Leader of anti-Semitic Hungarian political party discovers he’s Jewish

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Csanad Szegedi discovering he’s Jewish—good for the Jews?

My knee-jerk reaction is ask why any Jew would want to call him a fellow MOT. On the other hand, maybe Szegedi can make a change in the Jobbik Party as a result of this revelation.

Moreover, this story is not as surprising as it seems at first blush. History is replete with just anti-Semites ignorant of their own Jewishness and also closet Jews whose anti-Semitism is motivated by a hatred of their own people.