Democrats knock Johnson for suggesting George Soros behind campus protests
Jewish Democrats are admonishing Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) this week after the Republican leader suggested George Soros is behind the pro-Palestinian protests roiling colleges campuses across the country. The Democrats — many of them highly critical of the anti-Israel demonstrations, which they say cross a line into antisemitism — are accusing Johnson of that same offense for elevating unfounded theories that Soros, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, is funding the student protest