Nadene Goldfoot
Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary since 2010
Back on June 29, 2017, almost 5 years ago, the anti-Defamation League (ADL), warned us about remarks made by the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, who was praising a notorious anti-Semite and ally of Hitler and Nazi Germany, the Hungarian leader, Miklos Horthy. This man, Horthy, had introduced anti-Semitic legislation, allied with Nazi Germany, and deported Jews to their death, and Orban was praising him. It was the whole Hungarian government who took this position!
Orbán has reinvigorated his government’s anti-Soros campaign, which has often been marked by conspiratorial and antisemitic rhetoric, as Hungary and Poland have tussled with other European leaders over the so-called “rule-of-law” mechanism (human rights within the EU). The dispute is holding up final agreement on the EU’s €1.7tn (£1.5tn) seven-year budget and recovery package. (https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2020/09/hungary-rule-of-law/)
Hungary’s rightwing prime minister, Viktor Orbán, is threatening to veto the new EU budget over a provision that would link some funding to rule-of-law concerns. As the standoff intensifies, he has found a familiar enemy to blame: the 90-year-old financier and philanthropist George Soros.
The Hungarian prime minister told Tucker Carlson of Fox News that Biden has "limited knowledge" of his country, and therefore cannot understand the issues at hand when he makes such remarks. "Somebody who does not speak our language has a very limited knowledge on Hungary, even in the recent several decades of our life, not understanding of obviously having an opinion like that," he said. "You know, it's by itself, it's a personal insult for all the Hungarians."
Biden's 2020 opponent, Trump, was notably close with Orban – as the left-leaning Brookings Institution claimed that the then-president's hosting of Poland's Andrzej Duda was essentially helping him in his reelection bid against a left-leaning Warsaw mayor. Orban – speaking with "Tucker Carlson Tonight" on Thursday -- was the first European leader to endorse Trump's reelection bid, while Trump lauded Orban's border security and counterterrorism policies, as well as endeavors to "protect and help Christian communities" throughout the world.
Haj Amin al-Husseini, Sherif of Jerusalem, meeting in Germany with Hitler to solve his problems with Jews...
When Nazism came to power, it affected Hungary as well. The scope of anti-Jewish measures enacted by the Hungarian government increased.
Notice Germany's proximity to Czech Republic, Poland...After Adolf Hitler rose to power in 1933, the Hungarian government became interested in making an alliance with Nazi Germany for their own self preservation. To do so, they took on the attributes of the Nazis.
Hungary was awarded more land in March 1941 when, despite its alliance with the Yugoslav government, Hungary joined its new ally, Germany, in invading and splitting up Yugoslavia. By that time, with all its new territories, the Jewish population in Greater Hungary had reached 725,007, not including about 100,000 Jews who had converted to Christianity but were still racially considered to be “Jews.”
Hungary's government have celebrated openly anti-Semitic public figures such as Erno Raffay who compared Muslim migrants to Jewish immigrants of the 19th century by saying that the Jews had multiplied and pushed Hungarians from many areas of their own society. This should be a lesson to Hungary, he added.
Orban's close friend, Zsolt Bayer, journalist, 10 years ago described two well-known Jews as "stinking excrement." He regretted that Hungary didn't bury all the Jews up to their necks in the woods of Orgovany. He was referred to the White Terror massacres of Jews and Communists by counter-revolutionary soldiers in 1919. Bayer is known for his anti-Semitic comments. These Jews were the French-German politician, Daniel Cohn Bendit and Hungarian-born pianist, Andras Schiff.
Such an anti-Semite was awarded 3 years later with the Order of Merit of the Knight's Cross, one of the highest in Hungary. The government seems to be playing with its population, praising anti-Semites with one side of their mouths while condemning anti-Semitism with the other.
Jewish brothers from Subcarpathian Rus (then part of Hungary) await selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. May 1, 1944. —Yad Vashem (Public Domain) These anti-Jewish measures were also applied to the 300,000 Jews in territories which the Hungarians annexed from Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Romania during WWII. In 1944, the Nazis overran Hungary, imposing ghettos, concentration camps, and deportations to extermination centers. Of Hungary's 725,000 Jews, about 400,000 were killed. Hungary's total population in 1939 was 9,129,000. Yugoslavia had 15,490,000. Romania had 19,933,800.
Hungary's role in the Holocaust is nothing to brag about. Between May and the middle of July 1944, , some 450,000 Hungarian Jews were deported and 350,000 gassed at Auschwitz. They were the last country to suffer from the Holocaust. In total, between 1939 and 1945, 6,000,000 Jewish victims were slaughtered by the Nazis. The head Nazi, Goering,'s answer to Hitler's Jewish Question, was to involve a dozen countries, many of which, like Hungary and Italy, had not turned against their Jews in any murderous way yet, would do so.
"Hungary has attempted to relativize Hungary's role in the Holocaust over and over again. A few ways it does so is by erecting statues or monuments — like Budapest's Memorial for Victims of the German Occupation, which critics say relativizes Hungary's role in the deportation of more than 440,000 Jews during the Holocaust — or setting up museums, such as the controversial "House of Terror" in Budapest. Anti-Semitic writers such as Albert Wass who was sentenced in absentia to death for war crimes in 1946 are now part of the national curriculum.
"The problem, not only in Hungary," argued Heisler, "is that politicians from all camps play the ‘Jew card' when it works for them politically." He has called on all politicians and parties to put a stop to anti-Semitism.
Vicktor Orban
Mr. Orban is the apogee of these contradictions: He is a far-right leader of a country whose Jewish citizens say they face less harassment than Jews in any other part of Europe. Mr. Orban and his party, Fidesz, have used anti-Semitic tropes to promote his vision of Hungarian nationalism, and have been accused of trying to understate Hungarian complicity in the Holocaust — even as he has bankrolled many Jewish institutions and causes.
Under Mr. Orban, anti-Semitic authors from the Horthy era have been added to the national curriculum, and the Constitution has been rewritten to imply that the Horthy government was not responsible for its actions during the final 14 months of World War II, a period during which the vast majority of Hungarian Jews were deported and murdered.
Almost ironically, Viktor Orban is a close friend of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has rarely uttered any criticism of anti-Semitism in Hungary. The two have similar political agendas, are critical of the EU and share an animosity towards Soros." What is the old story? The enemy of my enemy is my friend (at least for the time being). Politicians must practice a lot of pretense with each other.
Budapest, Hungarian born George Soros on August 12, 1930, 91 years old What about the attacks against billionaire Jewish philanthropist George Soros, I asked. In the 2017 parliamentary election, Orbán promoted anti-Semitic imagery of powerful Jewish financiers scheming to control the world. Thousands of posters of a grinning Soros with the slogan “Let’s not allow Soros to have the last laugh!” were posted around the country on billboards, on the metro, and on the floors of Budapest’s trams. Just this year, a new media campaign featured Soros and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker with the caption: “You also have the right to know what Brussels is preparing for!”
This is sad because such old hat slander. Such accusations have been going on as long as probably the 1st century CE about Jews and money, and that's because Christianity caused all professions to be taken from Jews except money-lending; banking, etc. George Soros is not liked by many Jews including myself, though he is a Jew who was in the Holocaust. His actions since then have been against Israel. I think his thinking has been damaged by the Holocaust except his knowledge of making money. I'll let the psychologist figure this person out. I see that the anti-Semites are taking advantage of these 2 coincidences. Sad, indeed.
From October 2015, when Orbán personally cast the Hungarian-born American financier and Holocaust survivor, George Soros, as a national hate-figure, accusing him of funding those who “support everything that weakens the nation-state” and “the European human rights activism that encourages the refugees” to reach Europe, the tension acquired a more immediate nature. For over three years, the Orbán government has been running a political campaign warning of hordes of Muslim immigrants about to descend on Europe. The face of that campaign is an elderly Jewish financier, George Soros, born in Budapest to a non-observant Jewish family, Soros survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary and moved to the United Kingdom in 1947, and the terms used to describe him could have been lifted directly from the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”
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