Gerald Knaus coordinates influential media organizations such as The New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel and The Economist. hirado.hu based on Origo's summary .
An integral part of the international smear campaign against Hungary by the global left-wing networks is that they supply the international left-wing press with fake news. These are coordinated mainly by Gerald Knaus, supported by György Soros, who is the founding president of the European Stability Initiative (ESI), Origo reported in a recent article . Almost the entire liberal media in the world is open to the Austrian man, the Soros have already carried out lobbying activities with him in many parts of the world.
Knaus spread Soros's ideas in several forums
The portal pointed out that the lobby organization promoting the ideals of an open society received significant sums from the stock speculator. According to a 2016 document, ESI received a grant of three thousand euros from Soros' organization. In addition to ESI, Gerald Knaus also spread Soros's ideas in many other forums.
He taught in Ukraine, worked for five years in Bulgaria and Bosnia for various NGOs, lived in Istanbul from 2004, and was a scholarship recipient of the Soros Open Society Foundations from 2007. Later, together with György Soros, he participated in the founding of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).
In addition to György Soros and his son Alexander Soros, the public member list of this organization includes a number of Hungarian left-liberal politicians, including Gordon Bajnai, Ádám Ficsor and Viktor Szigetvári.
He demonized the Hungarian Prime Minister
Gerald Knaus coordinates major international media organizations such as The New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel and The Economist. He typically sets the tone with one speech or statement, which then circulates in the international liberal press.
This machine was really launched against our country during the migration crisis, when Hungary faced Germany's Willkommen campaign and responded to the wave of invasion-like immigration by closing the southern border.
In connection with the quota referendum in October 2016, Knaus already told The Economist that Viktor Orbán carries a unique danger, as he represents a far-right virus for the political center of Europe.
Even before the 2018 election, Gerald Knaus made a series of statements demonizing the Hungarian Prime Minister, for example he told The New York Times that the worst nightmare had come true with the spread of Orbánism. After the left lost the 2018 parliamentary election in Hungary, Knaus tried to prevent the strengthening of the sovereignists in Europe with the help of the international media.
He also attacked Orbán, Salvini and Trump
He wrote in the liberal Die Zeit weekly in December 2018:
The greatest strength of Orbán and Salvini is their ability to tell an exciting story. It is about the survival of European civilization in the context of Islamic-African mass immigration, with traitors, behind-the-scenes movers and brave heroes. This is a mood arc that helped even Donald Trump to victory: here the hypocritical weak, and there the determined, active politicians.
The director of the ESI tried to discredit our country with a distorted interpretation of the Hungarian response to illegal migration. In 2019, public broadcaster ZDF produced a documentary about German Chancellor Angela Merkel's management of the 2015 migration crisis. At the beginning of the one and a half hour film, Gerald Knaus already accused the Hungarian Prime Minister of lack of restraint and believed that Viktor Orbán deliberately played for gruesome pictures to be taken at the Keleti railway station because he could use them for internal propaganda.
Credibility crisis and corruption in the EP
The ECFR usually reports on the corruption cases of individual politicians, but until the outbreak of the scandal, it was deeply silent about the fact that one of its members, Eva Kaili, who holds the position of Vice-President of the European Parliament, is accused of committing various corruption crimes. Instead of a dissociative statement, the ECFR even tried to erase the traces that Kaili had ever been a member, even though the Greek politician stated on several occasions - for example in his resume - that he sits on the board of the organization.
The European Parliament (EP) has been struggling with a crisis of credibility for a long time, and the scandal that broke out a few weeks ago further weakens the authority of the Brussels-based body. According to the indictment, several high-ranking EP officials, including Vice President Eva Kaili, received money from Qatar in exchange for influencing the European Parliament's decisions regarding the Gulf state. Kaili and her three companions were arrested by the Belgian authorities on December 9, while the EP terminated the Greek politician's immunity and stripped her of her position as vice president. Kaili admitted to instructing her father to hide most of the cash found in subsequent searches of her home. The police are conducting an investigation based on allegations of several corruption crimes, and according to their announcement, they have so far seized almost 1.5 million euros in the Brussels region.
The fake paramedic's lies were spread by the international press
The director of ESI did not suspend the series of information attacks against our country even during the coronavirus epidemic. On his social media page, he also shared a Dutch public television report disparaging Hungarian health care, which was about the alleged neglect of patients. The recording in question also featured the partner of Athina Németh, the painter Lilla Szeleczki, who became known as a fake ambulance fraudster, who shared lies about her mother's stay in the hospital. From the film's personal recommendation, it seems that the Dutch reporter is an acquaintance of Knaus.
He misinterpreted Viktor Orbán's words
Knaus also freely interpreted Viktor Orbán's September 2015 speech in Kötcs. In Die Zeit, for example:
"Orbán's September 2015 announcement that the "period of universal human rights" has now ended must also be reflected in the foreign policy of the Union. Putin can be happy. Le Pen too."
In his March 2020 statement to Euronews, Knaus also reinterpreted the words of the Hungarian Prime Minister. At that time, he threatened readers with the horror of Nazism:
"Orbán has been saying for years that the era of universal human rights is just liberal blabber and hypocrisy, and he is talking about invasion in a military sense. He has already accustomed people to the suspension of asylum rights, and now he is using this crisis to implement the final solution (!).
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