Not only did Timothy not criticise Soros as a Jew, he didn't even refer to him as a Jew. But it seems the fact that Soros is a Jew was enough to censure Timothy as an 'antisemite.' It took no more.
Stephen Bush wrote in The New Statesman , "The reason that many find the Telegraph's treatment so disturbing is that Soros, who is Jewish, has been at the centre of a series of anti-Semitic conspiracies by the increasingly authoritarian governments in Poland, Hungary and Turkey." It is mildly amusing that the banal Stephen Bush can't see that he himself employs an authoritarian manner of thought. Unless guilt by association has become Britain's press' MO, the fact that some regimes not approved of by Bush or The New Statesman decided to cleanse themselves of Soros' infiltration has little relevance to Timothy or his argument.
Bush adds that "Timothy was the author of that 'citizens of nowhere' speech only adds to feeling among many that the original speech was a coded way of talking about "rootless cosmopolitans"; aka the Jewish people." This passage describes a kosherly coded minefield that we can not possibly navigate unless Bush and The New Statesman provide us with the complete newspeak lexicon.
Comment: Indeed it is fascinating, and surreal. That so many aspects of Orwell's 1984 that are in the forefront today that you'd need to have your head stuck in the sand not to see it unfolding before your very eyes. See also: