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Rising anti-Semitism in Hungary worries Jewish groups | Europe| News and current affairs from around the continent | DW

Hungary: Orban critics fight to be heard Celebrating anti-Semitic public figures This government is not anti-Semitic,” claimed Andras Kovas, Professor for Jewish Studies at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest in an interview with DW. However, he agreed that the government does use anti-Semitic stereotypes in its ongoing campaign against Soros. The government has also celebrated public figures who are openly anti-Semitic. The far-right Erno Raffay who had already received numerous awards, was given another in August. In 2015, he had compared migrants from largely Muslim countries to Jewish immigrants in the 19th century, saying that these latter had multiplied  and pushed  Hungarians from many areas of society. This should be a lesson to [Hungary]  he added.

Rising anti-Semitism in Hungary worries Jewish groups

Rising anti-Semitism in Hungary worries Jewish groups dw.com 12/17/2020 Felix Schlagwein Hungary says it provides a safe environment for its Jewish community. But the government has shown itself to be tolerant of anti-Semitic figures in public life. © Getty Images/G. Kuchta Provided by Deutsche Welle Jewish groups in Hungary and abroad condemned a recent op-ed in the Hungarian online media outlet Origo, in which a government-appointed cultural commissioner compares George Soros to Hitler. Szilard Demeter, the head of Budapest s Petofi Museum of Literature and a loyal supporter of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, compared the Hungarian-born Jewish billionaire Soros as a liberal Fuhrer and Europe as his gas chamber;” he also likened Poland and Hungary to the new Jews.” Poison gas flows from the capsule of a multicultural open society, which is deadly to the European way of life,” he wrote. After a massive outcry in both Hungary and abroad,

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