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WJC urges Hungary to combat hate crimes
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Published: 03.05.13, 14:14
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1. Ruffling feders again ,...
split ,   US   (05.03.13)
Clean you own house first before pointing finger at others - There's no other nation that can beat Israelis antisemitism - Palis, Beduines and Druze are Semites too ,...
2. 5 reasons Premier Orban
y-man ,   budapest   (05.03.13)
should not have been invited to speak at WJC session. 1. His gov't awarded infamous antisemites 6 weeks ago. 2. His close friend writes antisemitic articles and Orban does not condemn him. 3. He ordered a theatre to be transferred to neo-Nazi hands two years ago. 4. He is friendly with oligarchs that finance antisemitic organizations. 5. He is a tyrant.
3. Mutual provocation fuels the hatred
Tom W ,   USA   (05.03.13)
1. Unknown to the West: Hungary was twice under bloody Bolshevik rule - 1919 and 1945-89 and the majority of communist leaders and party cadres were ethnic Jews. a.)Hungarians resent the Jews' refusal to condemn their brethren bloody terror retroactively. b.)Jewish leaders simply deny the fact that Jews had anything to do with Bolshevism. What's missing, it is a decent man, like Sever Plocker of YNETNEWS who had the moral courage to call a spade a spade: "Stalin's Jews We mustn't forget that some of greatest murderers of modern times were Jewish" http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3342999,00.html Only 20 years passed since the collapse of communism so its victims are still living and remembering this unresolved open wound. Then an American billionaire, R. Lauder comes and starts lecturing and scolding many of the former victims. It's counterproductive when an ignorant Jewish American plutocrat starts issuing sermons and puts his nose into other people tormented life.
4. #2. What are you talking about?
Tom W ,   USA   (05.03.13)
The Hungarian Prime minister is voted into office by 2/3 of the voters. Hungary is an EU member country so you cannot come up with the "tyrant" crap, - elections are clear, and fair.. The problem is that the communists comfortably ensconced themselves for over 60 years - with the help of the Red Army and the secret police - and they cannot accept the loss of their absolute power to the nationalists. Radical leftists (communist) could not get into the parliament hence the hysteria: they found more sympathetic audience in the West...
5. orban got 52% of the vote in 2010
y-man ,   budapest   (05.03.13)
6. Tom @ 3 ,...
split ,   US   (05.04.13)
If you want see real chutzpah and in your face attitude google "Jewish group objects to ‘Great Famine’ case". Somehow related to Mr. Plocker's piece ,...
7. #6.split: unlike your generalized antisemitism
Tom W ,   USA   (05.04.13)
I differentiate between the "internationalist" Bolsheviks and the nationalist Israelis. The former were the Stalinist and virulently opposed the Zionist, see "Yevsektsiya - "Еврейская секция"). They deported the Zionist to E. Siberia, Birobidjan. I support Israel and the Zionist: they are for their own country and don't want to impose their ideology on the whole world like the Soros-N.Y.Times types. Soros from Budapest, Hungary and E. Teller (H bomb) from Budapest, Hungary are not the same. I distinguish between the two, you don't.
8. I was attacked several times in Budapest
Gavriel ,   Budapest, Hungary   (05.05.13)
I'm a normal secular looking Hungarian Jew. Without wearing a kipah or a David star necklace in a visible way, I was several times verbally attacked in Budapest. "Hey Jew, is it good to live in Hungary? Why don't you go back to Israel? (...) " You should know, that the word "zsidó" (Jew) is a bad-sounding word in this county. If they want to address a Jew in a polite way, they say "Israelite" (izraelita) or they don't differentiate at all. Lots of Hungarians think, that in Israel people started to study Hungarian language, due to the "fact", that the Jewish state "is going to collapse" soon. For this reason, Israelis started to look for a new "Lebensraum", "of course" in Hungary! Large segments of Hungarian society think, that Israel is preparing to colonize Hungary. I really hope, this congress will ask the right questions. Today, there was a small but loud demonstration held in Budapest, against "bolshevism and Zionism", of course organized by the country's 3rd largest (openly antisemitic) parliamentary party, JOBBIK.
9. Jews should leave Hungary
C   (05.05.13)
Hungary was always fascistic and antisemitic. There is no future for Jews in Hungary.
10. Hungary....from hunger.
Koose E Mack ,   NY NY   (05.05.13)
Like most Eastern Europeans, the Hungarians are born anti semites. A minority of them are able to overcome centuries of inbred institutionalized hatred of Jews, but most are not intelligent enough to do so. Too Bad Hitler and The Stalinists didn't level all of Hungary to the ground.
11. #8 ,...
split ,   US   (05.07.13)
Stop eating garlic and get yourself nose job done ,...
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