When Benjamin Netanyahu begins an official visit to Hungary today, he will mark one of the most remarkable alliances in world politics: The alliance between a prime minister of the Jewish state and a group of would-be authoritarians who exploit anti-Semitism for political gain. Welcoming Netanyahu in Budapest will be Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who…
BUDAPEST (JTA) — A top Jewish official in Hungary is seeking a strong condemnation of anti-Semitism in the country from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the Israeli leader arrived Monday for a four-day visit there. “It is the most important for the Hungarian Jewish community that the Israeli prime minister condemns strongly any kind of…
Leaders of Poland’s Jewish community were deeply upset last month when President Trump defied precedent to be the first American leader in decades to forego visiting the monument that commemorates the doomed revolt of Warsaw’s Jews against the Nazis. Worse yet, Trump went to a different monument hailing Polish heroism in World War II where…
Sebastian Gorka, the controversial White House anti-terrorism aide, has become one of Donald Trump’s favorite onscreen defenders, according to Axios. In recent days, Gorka has taken to Fox, MSNBC and CNN to support the president and fire back against what he likes to call the “fake news industrial complex.” “I’m sad to see CNN fall…
(JTA) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban vowed to protect religious freedoms in his country during a talk with foreign rabbis visiting for the opening of a large kosher slaughterhouse for geese. Orban, whose right-wing government is currently under heavy criticism by the Mazsihisz umbrella group of Hungarian Jewish communities for its campaign against the…
(JTA) — Hungary’s government denied reports that it prematurely ended its media campaign against billionaire George Soros amid pressure by leaders of Hungarian Jewry and Israel’s Foreign Ministry. The report appeared Wednesday on the news website of the ATV television station, which is highly critical of the policies of Hungary’s right-wing prime minister, Viktor Orban. The decision to take…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A statement by Israel’s envoy to Hungary denouncing a government campaign against Jewish-American billionaire George Soros was meant to address the resulting anti-Semitism not defend Soros, Israeli’s Foreign Ministry said. “Israel deplores any expression of anti-Semitism in any country and stands with Jewish communities everywhere in confronting this hatred,” Israel’s Foreign Ministry…
(JTA) — Israel’s ambassador to Hungary called for a halt to a government campaign against Jewish-American billionaire George Soros, which Jewish leaders have said is provoking more anti-Semitism. “It’s our moral responsibility to raise a voice and call on the relevant authorities to exert their power and put an end to this cycle,” Ambassador Yossi…
