This time, Glenn Beck has managed to outdo even himself.� Finally, can we say enough is enough?

Recently, the Fox News host made some unacceptable comments about George Soros, the Hungarian-American philanthropist and Holocaust survivor.� On his radio show, Beck claimed that Soros� who as a 13-year-old boy was separated from his parents in Nazi-occupied Hungary� �used to go around with this anti-Semite and deliver papers to the Jews and confiscate their property and then ship them off. � It was frightening. Here's a Jewish boy helping send the Jews to the death camps.��

In order to escape the Nazi death camps, Soros posed as a Christian, and was taken in by the Baumbachs, a righteous Gentile family.� His adopted father was ordered to take the inventory of Mor Kornfeld, a wealthy Jewish aristocrat who had since left for Lisbon with his family.� Rather than leave the boy behind in Budapest for three days, Baumbach took Soros with him to the Kornfeld estate.�

Those who monitor Beck on a regular basis know that his rants are consistently offensive and over the top.� He crafts conspiracy theories involving left-leaning figures such as Soros, whom Beck has dubbed the �progressive puppet master.�� He vilifies people such as Nancy Pelosi and Van Jones, and progressive groups such as the Tides Foundation and ACLU.� Beck has compared people such as Simon Greer, executive director of Jewish Funds For Justice, to the Nazis.� Beck equates social justice with communism and, no surprise, Nazism.� And apparently Beck�s rhetoric has inspired some of his viewers, perhaps even more unstable and unhinged than he, to threaten public officials and conspire to commit acts of violence against Beck�s targets, including murder.

Without question, Beck has a Nazi fetish.� As Dana Milbank of the Washington Post noted, from the time of Obama�s inauguration through June of this year, Beck mentioned Nazi or Nazism 202 times, fascism or fascist 193 times, Hitler 147 times, and Joseph Goebbels 24 times.� Not unlike the virulently homophobic politician or pastor who is caught with a male escort, perhaps Beck�s obsession with Nazis reflects a hypocritical admiration for them.� After all, he has hosted white supremacists, secessionists and defenders of slavery on his program.� On his Twitter page, he listed a white supremacist website as among his favorites.

Beck�s latest hit job on George Soros is classic anti-Semitism, and is disturbing for a number of reasons.� For one, he chose the 72nd anniversary of Kristallnacht�the infamous pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany�to make his comments.� During Kristallnacht, which means �Night of Broken Glass,� mobs of storm trooper thugs destroyed 7,000 Jewish businesses, burned over 900 synagogues to the ground, and murdered 91 Jews.� 30,000 Jewish men were shipped to concentration camps.� Announced by Nazi Propaganda Minister Goebbels, this pogrom laid the groundwork for Germany�s decision to remove Jews from public life.

Further, Beck�s depiction of Soros as an enabler of Nazi murder represents a classic example of anti-Semitism and Holocaust revisionism.� And the �puppet master� analogy is a variation on the �Jewish conspiracy� theme, the Jew as usurer and villain. �In Beck�s twisted mind, Soros is Shylock the ruthless moneylender in Shakespeare�s The Merchant of Venice, or Fagin the Jew in Charles Dickens� Oliver Twist, a man who deals in stolen goods and leads a gang of pickpocketing young boys.

Elan Steinberg, vice president of the The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants, said that Beck�s charges are �monstrous,� and �go to the heart of the instrumentalization and trivialization of the Holocaust.�� Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said that Beck�s statement was �completely inappropriate and offensive,� adding that �For a political commentator or entertainer to have the audacity to say, there's a Jewish boy sending Jews to death camps, that's horrific. It's totally off limits and over the top.�����������

But just weeks earlier on October 22, Foxman had written a letter to Beck, calling him a �friend of Israel,� and apologizing for an ADL mailer that �inadvertently misidentified you on a list of celebrities who made anti-Semitic statements over the past year.�� And on October 13, the ADL presented an award to Rupert Murdoch, Beck�s boss, �for his stalwart support of Israel and his commitment to promoting respect and speaking out against anti-Semitism.�� In his acceptance speech, Murdoch announced that the most virulent forms of anti-Semitism come from the left, often dressed up as legitimate criticism of Israel.� That day, the ADL released its blacklist of the so-called top 10 anti-Israel groups in America, all of whom are leftwing civil rights and human rights groups critical of the occupation of the Palestinians.� On the list is Jewish Voice For Peace� a progressive Jewish group whose advisors include respected rabbis in the American Jewish community, and prominent Jewish Americans such as actor Ed Asner and journalist Naomi Klein.

Old-guard Jewish organizations such as the ADL and AIPAC have entered into a marriage of convenience with the American conservative movement, thereby enabling anti-Semites like Glenn Beck.� That marriage has turned into a Faustian bargain.� The ADL and others court the Christian Right for their so-called �pro-Israel� stand, although evangelical support for Israel is based on the belief that all Jews will die when Jesus Christ returns.� Critics of Israel�s hard-right, ultra-Orthodox coalition government� including anti-occupation and pro-Palestinian rights groups� are branded as �anti-Semites.�� Progressive pro-Israel, pro-peace Jewish groups such as J Street are branded as self-haters.� Shutting down debate stalls the peace process and undermines everyone, including American Jews, the Israelis and the Palestinians.����

Meanwhile, Fox News holds onto Beck as its useful idiot, albeit a dangerous one.� Fox is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Republican Party, or vice versa.� It is no secret that Murdoch has given truckloads of money to the GOP, and that Fox is the official Tea Party network.� And it is no secret that as Beck pimped the legacy of Martin Luther King, he also partnered with the Tea Party corporate front group FreedomWorks to elect extremist-right candidates.�

All of us should be concerned about Glenn Beck�s verbal assault on George Soros and his mocking of the Holocaust.� Yet, this is more than a Jewish issue.� We live in a time of scapegoats, the �other,� including Muslims, Arabs, Latino immigrants, and the LGBT community.� Hard economic times do that to �civilized� societies.� People need someone, anyone to blame for their misfortunes.� And they delude themselves into believing that once the �other� is eliminated, their problems will disappear.

Kristallnacht was the culmination of a campaign of racist rhetoric against a group of people.� This led to full-scale violence against that group, and laws designed to bring about their civil and physical death.� The Glenn Becks in a given society are the propagandists that get the process going.� They soften up the public through media manipulation, and make their audience receptive to the persecution of others.���������

So, how long will Glenn Beck last?� Certainly, he is important to Fox News as their money-maker, their rising star.� But one should remember that when stars turn into black holes, they can destroy everything in their path, even light.� With a successful boycott effort causing Beck�s sponsors to drop like flies, we must ask if this latest chapter will prove to be his undoing.

BlackCommentator.com Executive Editor, David A. Love, JD is a journalist and human rights advocate based in Philadelphia, and a contributor to The Huffington Post, theGrio, The Progressive Media Project, McClatchy-Tribune News Service, In These Times and Philadelphia Independent Media Center. He also blogs at davidalove.com, NewsOne, Daily Kos, and Open Salon. Click here to contact Mr. Love.