Every August 12, on George Soros’s birthday, the international far right celebrates “International Day Against George Soros.”

The event was inaugurated in 2020 by Brazil’s Movimento Brasil Conservador. In the publicity materials, the Jewish billionaire’s face appeared in ghoulish black and white, spattered with bright red blood. Soros, they said, was “responsible for overthrowing governments and destabilizing nations” through his funding of abortion clinics and Black Lives Matter protesters. A petition signed by twenty-five thousand people demanded that his Open Society Foundations be shut down in Brazil.

In recent years, the influence of Soros has been alleged everywhere. Donald Trump credits him with orchestrating protests against the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Benjamin Netanyahu accuses him of spreading anti-Likud propaganda in Israel, and his son Yair alleges he is “destroying Israel from the inside.” Sorin Grindeanu’s administration in Romania blames him for anti-corruption protests. Vladimir Putin blames him for Russian protests. In Hungary, where Soros was born, Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party portray him as the “puppet master” of Muslim migration to Eastern Europe.