The Hungarian government has launched a massive public relations campaign against billionaire George Soros for his stance on immigration. The campaign is the latest attempt by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to maintain his popularity in the country, despite the European Union's treatment of Hungary as a reactionary pariah. The Hungarian government accuses Hungarian-born Soros of encouraging illegal immigration--in particular, posing a "national security risk" for wanting to settle hundreds of thousands of Middle Eastern immigrants in Hungary. The government has placed billboards and posters in large Hungarian cities with the slogan "Let's not allow Soros to have the last laugh!" In response, a spokesman for Soros accused the Hungarian government of anti-Semitism (since Soros is Jewish and fled with his family before the Nazis occupied the nation). But Soros is not popular with the Israeli government either. Although Yossi Amrani, Israel's ambassador to Hungary, has criticized the anti-Soros campaign, warning that it "sows hatred and fear" and recalls Hungary's role in the Holocaust, Israel's foreign ministry has offered its own clarification of the ambassador's comment, saying:

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