The BBC is to screen a documentary on Sunday night investigating how the Hungarian-born Jewish financier George Soros became a hate figure for the hard right.
The programme will look not only at the Hungarian government’s campaign against him, widely condemned as antisemitic, but also at the bizarre conspiracy theories that have increasingly circulated about him in the USA.
Mr Soros, 89, who studied at the LSE after the Second World War before moving to the States, has used most of an estimated £30 billion fortune for his Open Society Foundations, promoting democracy, education and human rights across the world.
According to Conspiracy Files: the Billionaire Global Mastermind? – which airs on BBC2 at 9pm tonight – some in the American far-right have accused him of instigating the clashes between neo-Nazis and anti-racist demonstrators in Charlottesville two years ago in order to discredit American President Donald Trump.
