Posts Tagged: Jobbik
Mass Nazi Salute at Euro 2016 Match Spurs French Police to Investigate Hungarian Fans for Antisemitism
French police are investigating a group of Hungarian soccer fans who were caught on camera performing the Nazi salute during their team’s Euro 2016 match...
A Third of All Hungarians Espouse Widespread Antisemitic Attitudes, Survey Finds
A new survey commissioned by a Hungarian antisemitism watchdog group found that one-third of the general population in Hungary espouses varying degrees of anti-Jewish attitudes, the...
In Defense of Europe’s So-called Far Right
Sunday a week ago, the French government sponsored a solidarity rally featuring an array of foreign leaders and all domestic political parties joining together in...
Jewish Groups Concerned Over Far-Right Surge in European Union Parliamentary Elections
Jewish groups expressed concern on Monday over the surge in support for far-right parties in the European Union's parliamentary elections, with fears that hate...
Far-Right Parties Rise in Europe – Many Friendly to Russia
New York Times - At a rally last week near the Palace of Versailles, France's largest far-right party, the National Front, deployed all the familiar...
American Jews Must Wake Up to Anti-Semitism of Hungary’s Jobbik Party
JNS.org - When one in five people in a key European state votes for a neo-Nazi party, you might expect a furious response from...
Hungarian Jewish Group Considering Physically Preventing Jobbik From Protesting at Former Synagogue
JNS.org - The Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities (Mazsihisz) is considering sending people to physically prevent Hungary's ultra-nationalist Jobbik party from holding a rally...
Commemoration of Hungarian Nazi Collaborator Draws Protest
JNS.org - Nearly 1,000 protestors took to the streets in Budapest to decry the far-right Jobbik party's unveiling of a statue of Hungarian wartime...
Telling the Truth About Ukraine’s Rising Anti-Semitic ‘Svoboda’ Party: An Eye-Opening Experience – With Portents for Ukraine’s Future
On May 24, my commentary, "Svoboda Fuels Ukraine's Growing Anti-Semitism," was published in The Algemeiner, raising concerns about growing anti-Semitic political forces in Ukraine....
The Resurgence of European Antisemitism
Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Europe. A recent Tel Aviv University report found that the number of anti-Semitic incidents in Europe increased by...
Hungarian Government Develops Program to Counter Country’s Rising Anti-Semitism
The Hungarian government has prepared a comprehensive program which it hopes can begin to reverse the trend of rising anti-Semitism in the country,...
Svoboda Fuels Ukraine’s Growing Anti-Semitism
The rise of anti-Semitism in Ukraine is barely noticed in the State Department's recent International Religious Freedom Report for 2012. This is especially alarming, because...
Hungarian Church Seeks to Defrock Pastor After wife’s Anti-Semitic Speech
The Hungarian Reformed Church is trying to defrock Lorant Hegedus, a Protestant pastor, for participating in a radical right-wing rally during which his...
World Jewish Congress: Hungarian PM Not Doing Enough to Combat Anti-Semitism
Times of Israel - Prime Minister Viktor Orban did not go far enough in condemning the anti-Semitism that has reared its head in ...
