Some 200 delegates representing 31 countries attended a concert kicking off the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance conference in Budapest. At the klezmer concert on Tuesday in the Dohany Street Synagogue, Janos Lazar, Hungary’s state secretary, said that Hungary “could not achieve what it did in the past centuries without our Jewish brothers.” At the biannual…
A Hungarian citizen was arrested in Budapest after shouting anti-Semitic curses at an Israeli diplomat. The man, a resident of Budapest, began shouting anti-Semitic invective in Hungarian after hearing Israel’s Consul to Hungary Motti Rave quietly speaking Hebrew with a companion, the Israeli news website Ynet reported. “Dirty Jews – it’s a shame Hitler didn’t…
Hungarians take special pride in their Tokaji, a dessert wine made of grapes grown in the country’s northeast region. The nectar has even made it into Hungary’s national anthem. But for one family of Jewish Holocaust survivors from the Tokaji region, the revival of this sweet wine in modern Hungary carries bitter memories and growing…
(Reuters) — Hungary’s Jobbik party will leave behind its far-right origins, keep the country in the European Union and come to terms with foreign investors as it sets its sights on government, its leader said on Tuesday. Jobbik, condemned throughout Europe as anti-Semitic and racist, is now the strongest opposition party in opinion polls and…
Hungary’s Jobbik party on Monday denied it was racist or anti-Semitic, after softening its far-right rhetoric and seizing a parliamentary seat from the ruling party in a weekend by-election amid a surge in support. Jobbik has gained support as voters drift away from mainstream parties like Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz, which is battling a…
Thousands came out for the the March of the Living in Budapest, where World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder reminded the Hungarian government to speak out against anti-Semitism. Lauder also denounced the far-right Jobbik party, the second largest in the country, as “extremist” on Sunday at the annual commemoration of the Holocaust in the Hungarian…
Vandals in Budapest defaced an exhibition about Holocaust survivors and, in a separate incident, painted a swastika opposite a synagogue. The incident involving the exhibition was reported on Sunday by the Hungarian Jewish community’s watchdog on anti-Semitism, the Action and Protection Foundation, or TEV. According to the report on TEV’s Facebook page, unknown individuals on…
(Reuters) — The Hungarian far-right leader Gabor Vona, founder of a since disbanded paramilitary group who made a career vilifying the Roma and Jews, has cleaned up his previously hardline image. Donning smart suits, he has softened his rhetoric and is wooing the mainstream voter, rather than any marginal groups. His personal makeover reflects his…
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