The vice president of Hungary\’s ultranationalist Jobbik Party filed a complaint with police against Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff for making \”false statements.\”
Following recent revelations that he has Jewish ancestors, a far-right Hungarian politician reportedly will visit Auschwitz.
Milan\’s Jewish community has condemned a meeting of European extreme right-wing movements due to be held at a Milan hotel Friday and Saturday.
Days after one of his colleagues admitted to having Jewish roots, a far-right Hungarian politician challenged the country\’s Jewish communal leader to a debate.
The European Union for Progressive Judaism and Hungary’s two Reform congregations took their case against Hungary’s new law on religion to the European Court of Human Rights in The Hague.
Hungarian Jews urged the government to take four anti-Semitic authors off the national high school curriculum.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel has renounced a Hungarian state award he received in 2004 in protest against what he said was a \”whitewashing\” of the role of former Hungarian governments in the deportation of Jews during World War Two.
A Holocaust memorial monument in the southwest of Hungary was desecrated.
Hungary’s Medical Research Council requested an investigation of a company that tested a politician of the extremist right-wing Jobbik party for Jewish or Roma heritage, according to science journal Nature.
Hungarian Jewish leaders issued a strongly worded protest against a speech by a far-right lawmaker who claimed that Jews had been implicated in a notorious blood libel case in northern Hungary 130 years ago.
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