This is admittedly a convoluted and strange tale but we'll try to make it as uncomplicated as possible.
Yair Netanyahu is the son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He posted an image on his Facebook page Saturday that was laden with anti-Semitic imagery and which seemed to suggest a conspiracy behind his family’s growing legal problems. At the head of the conspiracy is none other than George Soros. Here is the seminal meme. A picture of George Soros appeared in Yair Netanyahu’s adaptation, to the left of the reptilian and that’s posted below with David Duke’s tweet.
The idea of the meme above is that the reptilians are running the Masons (the fellow with the eye in the triangle on his forehead) and they in turn are running the Jews who are running the Americans. In Netanyahu’s adaptation billionaire George Soros appears at the left, thereby putting him at the head “of the food chain.” Then David Duke got into the picture:
Needless to say, charges of anti-Semitism, juxtiposed with just plain silliness, began to fly. Haaretz:
Like most memes, it is impossible to determine who originally created it. In one instance, it was posted by a white supremacist named John de Nugent with the title "Illuminatus Jew Dumb American Burger" in its URL.
The Southern Poverty Law Center describes de Nugent as "a prolific writer who has worked with numerous hate groups including the neo-Nazi National Alliance and the Holocaust-denying Barnes Review. De Nugent has run for elected office, and has even vowed to one day become president. While maintaining racist views about numerous racial and ethnic groups, de Nugent is particularly anti-Semitic, believing that the Jews are, along with nefarious space aliens, intent on exterminating the Aryan race."
After Haaretz published a report about his meme, Yair Netanyahu dismissed the claim that he is anti-Semitic and accused the newspaper of being exactly that.
Netanyahu took down the Facebook post but the damage was already done. Washington Post:
“It’s a particularly sad day for Israel when a caricature endorsed by the head of the KKK emerges from the home of the prime minister of the Jewish state,” wrote recently elected Labor leader Avi Gabbay on Twitter.
"Every Jew should feel a sense of shame that a Der Stürmer-style cartoon has come out of the Israeli Prime Minister’s residence and was embraced by one of the great anti-Semites. Erase, apologize and condemn!" opposition chairman Isaac Herzog wrote on Twitter.
“This post was not put up by mistake, this is in keeping with the views of his father,” activist Eldad Yaniv told The Washington Post. “He wants to set Israeli society on fire, pitching people against each other, so he can hide the suspicions that are against him."
Here’s the bottom line from David Duke: