Budapest Experiences A New Wave of Hate

2010. október 15. 09:11

The Hungarian capital is experiencing a rebirth of anti-Semitism. The far-right Jobbik party is part of the government and Jews are being openly intimidated.

2010. október 15. 09:11
„The New York Times recently dubbed Budapest »Hollywood on the Danube.« More international films are produced there than in any other European city, partly because Budapest has state-of-the-art production studios and receives generous tax breaks from the government. Most of all, however, it's because of the city itself. Budapest is Europe in a nutshell, the perfect double for Rome, Paris, Madrid or Munich and the ideal setting for all kinds of movies. Anthony Hopkins is currently filming a thriller there, while Nicole Kidman appears in a comedy being produced in Budapest. Earlier this year, Robert Pattinson, the star of the »Twilight« films, shot scenes on Budapest's landmark Széchenyi Chain Bridge for the upcoming film »Bel Ami.«

But there is also news from the real Budapest, and the real Hungary of recent months.

Neo-fascist thugs attacked Roma families, killing six people in a series of murders. The right-wing populists of the Fidesz Party won a two-thirds majority in the parliament, while the anti-Semitic Jobbik party captured 16.7 percent of the vote, making it the third-largest party in Hungary, next to the Socialists. Unknown vandals defiled the Holocaust Memorial with bloody pigs' feet. A new law granted the government direct or indirect control over about 80 percent of the media. The television channel Echo TV showed an image of Nobel laureate and Auschwitz survivor Imre Kertész together with a voiceover about rats. Civil servants can now be fired without cause. Krisztina Morvai, a member of the European Parliament for Jobbik, suggested that »liberal-Bolshevik Zionists« should start thinking about »where to flee and where to hide.«

Nazi Allusions

On May 14, 2010, Gábor Vona, the chairman of Jobbik, was about to make an appearance at the Hungarian parliament, whose seat is probably the world's most beautiful parliament building, a domed, neo-Gothic structure protected by bronze lions. Everyone was concerned that Vona would appear dressed in a fascist uniform from the past. As it happened, he showed up in a black suit, to the relief of many in the audience. But shortly before the swearing-in ceremony, the radical right-wing politician threw off his jacket to reveal a vest reminiscent of the uniforms of the Arrow Cross Party. Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung described it as »sort of a Nazi outfit.«”
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MOPO3OB
2010. október 17. 19:37
Mekkora liberál lap ez a Der Spiegel. Kommenteket, amelyek kiigazítanak olyan fatális tévedéseket, mint "The far-right Jobbik party is part of the government" nem engednek ki az oldalukra. Egyre jobban megutálom a németeket.
crm114
2010. október 15. 16:02
Ilyen cikkek után szoktam úgy gondolni, hogy nem is baj, ha a németek szép lassan kihalnak, a nyelvük elangolosodik, a városaik elkurdosodnak/eltörökösödnek, a maradék németek pedig kivándorolnak. Úgy kell nekik.
Übermayer
2010. október 15. 15:08
"The far-right Jobbik party is part of the government." bocs, de ez a mondat hol van az eredeti cikkben?
Vhailor
2010. október 15. 12:49
"The far-right Jobbik party is part of the government..." "...Jews are being openly intimidated." "...a vest reminiscent of the uniforms of the Arrow Cross Party..." It looks to me, that Eric Follath spent too much time in a bar with people from the former SZDSZ and took their "horror stories" about nazi Hungarians for facts. The government should do something about this rats nest, which has nothing else to do, than to always cry antisemitism when somebody else than thier favourites is in power.
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