Hungary’s Squeeze On Jewish Center Sparks Outcry At Home And Abroad
Jewish groups in Hungary and abroad are speaking out following government sanctions against a popular center run by a Jewish youth organization.
EXCLUSIVE: Controversial Trump Aide Sebastian Gorka Backed Violent Anti-Semitic Militia
In 2007, Sebastian Gorka, President Trump’s chief counter-terrorism adviser, publicly supported a violent racist and anti-Semitic paramilitary group.
Controversy Over Trump Aide Gorka Sparks A Wikipedia Editors War
On the morning of March 19, as a controversy grew over senior presidential aide Sebastian Gorka, an unidentified individual amended the Wikipedia page of a previously obscure far-right Hungarian organization called the Vitézi Rend, or Order of Vitéz.
How Sebastian Gorka Catapulted From Far-Right Obscurity In Hungary To The White House
While Gorka patron Steve Bannon is well known, Thomas Saunders III is a lesser-known figure to the general public. But Saunders, a private equity fund manager has been is a major donor to the Republican Party, chairman of the conservative Heritage Foundation and related to Gorka’s wife, Katharine Cornell Gorka.
EXCLUSIVE: Senior Trump Aide Forged Key Ties To Anti-Semitic Groups In Hungary
The Forward finds Sebastian Gorka, a close aide to President Trump, had close ties to the Hungarian far-right, and worked with openly racist groups.
Exclusive: In First Talk With Jewish Media, Hungary’s Far Right Leader Strikes A New Pose
Gábor Vona, who heads Hungary’s far-right party, Jobbik, famously showed up on his first day as a member of Parliament in 2010 wearing the uniform of a banned racist and an anti-Semitic paramilitary group. But sitting in his office overlooking the partially frozen Danube River, Vona was dressed in a simple gray suit for his first-ever interview with a Jewish publication.
Far Right Party’s Hanukkah Greeting to Hungarian Jews Sets off a Firestorm
Gábor Vona, the leader of Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party, for the first time ever, sent a letter in December to Hungarian Jews conveying greetings to “you and your faith community with respect on the occasion of Hanukkah.” The letter, from the head of a party with a long history of anti-Semitism, has set off a firestorm within the Hungarian Jewish community.
Europe’s Jews See Donald Trump — and Worry About Their Own Surging Extremists
For many European Jews, Trump’s victory is a signal that Europe’s struggle with ethno-nationalist populism is spreading to America, the land most of them viewed as the world’s redoubt against this tide.
Young Jews in Hungary Fight Rightist Government on Behalf of Immigrants
As Hungary grapples with the impact of an unprecedented refugee crisis — and the government’s own vitriolic anti-refugee campaign — young Budapest Jews have come to the forefront of the fight for refugees’ rights.