The Anti-Defamation League's Abe Foxman said in a statement sent to Salon today that he still believes Fox host Glenn Beck "is a strong supporter of Israel and the Jewish people," even in the wake of a week of conspiratorial attacks on George Soros that some saw as anti-Semitic.
"But I also believe that there are certain things he doesn't understand, which have led him to make insensitive remarks," Foxman continued.
Foxman had criticized Beck this week on fairly narrow grounds -- that the Fox host went too far when he (falsely) accused Soros, who as a boy survived the Holocaust by posing as a Christian, of helping send Jews to the death camps. Beck also called Soros a "puppet master" who, he claimed, was personally responsible for many of the catastrophes of the 20th century and who is now setting his sights on America.