[Cronos]

The roots of recent Hungarian anti-semitism date to 1918, but the a-s party harkens back to ancient history calling on incidenets like on August 29, 1526 when the Hungarians lost to the Ottoman Turks and deserted Buda (Budapest). The Jews who remained in the abandoned city gave the grand vizier the keys to the abandoned fort and thereby securing eternal bad propaganda pieces against them

Things got better after the revolutions of 1848 and the population was 5% of the Jewish faith

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But the immediate and present reasons given by the a-s party is that after WWI when there was a brief communist rule in Hungary, the revolutionary leaders were all (except 1) of Jewish origin (note: origin, most were converts or athiests) like the leader Bela Kun (Bela Kohen) -- sufficient fodder for anti-semites.

during the communist rule from 1945 there were others of Jewish background (but not, I repeat NOT practising Jews) -- like Erno Gero (the head of state in the 50s) and Peter Gabor (head of the secret police). Let me repeat -- these were of Jewish background only, were NOT practising Jews and might be classified as anti-semitic themselves, but most people don't care for finer details and would use this as a stick.

Now they are just 0.5% of the total population but many people must have some Jewish blood in them (you can't have a large population living side by side without some dissemination) so the entire anti-semitism to me seems illogical.

[Pontiac]

Szegedi met in early August with Rabbi Slomo Koves, of Hungary’s Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch community, whose own parents were in their teens when they discovered they were Jewish.

During the meeting, Szegedi apologized for any statements which may have offended the Jewish community, and vowed to visit Auschwitz to pay his respects.

What I see here is a politician now cast out by his political base and now seeking to build a new base. Political survivalism.

I don’t see much hope for him.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

“anti-Semitic party in Hungary”

Hmmm, so in other words they have Democrats there as well.

[Unam Sanctam]

Leader of anti-Semitic party in Hungary finds out that he's Jewish

Whoops! Don't you hate when that happens?....

[kabumpo]

Ironically, the person most responsible for the deportations and deaths of Hungarian Jews during the Nazi occupation was a Jew, Erich Kastner, a so-called leader of the Jewish community. Kastner and other Jewish leaders were warned about what really awaited the Jews at the exterminatation camps by two heroic escapees from Auschwitz. Kastner used the information to get his own family and a select group out of Hungary, and concealed the information from the rest of the population, allowing hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews to go blindly into being slaughtered.
Kastner went to live in Israel, where he was assassinated for his heinous crimes in Tel Aviv in the mid 1950s.

[chainsaw]

shades of Hitler. History repeating itself.

[paudio]

So what. 0bama’s half white. Yet, his policies often are in favor of Black, and put the whites in a disadvantage position.