A Hungarian court convicted three young men who accosted Jews in Budapest during the World Jewish Congress general assembly. In an expedited court procedure on May 9, one of the men, identified by the Hungarian news site Hir24 as Gabor M., was sentenced to three years in jail and the other two, Gabor E. and…
The World Jewish Congress urged Hungary on Tuesday to crack down on the far-right Jobbik party and called on governments in Europe to consider banning neo-Nazi parties threatening democracy and minority rights. The WJC plenary assembly, held in the Hungarian capital rather than Jerusalem to highlight rising anti-Semitism in Hungary, passed a resolution saying Budapest…
Prime Minister Viktor Orban strongly denounced growing anti-Semitism in Hungary on Sunday but stopped short of censuring the far-right Jobbik party his audience of world Jewish leaders most wanted him to scold. Orban told the World Jewish Congress (WJC), which is holding its four-yearly assembly in Hungary to highlight its concern about rising hostility to…
Amid what the World Jewish Congress called an “alarming rise of neo-Nazi political parties and anti-Semitic incidents” in Hungary, participants have gathered in Budapest for the group’s plenary assembly. Highlighting these concerns, several hundred far-right demonstrators staged an “anti-Zionist” and anti-communist protest in downtown Budapest Saturday, despite the Hungarian government’s attempt to ban the rally….
Leaders of a far-right Hungarian party accused Israelis of plotting to buy up the country as several hundred nationalists protested on Saturday on the eve of a meeting of the World Jewish Congress in Budapest. Senior figures from the opposition Jobbik party, the third biggest with 43 seats in the 386-member parliament, harangued the crowd…
A Hungarian court has given the go ahead for a far-right protest on Saturday before an international conference of Jewish leaders in Budapest, saying a police ruling that banned it was belated and unlawful. But Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who had ordered the police ban, said the court ruling was “unacceptable” and has asked the…
The rise of far-right movements and anti-Semitism across Europe, notably in Hungary, where more than half a million Jews were killed in the Nazi Holocaust, will preoccupy Jewish leaders from around the globe when they meet in Budapest on Sunday. “Clearly, anti-Semitism in Hungary is on the rise, and we have also witnessed a dramatic…
As the World Jewish Congress prepares to convene in Budapest, Paul Berger covers the increasingly hostile conditions under which Hungarian Jews — one of the largest Jewish communities in Europe with an estimated population of around 85,000 recorded in 2012 — are forced to reside. Primarily, the problem in Hungary is a political problem. With…
