While Pope Francis’ visit to Budapest yesterday received ample attention from mainstream media outlets, the sensationalists, once again, couldn’t resist a negative take.
Hungary has the largest Jewish community in central Europe, and its members can walk down the street safely and its institutions are working well.
In response to the outcry against its latest coverage of Hungary, DW offers a lame and completely unacceptable response.
The prime minister addressed a letter to Ronald S. Lauder, President of the World Jewish Congress, in tribute to his work preserving the memory of Holocaust victims.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has highlighted how Martin Schulz "has been attacking Hungary for years" for defending its borders and refusing to accept migrants.
An alliance of left-liberal opposition parties have jointly nominated a candidate with a deeply disturbing history of anti-Semitism to win this weekend’s ballot.
Several Jewish leaders have slammed László Bíró, a joint candidate of the opposition, for his anti-Semitic and racist statements.
Sometimes the silence carries greater significance than the stories that get published. This silence here is an appalling example of the liberal mainstream and its media.
“It cannot be tolerated,” according to a well-known government critic, commenting on the opposition’s choice of candidate, “that a man who has made such anti-Semitic and anti-Roma statements, like Bíró, can enter an election with the support of parties that call themselves anti-racist, democratic and tolerant.”
In the run-up to a by-election to fill a parliamentary seat for a constituency in northern Hungary, the so-called “democratic” opposition jointly nominated a far-right Jobbik candidate with a long history of stomach-turning, anti-Semitic and anti-Roma statements. Here’s the shameful story in brief.
Hungarian MEPs Tamás Deutsch and József Szájer point to the "alarming move" by Hungarian opposition parties to field a candidate who has made such offensive remarks.
Seit die Regierung von Premierminister Orbán im Jahr 2010 an die Macht kam, sind falsche Vorwürfe von Antisemitismus gegen Ungarn zu einem wiederkehrenden Thema in der Kommunikationstaktik unserer linksliberalen Kritiker geworden. Während dieser Trick in letzter Zeit etwas vernachlässigt wurde, da die Behauptungen immer lächerlicher wurden, scheint es nun, dass die Antisemitismus-Karte ein trauriges Comeback feiert.
Since Prime Minister Orbán’s government took power in 2010, false anti-Semitism allegations directed at Hungary have become a recurring theme in the communication tactics of our left-liberal critics. While this ploy had become a bit neglected recently, as the claims had grown more and more laughable, it now seems that the anti-Semitism card is making a woeful comeback.