leadership on the world stage.

“Whereas Trump has spent his time in office starting fights with Europe over climate change, trade, and human rights, Biden would bring America back to the diplomatic table. The United States would rejoin the Paris climate agreement, pursue new trade deals, and participate in cooperative efforts to ensure that technological innovation conforms with human-rights standards.

“In the European Union, America’s image is at an all-time low, thanks to the Trump administration’s slow, incoherent, and ineffective response to the covid-19 crisis, a major part of which comprised blaming other countries, rather than cooperating with them. Instead of combating the crisis using the resources of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and other multilateral organisations, the US banned travel from Europe without warning and announced it would defund the WHO. One of Biden’s first foreign-policy objectives would surely be to rectify this and to treat covid-19 as the global crisis it is. That means leveraging international cooperation to protect Americans from the pandemic (and its attendant economic devastation), as well as leading global efforts to combat the threat.

“With Biden in the White House, European telecoms firms such as Nokia and Ericsson would be recognised and supported as the transatlantic alliance’s 5G champions, and the US would help Europe wean itself off Russian gas as it worked on a clean-energy transition. A Biden administration would also recognise the wisdom of negotiating a renewal of the New START nuclear-weapons agreement with Russia when it expires in 2021. And it would pursue other forms of arms control to advance European and US security interests and prevent a new arms race.”

Combating America’s “Systemic Racism” and Supporting the “Black Lives Matter” Movement

On July 13, 2020 — seven weeks after the infamous May 25 death of George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis — the Open Society Foundations announced their intent to advance the cause of “racial justice” by channeling $220 million toward the mission of “merging organizations and leaders building power in Black communities across the country.” “This is the time for urgent and bold action to address racial injustice in America,” said Alex Soros. “These investments will empower proven leaders in the Black community to reimagine policing, end mass incarceration, and eliminate the barriers to opportunity that have been the source of inequity for too long.”

On July 31, 2020, Soros authored a piece for NBCnews.com titled “My Father, George Soros, Is White Supremacists’ Favorite Target. But They Won’t Stop Us.” Some key excerpts:

“The hatred, which is ripping apart the fabric of this country, does not deter my father or me…. [F]or us, the surge in online attacks on my father and me in the wake of the renewed energy around the Black Lives Matter movement is simply one more installment of a long, ugly story — the predictable reaction of those whose power and position are threatened by the demands of justice.

“And we are not stopping. Earlier this month, our Open Society Foundations announced a $220 million commitment to help achieve racial equality in America, building on our existing work with groups engaged on issues including voting rights, education, drug policy reform and ending the blight of mass incarceration of Black Americans.

“We will continue to fight to eradicate systemic racism in America. And we will never stop fighting the bigotry of those who sow discord, spread lies and engage in hateful, anti-Semitic rhetoric.”

Conclusion

Alexander Soros is the new leader of the $25 billion philanthropy that, at the direction of his father, has done more in recent decades to fund leftwing organizations than virtually any other entity on earth. Among the most significant of those beneficiaries are organizations that:

accuse America of routinely violating the civil rights and liberties of racial and ethnic minorities
depict the U.S. as a nation whose enduring racism must be counterbalanced by racial and ethnic preferences in favor of nonwhites
portray the American criminal-justice system as racist and inequitable
call for the recruitment and training of activist leaders to help foment massive social change
disparage capitalism while promoting a dramatic expansion of social-welfare programs funded by ever-escalating taxes
support socialized medicine in the United States
strive to move American politics to the left by promoting the election of radical political candidates
promote leftist ideals and worldviews in the media and the arts
seek to inject the American judicial system with leftist values
advance leftist agendas by infiltrating churches and religious congregations
promote open borders, mass migration, a watering down of existing immigration laws, increased rights and benefits for illegal aliens, and ultimately amnesty for all illegals
depict virtually all American military actions as unwarranted and immoral
advocate America’s unilateral disarmament and/or a steep reduction in its military spending
promote radical environmentalism
oppose the death penalty in all circumstances
promote women’s right to taxpayer-funded abortion on demand
favor global government which would bring American foreign policy under the control of the United Nations or other international bodies
support drug legalization
pressure mortgage lenders to make loans to undercapitalized borrowers, a practice that helped spark the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008
exhort the U.S. and Israel to negotiate with, and to make concessions to, Arab terrorist groups and regimes that have pledged to destroy America and Israel alike:

George Soros already has proudly told us that he and his son “think alike.” Thus, there is every reason to expect that Alexander will dutifully follow in the cataclysmically destructive footsteps of his father.

House of the Rising Son: Alexander Soros takes control of his father’s $25 billion funding empire.

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