The Anti-Defamation League, which just last month honored News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch with its International Leadership Award, has issued a statement criticizing Fox host Glenn Beck for his false claim that Holocaust survivor George Soros was during World War II "a Jewish boy helping send the Jews to the death camps."
Soros survived the Holocaust by posing as a Christian in his birth country of Hungary, where, as a teenager, he accompanied his godfather, an official in Hungary's Ministry of Agriculture, while he was confiscating Jewish property.
Foxman called Beck's remark, made on his radio show Wednesday, "completely inappropriate, offensive and over the top."
Beck has been attacking Soros all week as part of a series called "The Puppet Master?" which has blamed Soros personally for most of the world's problems in the past half-century. Writing in the Daily Beast, Michelle Goldberg called Beck's Soros documentary "a symphony of anti-Semitic dog-whistles."