Alex Soros Slammed for Condemning DC Murders While Funding Anti-Israel Groups, Critics Say He Helped Fuel the Hate

By: Jerome Brookshire

Alex Soros, the billionaire heir to George Soros’ sprawling philanthropic empire, found himself at the center of a growing firestorm this week after publicly condemning the anti-Semitic murder of two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, D.C., while continuing to fund organizations accused of spreading anti-Israel and anti-Jewish rhetoric through his Open Society Foundations (OSF).

As Fox News Digital has reported, Soros issued a statement on the social media platform X calling the targeted killing of Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky “evil in its most basic form” and demanding that the “brutal anti-Semitic act be condemned in the strongest terms.” Yet his message quickly drew a barrage of backlash from users across the political spectrum, accusing him of hypocrisy and complicity in fostering the ideological climate that may have emboldened the killer.

Milgrim and Lischinsky, a young Israeli couple engaged in diplomatic outreach, were gunned down outside the Capital Jewish Museum late Wednesday evening in what authorities have identified as a targeted anti-Semitic hate crime. D.C. police later arrested 31-year-old Elias Rodriguez, who was allegedly pacing outside the museum before approaching a group of four people and opening fire. According to law enforcement, Rodriguez shouted “Free, free Palestine!” as he was taken into custody — a slogan long associated with radical anti-Zionist and pro-Hamas demonstrations.

Despite Soros’ denunciation of the attack, his social media post was immediately inundated with replies accusing him and his father, George Soros, of enabling the very hatred that culminated in the deadly shooting, as was reported by Fox News Digital.

“Alex, you and your father created this problem through the ruthless and international silencing of critics to open borders policies,” one user, Joseph Janecka, wrote. “Their blood is on your hands as much as their murderers. We will never forget.”

“You are behind the hate, so excuse us if you don’t wish to hear from you on the matter,” added another X user, Carl Wheless.

Eitan Fischberger, an Israeli commentator, claimed that Soros “funds the revolutionary Marxist group the shooter belonged to,” though the precise ideological affiliations of Elias Rodriguez are still under investigation.

What’s not in question, however, is the Soros family’s history of funding and supporting anti-Israel groups through the Open Society Foundations, many of which have openly promoted the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, accused Israel of genocide, and questioned the legitimacy of the Jewish state.

As Fox News Digital previously reported, OSF has allocated tens of millions of dollars to a constellation of organizations with anti-Israel agendas. In 2023, Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Social Equality, Amichai Chikli, told Fox News Digital that Alex Soros “looks like the son is a replica of his father” and that Israel had no expectations that he would be a “big Zionist.”

Chikli highlighted a number of groups funded by OSF, including Human Rights Watch, which he said regularly “attacks Israelis and demonizes Israel as an apartheid state,” and J Street, a group that claims to be pro-Israel but often aligns itself with positions sympathetic to Iran and the Palestinian Authority. “These are not organizations pursuing peace — they’re pursuing Israel’s isolation,” Chikli said.

He also pointed to funding for radical Palestinian NGOs operating inside Israel, including Adalah, an organization that has called Israel a “colonial state” and rejected the nation’s foundational identity as a Jewish homeland. In its published “vision for Arab society in Israel,” Adalah challenges the legitimacy of Zionism and the State of Israel itself — themes echoed by other OSF-funded groups.

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, has been one of George Soros’ most vocal critics on the international stage. In a December 2023 interview with Fox News Digital, Erdan condemned Soros’ funding of NGOs tied to the BDS movement, which seeks to economically and politically isolate Israel.

“George Soros’ donations to organizations that seek the destruction of the State of Israel as a Jewish state is shameful. However, I am not surprised,” Erdan said. “For years, Soros has backed and transferred money to organizations supporting BDS that want to isolate Israel. They have never been about real peace or any solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”

Erdan’s concerns were not abstract. He highlighted how some of the same organizations supported by OSF have also advocated narratives sympathetic to Hamas, despite the group’s status as a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization responsible for murdering Israeli civilians and using Palestinian civilians as human shields.

For critics, the Soros family’s condemnation of anti-Semitic violence — however genuine in sentiment — rings hollow when juxtaposed with their funding history. To denounce the murder of two Israeli citizens on American soil while continuing to bankroll entities that deny Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state is, as many see it, a dangerous form of doublethink.

“What’s happening here is not just moral dissonance. It’s institutionalized hypocrisy,” said a former Israeli diplomat who asked not to be named. “You can’t cry crocodile tears over the consequences of an ideology you helped mainstream.”

The problem, Fox News Digital has consistently highlighted, is that funding anti-Zionist organizations — especially ones that frame Israel as a colonial oppressor or an apartheid regime — creates fertile ground for extremism. This rhetoric, critics argue, lays the psychological and moral groundwork for violence, even when it doesn’t directly incite it.

Alex Soros’ rise to prominence within the Open Society Foundations has been marked by continuity rather than departure from his father’s worldview. While he occasionally attempts to strike a more centrist tone, particularly on American political issues, his foreign policy leanings — especially on Israel — have remained closely aligned with the elder Soros’ controversial record.

Though Soros’ defenders argue that the OSF promotes human rights globally and that criticism of Israeli policy should not be conflated with anti-Semitism, the sharp rise in anti-Semitic incidents worldwide — and particularly in progressive circles — has cast doubt on that distinction.

As the investigation into the D.C. shooting continues, one thing is clear: public scrutiny over philanthropic funding that supports anti-Israel agendas is intensifying.

For Alex Soros, a single tweet condemning a tragedy was never going to suffice. As the Fox News Digital report indicated, his actions — and his checkbook — speak far louder than his words.