Haaretz, Jan. 26, 2023
“MCC has been tapped by the Orban government to be a key forum for shaping a new conservative elite,”
The Israeli media is controlled by radical leftists disconnected from the political mainstream, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son Yair told attendees at a media conference in Budapest on Wednesday at a college considered close to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party.
“The curtain has risen and everyone already knows what is going on here,” the younger Netanyahu told the gathering of conservative media figures and academics at the three-day conference at Mathias Corvinus Collegium on “The Future of Publishing.”
The proliferation of online platforms has made it harder to brainwash people and easier to identify propaganda, he said, according to Hungarian media reports, describing what he called a “democratization” of the media. He went on to explain that much of the media in Israel is dominated by radical leftists who make up less than 10 percent of the electorate.
On Thursday, at another conference event, Netanyahu slammed the “global elite” and declared that “‘Sorosization'” (referring to the ongoing campaign by Hungary’s Orban government against philanthropist George Soros) is not antisemitism, because of the serious damage Soros has cause to “the only Jewish state,” by funding what he termed as anti-Jewish, anti-Zionist and pro-Palestinian NGOs that destroy Israeli society from within. … [To read the full article, click here]