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November 12, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=624&PID=0&IID=5229&TTL=Anti-Semitism_in_Hungary

Anti-Semitism in Hungary

(Institute for Global Jewish Affairs) Laszlo Molnar - Anti-Semitism reemerged in Hungary after the transition to democracy in 1989. Traditional anti-Semitism has resurfaced and received an institutional framework, while verbal and physical aggression against Jews and Roma has intensified. The openly anti-Semitic, anti-Roma party Jobbik received 17% of the vote in the April 2010 national elections. The far-right subculture includes nationalist shops - where one can find Nazi, neo-Nazi, and fascist literature along with pagan and wartime pro-Nazi, Hungarist symbols - as well as radical-nationalist and neo-Nazi festivals and events. This subculture has been able to promote its ideology without any serious consequences over the past decade as the emergence of Jobbik enabled anti-Semitism to become part of the mainstream public discourse.

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