Lili Bayer
By Lili Bayer
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Fast Forward 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. In New York, Rabbi Michael Paley of UJA-Federation of New York, told the Forward, “We, along with many other global Jewish organizations, are concerned with recent government actions against the Jewish community in…
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News EXCLUSIVE: Controversial Trump Aide Sebastian Gorka Backed Violent Anti-Semitic Militia
As a Hungarian political leader in 2007, Sebastian Gorka, President Trump’s chief counter-terrorism adviser, publicly supported a violent racist and anti-Semitic paramilitary militia that was later banned as a threat to minorities by multiple court rulings. In a video obtained by the Forward of an August 2007 television appearance by Gorka, the future White House…
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News 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. The Forward, in an exclusive published on-line just three days earlier, had identified the group as one…
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News How Sebastian Gorka Catapulted From Far-Right Obscurity In Hungary To The White House
Sebastian Gorka, who sits in the Trump White House as deputy assistant to the president just five years after becoming a U.S. citizen, has faced growing controversy about his academic and professional credentials. Critics have also highlighted his past association with racist and anti-Semitic figures in Hungary, where he lived as a citizen for many…
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News EXCLUSIVE: Senior Trump Aide Forged Key Ties To Anti-Semitic Groups In Hungary
When photographs recently emerged showing Sebastian Gorka, President Donald Trump’s high-profile deputy assistant, wearing a medal associated with the Nazi collaborationist regime that ruled Hungary during World War II, the controversial security strategist was unapologetic. “I’m a proud American now and I wear that medal now and again,” Gorka told Breitbart News. Gorka, 46, who…
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Fast Forward 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 the morning of Wednesday, February 1, sitting in his office overlooking the partially frozen Danube River, Vona was dressed in…
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News Far Right Party’s Hanukkah Greeting to Hungarian Jews Sets off a Firestorm
Jews around the world are used to local politicians sending holiday greetings during Rosh Hashanah or Hannukah, and the statements often go relatively unnoticed. But in Hungary, a recent Hannukah letter has sparked a firestorm. Gábor Vona, the leader of Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party, for the first time ever, sent a letter on December 24…
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News Europe’s Jews See Donald Trump — and Worry About Their Own Surging Extremists
As the first results of the U.S. presidential election were released on November 8, the Union of French Jewish Students, which goes by the acronym UEJF, posted a worried note on its website. “Donald Trump, through his racist, anti-Semitic, sexist, conspiracy-theorist, xenophobic, misogynist, anti-abortion, pro-death penalty and torture positions, is a threat to human rights,…
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