anti-semitism
March 11, 2010, 09:39 CET
President Sólyom signs Holocaust denial bill
President Laszlo Solyom on Wednesday signed a recent law on penalising Holocaust denial, a senior official of the president's office, told MTI. Solyom signed the law since it does not contravene the Constitution, said Ferenc Kumin. At the same time,... [read complete entry]
February 23, 2010, 09:54 CET
Hungarian MPs criminalize Holocaust denial
The denial of the Holocaust will be punishable by law under a bill passed by Parliament on Monday afternoon. Those who publicly deny the Holocaust, call it into doubt or present it as insignificant may be sentenced to up to... [read complete entry]
January 28, 2010, 09:59 CET
Israeli FM calls for Hungarian hate speech law
The Hungarian parliament should pass a hate speech law to prevent anti-Semitism from further spreading, Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's deputy prime minister and foreign minister, said in Budapest on Wednesday. Lieberman spoke at a ceremony marking Holocaust Memorial Day, and noted... [read complete entry]
December 11, 2009, 09:24 CET
Bajnai urges cooperation between left and right to fight far right
Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai on Wednesday called for joining forces between Hungary's left and right in the fight against the far right. Bajnai told a conference focusing on the co-existence and cooperation of Jewish and non-Jewish Hungarians that every possible... [read complete entry]
June 16, 2009, 10:43 CET
Demonstration called against sickening vandalism of Holocaust memorial
A senior Socialist Party official has called for a broad protest against anti-Semitic manifestations after a Holocaust memorial was vandalised in central Budapest early on Monday. On Monday morning, as yet unidentified persons placed pig's trotters into the cast iron... [read complete entry]
December 19, 2008, 11:06 CET
Fidesz reinstates former member accused of anti-Semitism
The Fidesz membership of Gabriella Cs. Kovács was reinstated earlier this week following her suit against news portal Hírszerző, in which she charged the portal of attributing anti-Semitic slurs to her, index.hu reported.... [read complete entry]
August 26, 2008, 09:20 CET
Israeli ambassador sees anti-Semitism on the rise in Hungary
Acknowledging that both the government and opposition have denounced it, the ambassador says nonetheless more should be done to prevent anti-Semitism. [read complete entry]
March 28, 2008, 11:56 CET
National furor erupts in Hungary over publication of alleged anti-Semitic essay
Resident polemicist for conservative daily Magyar Hírlap sparks controversy with opinion piece accused of containing anti-Semitic remarks not seen since the Second World War. [read complete entry]
December 21, 2007, 09:23 CET
Gyurcsány evaluates 2007 as successful year
Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány said in his end of year assessment on Thursday that the government's transformations of higher education, public administration and health care have been a triumph. He remarked that, in the latter area, such intense pressure has... [read complete entry]
November 21, 2007, 12:52 CET
Magyar Nemzet suggests that Socialists approve of deporting Jews to Israel
Conservative daily Magyar Nemzet has via an awkward headline suggested that Budapest District XIII's Socialist grouping is just fine with sending Jews back to Israel. The headline, which reads "MSZP: Sending Someone Back to Israel is not Antisemitism," is in... [read complete entry]
November 16, 2007, 06:36 CET
Nothing brings parties together like antisemitism
Showing how antisemitism can still bring political foes together, Fidesz and the Free Democrats have jointly demanded the resignation of District XIII Socialist politician Miklós Döry, after Döry opined that since György Szabó, one of Fidesz's district representatives has spent... [read complete entry]
November 08, 2007, 02:25 CET
US rejects complaint against far-right Hungarian website
Justice Department says Hungarian government fails to make case to shut down an anti-Semitic site hosted in America [read complete entry]
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