George Soros’ charitable foundations announced Tuesday that they are leaving Hungary, the New York Times reported. The Hungarian billionaire and philanthropist has been the target of sustained anti-Semitic rhetoric by Hungary’s Prime Minister, Victor Orban. Orban, an avowed nationalist and critic of Western Europe’s embrace of refugees, blamed Soros for much of the country’s economic…
Viktor Orban, leader of Hungary’s far-right Fidesz party was reelected prime minster after his party won a supermajority in Hungary’s parliament, the Washington Post reported. The vote was widely seen as a referendum on the status of democracy in Europe, especially with Orban already having been in power for two terms. Now, with two-thirds of…
(JTA) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban used language that some critics have said has anti-Semitic undertones at a rally three weeks before he seeks re-election for a third term. Speaking Thursday in Budapest, Orban harshly criticized proponents of immigration. He also called out George Soros, the Hungary-born Jewish financier and philanthropist, and those who…
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – U.S. financier George Soros on Monday denounced a Hungarian government campaign against him as “distortions and lies” designed to create a false external enemy. Soros, 86, is a Hungarian-born Jew whose longtime support for liberal and open-border values in eastern Europe have put him at odds with right-wing nationalists, in particular the…
In the former Communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, established mainstream Jewish groups are increasingly worried that Chabad, the international Hasidic movement, is allying itself with authoritarian governments. In countries from Hungary to Russia, they say, Chabad is at times playing down anti-Semitism in a bid to compete with local Jewish groups and win…
The Hungarian government announced early Thursday plans for a national consultation on what it alleges is Hungarian-born Jewish financier George Soros’ plan to bring a million migrants into Europe. Soros has been the target of constant criticism from the authorities in Budapest, who say that the 87-year old philanthropist is trying to destabilize their country,…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went to Budapest earlier this week and got out of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán a promise that, to paraphrase Susan Sontag, never again will Hungarians be allowed to kill Jews in the 1940s. The government of Hungary committed a “sin” when “it did not protect its citizens of Jewish…
(JTA) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban vowed to protect religious freedoms in his country during a talk with foreign rabbis visiting for the opening of a large kosher slaughterhouse for geese. Orban, whose right-wing government is currently under heavy criticism by the Mazsihisz umbrella group of Hungarian Jewish communities for its campaign against the…
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