Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Ran a “puppet-master” poster campaign against George Soros.
What happened
A government campaign of billboards and ads depicting Hungarian-Jewish financier George Soros as a grinning puppet-master “laughing” at Hungarians — widely read as trafficking in the hidden-Jewish-power trope.
Under each definition
Example 2: the Soros “puppet-master” imagery is the hidden-Jewish-power conspiracy.
Guideline 4: the Rothschild→Soros coded trope, named directly.
Conspiratorial antisemitism; Orbán’s pro-Israel alignment doesn’t change the content.
Not criticism of Israel — if anything, the opposite.
Who called it antisemitic
Hungary’s Jewish community (Mazsihisz), the World Jewish Congress, the Israeli ambassador, and the ADL.
The defense
Orbán denied antisemitism, pointing to close ties with Israel’s government and to security at home; he framed the campaign as about migration policy, not Jews.
Outcome
International condemnation; the campaigns continued and became a template copied by politicians elsewhere.
In their words
The billboard campaign, while not openly anti-Semitic, can still very much unleash uncontrolled anti-Semitic and other feelings. This poisonous message hurts all of Hungary.
At the moment, beyond political criticism of a certain person, the campaign not only evokes sad memories but also sows hatred and fear.
This matter is not about George Soros’ ancestry or identity but about what he does.
The verdicts above are how each framework would most likely treat this case — illustrative guidance, not official rulings. The 3D test applies only to Israel-related cases, so it reads “N/A” elsewhere. See the Definition tab for each framework’s full text. Inclusion is documentation, not a finding.