“Opposition Socialist MPs, mayor Tivadar Puskás of the Christian Democrats, which is junior partner in the ruling alliance, and renowned pianist Tamás Vásáry were among 300 or so who turned out in Szombathely on Saturday to protest against Jobbik.” Read more: via Hostile crowd greets Jobbik MP | The Budapest Times.
“The Minister of Immigration, Jason Kenney, had some pretty tough words on Friday for a country he has, in the past, described as a “liberal democracy” that “respects human rights.” At a news conference in Ottawa on Friday, Kenney said that during a recent visit to that country he noted “a very disturbing rise of … Continue reading
“When one foreign businessman took his family to the annual fair in Pomaz, a prosperous dormitory town north of Budapest, in September, he did not expect to be confronted with the harsh reality of Hungarian politics. “Bands were playing, kids were dancing, surrounded by stalls selling assorted handicrafts, home-made jams and the like,” he says. … Continue reading
“BUDAPEST, HUNGARY BosNewsLife– Thousands of Hungarians on Sunday, December 2, braved winter temperatures to attend an anti-Nazi rally in Budapest against a far-right leaders proposal to draw up lists of Hungarian Jews who may “represent a security risk” for the nation. Márton Gyöngyösi of the Hungarian Movement for a Better Hungary Jobbik, the countrys largest … Continue reading
“Conversations with the right-wing extremist Hungarian politician Márton Gyöngyösi regularly devolve into tiring marathons of relativization. He’s not an anti-Semite, he insists, but the Jews … ; he’s not against the Roma, but the Gypsies … ; he’s not an extremist in favor of dictatorships, but liberal democracy … has failed. The 33-year-old economist and … Continue reading
“Central Europe’s most successful extreme-right wing party has consistently denied that it is antisemitic, or racist, despite mounting evidence to the contrary. The call by a member of extreme-right opposition party Jobbik to compile a list of Jews living in Hungary only confirmed what many opponents of the party already suspected. In addition to the … Continue reading
“Italy’s capital has been rattled by increasing militancy by the extreme right since October, with weekly demonstrations by the neo-fascist youth group Blocco Studentesco often ending in clashes with police. Local media initially blamed Thursday’s attack on hard-core fans or ‘ultras’ supporting Lazio, who Tottenham had travelled to the capital to play in the Europa … Continue reading
The popularity of Greece’s anti-immigrant Golden Dawn party has soared in recent months, as the Washington Post’s Anthony Faiola reports. But Greece is far from the only country in which anti-immigrant and Islamophobic sentiments have been on the rise. Amid concerns over the economic downturn and austerity in the euro zone, as well as fears about … Continue reading
BUDAPEST AFP-EJP—Hungarys Prime Minister on Wednesday blamed rising anti-Semitism at home on a US-based website and urged Washington to help close this source of “provocation”. On June 21, fifty members of the Congress wrote a letter to Orban calling on the Hungarian government to fight anti-Semitism and all extreme expressions. Signatories to the letter voiced … Continue reading
Radical nationalist Jobbik party leader Gabor Vona said on Friday that he was prepared to conduct a public debate with Slomo Koves, head of the Unified Hungarian Jewish Congregation, on anti-Semitism. Koves spoke about the need to launch a consultation between Hungarian society and Jewish organisations on ways to combat anti-Semitism. “Jobbik has never had … Continue reading
