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In the Holocaust Memorial Day debate in Parliament, I spoke about contemporary antisemitic threats, including Hungary's Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán.
I've now received an angry letter from the Hungarian ambassador, asking for details.
Here's my reply & a thread on the details:
I've now received an angry letter from the Hungarian ambassador, asking for details.
Here's my reply & a thread on the details:
1. Orbán praises Hitler's fascist allies, who helped the Nazis murder Jewish people in extermination camps. https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/hungarian-jewish-groups-slam-pm-for-praising-hitler-ally-1.5488894
2. Spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories about a Holocaust survivor, Orbán writes: "Europe must not succumb to the Soros network".
His cultural commissioner says: "Europe has become the gas chamber of George Soros... the liberal Führer" https://www.barrons.com/articles/hungary-culture-head-called-out-for-holocaust-memory-abuse-01606646712
His cultural commissioner says: "Europe has become the gas chamber of George Soros... the liberal Führer" https://www.barrons.com/articles/hungary-culture-head-called-out-for-holocaust-memory-abuse-01606646712
3. Orbán fans the flames of antisemitic propaganda, then refuses to condemn it, while rehabilitating Hungarian fascists who colluded with Hitler.
This report from the Times was chilling: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jews-remain-silent-as-antisemitism-spreads-in-orban-s-hungary-s29vsmdrs
This report from the Times was chilling: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jews-remain-silent-as-antisemitism-spreads-in-orban-s-hungary-s29vsmdrs
4. Orbán removes Jewish Nobel Prize winners from the Hungarian curriculum in a nod to antisemites and Holocaust revisionists. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/holocaust-hungary-viktor-orban
5. The editor of the Holocaust Remembrance Project on Hungary: 'State-appointed “historians” have relativized the horrors of the Holocaust, and often depict their own people as victims of what they say was Jewish-supported communism.' https://www.politico.eu/article/viktor-orban-anti-semitism-problem-hungary-jews/
6. Orbán's antisemitism is intimately tied to his racist targeting of migrants.
As I said in my Holocaust Memorial Day speech, none of us are safe until all of us are safe. We must find safety in solidarity against the bigots. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/22/17493070/hungary-stop-soros-orban
As I said in my Holocaust Memorial Day speech, none of us are safe until all of us are safe. We must find safety in solidarity against the bigots. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/22/17493070/hungary-stop-soros-orban
