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Inside the far-Right stronghold where Hungarian Jews fear for the future
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 7:00PM BST 04 May 2013 | Colin Freeman, Tiszavasvári

Posted on 05/05/2013 3:09:36 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople

As the self-declared "capital" of the ultra-nationalist Jobbik Party, the town of Tiszavasvári prides itself on being a showcase for how the whole of Hungary might one day look.

Since winning control of Tiszavasvári's local council three years ago on a pledge to fight "Gipsy crime", the party has been on a vigorous clean-up campaign, banning prostitution, tidying the streets, and keeping a watchful eye on the shabby Roma districts at the edge of town. It even swore in its own Jobbik "security force" to work alongside the police, only for the uniformed militia, which drew comparisons with Hitler's brown-shirts, to be banned by Hungary's national government.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Israel
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; hungary; jobbik
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To: Impy

haha


21 posted on 05/05/2013 9:06:57 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: GeronL; cripplecreek

His grandmother was actually an Auschwitz survivor. I bet that made the poor bastard feel like crap.

Csanád Szegedi, this happened about a year ago. I think he’s still an MEP for Hungary.

Some article I read said he was rethinking his life and was going to meet a Rabbi who had similarly discovered he was Jewish late in life.


22 posted on 05/06/2013 12:13:30 AM PDT by Impy (All in favor of Harry Reid meeting Mr. Mayhem?)
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To: Impy
I bet that made the poor bastard feel like crap

We can hope so. Shame is a good teacher.

23 posted on 05/06/2013 12:15:23 AM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: MuttTheHoople

>> Why they call these neo-Nazis “far right” is beyond me.

Left and Right are ambiguous qualifiers in the geopolitical sense. But you’re correct in pointing to the Socialistic fabric of Nazism.


24 posted on 05/06/2013 12:30:18 AM PDT by Gene Eric (The Palin Doctrine.)
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To: Impy

I my geneology research I discovered that my great grandfather was very likely a Polish Jew rather than the Austrian Catholic we believed him to be.


25 posted on 05/06/2013 3:07:19 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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