Hungary’s Anti-Semitic Party Gains Foothold

[Olmstein]

I heard about this on Public radio's "The World" tonight, it was mentioned briefly by a German journalist, but they didn't go into details. Why isn't the MSM in the US reporting on this?


BUDAPEST, Hungary - A group with fascist, anti-semitic and anti-Gypsy views has gained political prominence in Hungary for the first time since the end of World War II.

The group's political rise comes as Europe witnesses rising anti-semitism.

Swearing-In the Hungarian Guard

On October 21, 2007, hundreds of men dressed in black pants and vests with white shirts took their place in the main square in downtown Budapest.

It was a proud moment for 29-year-old Gabor Vona. He started the group known as the Hungarian Guard three months earlier with 56 members.

"I wanted to give people something to belong to, to give them an identity, to give them something they could be proud of," he said.

Some 600 people will join the group May 2, pledging to defend the nation.

"We've received more than 5,000 applications from people wanting to join, but we have yet to induct them officially in the group," Vona added.

Controversial Flag

Standing in military formation, each new member proudly wore a hat bearing the red and white striped Arpad flag.

The emblem was the same symbol used by the Hungarian Arrow Cross, a Nazi political party that helped kill Hungarian Jews at the end of World War II.

Six hundred thousand Jews were killed in Hungary-- 20,000 of them shot and dumped into the river, Danube. Today, a memorial of shoes lines an area along the river to remember the horrific act.

But more than 60 years after the Holocaust, the Jews in Hungary face an uncertain future.

Hungarian Jews Worry About Future

Rabbi Alfred Schoner watched the 2007 ceremony fom his home in the suburbs of Budapest.

"I am not afraid, but I know many older Hungarian Jews who survived the Holocaust or whose family members were taken and killed in Auschwitz," Schoner said. "They are afraid when they see this group."

Fast forward to April 11, 2010 -- national election day in Hungary -- when the country's ruling Socialist government was trounced by a center-right party.

"There will be a big change," Victor Orban, president of Fidesz, claimed. "The country needs this and is ready for it."

Far Right Wins Parliament Seats

But the more dramatic headline was what happened with Gabor Vona. Not only did he start the Hungarian Guard, he also started a far-right political party -- and thousands of Hungarians voted for that party, giving him a strong third-place finish.

Vona launched the Movement for a Better Hungary, or Jobbik, in 2003. CBN News spoke to him shortly after he founded the group.

"Things are getting really bad. The country is crumbling," he said then.

The global recession hit Hungary hard. Unemployment is in double digits. And there's growing frustration that life hasn't gotten better since the collapse of Communism.

Blame The Jews, Gypsy

Vona's Jobbik party seized on the national anger by blaming the Jewish and Gypsy communities for the economic downturn.

"This is a known historical formula," Schoner said. "Every time there's an economic problem, they are looking for scapegoats, someone who is responsible for the country's problems."

And it worked, giving Jobbik 47 seats in parliament-- a first for a far-right extremist party.

A leading Hungarian Jewish group said the vote was the first time that a "movement pursuing openly anti-Semitic policies had taken a step to power since the Nazi era."

In the meantime, Jobbik maintains close ties with the Hungarian Guard. The Guard was recently banned by a court, but returned under a new name.

During the election campaign Vona said he'd use the Guard's influence to police Hungary's Gypsy minority.

He has also promised to revive the disbanded national police force that deported hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews to German concentration camps.

For now, he and Jobbik party members look forward to the opening of parliament. They've told supporters that they plan on wearing their black paramilitary fatigues to the event.

I thought I'd save Gaillo the trouble (http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2010/April/Hungarys-Anti-Semitic-Anti-Gypsy-Party-Gains-Foothold/)

[Olmstein]

From Spiegel:

The Monster at Our Door'
Hungary Prepares for Shift in Power

Opposition leader Viktor Orban, who spurred the populist politics that have led to the rise of the far-right in Hungary, believes his party is set to win a two-thirds majority after Sunday's parliamentary elections. But it is the right-wing extremist Jobbik party that is setting the hateful tone of the campaign.

The state authorities have their backs up against the wall in front of St. Stephen's Basilica in Budapest. Three police officers, positioned in the shadow of an Art Nouveau palace, watch motionlessly as Hungary's National Front marches before their eyes.

Members of citizens' militias and neo-Nazi groups have taken over patrolling the streets on this day. In combat boots, camouflage or black military uniforms, they form human chains and divide the crowd.

Fifty thousand people have gathered in front of a speaker's platform. An easterly wind rattles the flags -- red and white striped, much like the armbands worn by members of Hungary's fascist Arrow Cross Party during World War II. The sound of speakers preaching nationalist beliefs reverberates from the loudspeakers.

"Hungary belongs to the Hungarians," the crowd hears. One speaker claims that Israeli investors and their local agents are in the process of buying up the country with its 10 million inhabitants. The speaker argues that the government doesn't care where the money comes from and that they're letting these people "buy Hungary up." The currently governing Socialists, another speaker warns, will be "obliterated from the face of the Earth" and Roma will be encouraged to emigrate.

"They should leave," the crowd chants in unison. "They should leave."

It's election campaign time in Budapest, the peak of the political hunting season, and members of Jobbik, the "Movement for a Better Hungary" founded in 2003, aren't pulling any punches. The party won nearly 15 percent of votes in elections for the European Parliament last year, and is gearing up for the first round of voting in Hungary's next national parliamentary elections on Sunday. The first round will determine party lists, and Jobbik wants to make gains.

'Commotion over the Holocaust'

Polls show the far right-wing party, led by Gábor Vona, almost neck and neck with the left-leaning Socialist Party. Young and nationalistic Jobbik wants Hungary, a European Union member, to abolish its Foreign Ministry, tackle "Gypsy crime" and replace all the vexing "commotion over the Holocaust" with more contemporary topics such as overdue battles against the criminal political caste, international high finance and the disgraceful 1920 Treaty of Trianon, which spelled the end of Greater Hungary. "On April 11, we must bang on the table," Vona says. "And the world will tremble."

Jobbik's rowdies make the late Jörg Haider and his Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) sound like a harmless bunch of choirboys in retrospect. The FPÖ's entrance into a coalition government in 2000 brought Austria months of diplomatic ostracism from most other EU countries. It remains to be seen whether Hungary's political parties learned anything from the Austrian lesson.

"The monster at our door" is threatening to demolish the inner workings of Hungarian democracy, warns Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai, who is asking the country's moderate parties to close ranks against the extremists. But Bajnai and the Hungarian Socialist Party, the country's strongest political force since the fall of Communism, are as good as invisible in this election. The same goes for conservatives from the Fidesz party under former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, 46.

Orbán, today leader of the opposition, looks likely to achieve a two-thirds majority in parliament. To keep from putting that election victory at risk, Orbán has avoided making any clear statements to the people, instead playing the role of a statesman in waiting and leaving the stage to the right-wing extremists.

The spectacle being put on by the extremists is visible everywhere -- even in broad daylight. But what is most striking is that it is happening in the middle of the capital of a country once known as the "happiest barracks in the camp" of the Eastern bloc, a place that produced reformist politicians who shook Europe's post-war order with the opening of the Iron Curtain in 1989 -- a first big step toward a reunited, democratic Europe.

'This Is Not What We Fought For'

Chants of "Jewish pig, Jewish pig" now sound from the bank of the Danube River, directed toward a monument to poet Sándor Petöfi, an icon of Hungarian freedom, where Budapest Mayor Gábor Demszky has positioned himself with the intention of giving a speech. Police are having to protect Demszky from Jobbik supporters and passersby, who shout: "Into the Danube with you!" Two young men raise their right arms in a Nazi salute and a shout goes up, first tentatively, then louder: "To the concentration camp, to the concentration camp."

Demszky has been mayor of Budapest for 20 years. He's a former dissident and a dyed-in-the-wool liberal. Now he stands between the Chain Bridge and the Parliament building, not far from the place where members of the Arrow Cross Party shot thousands of Jews and dumped their bodies into the Danube in the last winter of World War II. Demszky struggles for words: "This is not what we fought for," he calls out to the mob, "just to have a socialist dictatorship replaced by a National Socialist one!"

Things haven't gone quite that far yet -- even if the Hungarian capital has lately heard open murmurings again about "Jewdapest" being controlled by non-Christian liberals, media and profit-seekers. And even if the magazine Barikád was allowed to print a photomontage on its cover showing Benedictine monk and local patron St. Gellért atop the Budapest hill named after him, brandishing a seven-branched, menorah-like candelabra over the city instead of a cross.

More at link (http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,687921,00.html)

[Olmstein]

I wonder what this party proposes to do about wresting control of Hungary's economy from the central bankers. To me, that's where the rubber meets the road.

[LuckyStrike]

LOL anti semitic...... as if those ashkenazi's had a drop of Shemitic blood.

[Ponce]

Nordic? I am with you on that .........but.......if the ten perceng of the real ones must go... to get rid of the ninety percent false ones.......then let it be.

[LuckyStrike]

Nordic? I am with you on that .........but.......if the ten perceng of the real ones must go... to get rid of the ninety percent false ones.......then let it be.


Even the 10% are just Edomites who still aren't descended from Shem.

[Olmstein]

OK, I understand this political movement is portrayed poorly by the European media, and ignored by the American media. I didn't post these articles to put this political movement in a bad light. I actually agree with them, from what I can find of their positions. I see this movement as comparable to the BNP in the UK, and nationalist/States Rights movements in the US. Am I way off base here?

I'm just surprised that there doesn't seem to be more interest by the members of this forum, only 2 people commented here. I would think this forum would have common cause with this movement. This political party is out there trying to take action in the real world, not just arguing on the internet.

[Book]

I would think this forum would have common cause with this movement. This political party is out there trying to take action in the real world, not just arguing on the internet.


Makes more sense to expend energy locally. ZOG is right here.

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