Within hours after a gunman who according to CNN told police, "I just want to kill Jews," opened fire in a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, synagogue during a Saturday prayer service, killing 11 people, Fox Business News host Lou Hobbs aired a segment that appeared to endorse one of the same anti-Semitic conspiracy theories espoused by the accused synagogue mass killer on his social media accounts.
The Dobbs segment was a rerun of one he aired two days earlier, in which the 73-year-old longtime Fox host interviewed Chris Farrell, of the right-wing group Judicial Watch, in which the two discussed a migrant caravan from Central America that Donald Trump has attempted to make a major issue leading up to the November 6 midterm elections, as Politico has noted.
In the segment, first noticed by Josh Marshall, editor of the political site Talking Points Memo, Farrell with Dobbs seeming approval, claimed the migrant caravan was by organized and funded by the "Soros-occupied State Depertment," reference to billionaire philanthropist George Soros, who is Jewish, and who has donated to many liberal causes and candidates.
The claim the Soros is at the center of a left-wing conspiracy is common among Republicans and right-wing groups such as Judicial Watch, but as The Washington Post has explained, conspiracy theories about Soros appear in fact to serve as substitutes for conspiracy theories about Jewish people in general.
