George Soros Revealed

I, and others, have wondered how George Soros, a Jew, could be so hostile to Judaism and, more precisely, to Israel.  Today, an article by Michael Steinberger, in the New York Times, 7/22/18  makes this clear.  His searing experiences under Nazi occupation lead him to believe it was all a matter of tribalism.

The Nazis were a tribe.  The Jews were a tribe.  And, presumably the Poles, the French, and so forth were all tribes.  To  improve conditions in the world, one of his first goals was to eliminate tribalism.
If he could do that, he figured he'd be moving the world a giant step forward toward in the ways of democracy.  (Not mentioned in this article was the fact that Soros's father was a strong proponent of Esperanto.  He believed if the world learned to speak one common language, we'd all get along much better.)

What George Soros seems not to understand is that what he refers to as tribalism can also be described to as culture.   These are the mannerisms and the ways of thinking we share with our fellow citizens.  Unfortunately, not everything in a culture is positive.  We must constantly strive to improve our individual cultures.  But, that's far more doable than scrubbing away and eliminating our individual cultures.