Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 2013 (25. évfolyam, 1-50. szám)

2013-11-15 / 44. szám

EU Fundamental Rights Agency: Hungary Jews struggle with rising anti-Semitism Budapest (AFP) - Hungary’s Jewish community, one of the biggest in Europe, is struggling with a rise in anti-Semitism, according to recent surveys, even as Europe marks the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht. A report by the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) on Friday showed that anti-Semitism has got worse across Europe over the past five years, facilitated by social media and file-sharing websites. But it was Hungary, France and Belgium that reported the highest rates of anti-Semitism in the media and in political life, as well as vandalism and open hostility in the street, the study showed. The report was released ahead of the anniversary this weekend of the Night of Broken Glass pogrom, which saw Nazi thugs smash up Jewish businesses and synagogues throughout Germany in 1938. “Older Jews, Holocaust survivors and their children are afraid... Older people really don’t feel at ease,” Janos Gado, an editor with Hungarian Jewish newspaper Szombat, told AFP. Applications at the local branch of Israel’s immigration agency have hit a record high, he added. “Most people won’t emigrate unless the situation gets worse, but emigration does now get talked about,” said Gado, whose name has been listed on far-right websites alongside other prominent Jews. Ráhel Veisz, a Hungarian Jewish mother of two, told AFP: “Fm often sitting in a taxi or at a cafe and suddenly overhear how the Jews are running the country and so on.” A study by András Kovács from Budapest’s Central European University showed 24 percent of people in Hungary had anti-Semitic prejudices in 2011, up from 10-15 percent over the previous 20 years. Kovács pinned much of the blame on the openly anti-Semitic Jobbik party, which won 17 percent of the vote in 2010 elections. One of its deputies even called in parliament for a list of Jews to be drawn up for “national security reasons”. Hungary, which lost some 600,000 Jews during the Holocaust, still has a 120,000-strong community but anti-Semitic incidents have been on the rise recently. In the past two years, Hungary’s chief rabbi was verbally abused on a Budapest street, anti-Semitic chants were heard at a football match against Israel and pig’s trotters were placed on a statue of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Budapest Jews in World War II. Still, there is a silver lining: in parallel with the hostility, local Jews say their community is as vibrant as ever, with a growing number of synagogues and a wealth of Jewish cultural events. “The anti-Semitic renaissance is going hand in hand with a Jewish renaissance,” said Gado. news.yahoo.com Statement of the Hungarian Goverment Regarding FRA’s Anti-Semitism report Deputy State Secretary and Head of the Hungarian International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) delegation, Gergely Pröhle stated that FRA’s report on anti-Semitism, published on Friday, raises several questions with relation to methodology, strongly questioning its representative nature. The appendix to the report also explains some of these flaws, he added, such as on page 70, stating “this methodology is unable to deliver a random probability sample fulfilling the statistical criteria for representativeness”; “the chosen survey mode is likely to have excluded some eligible members of the target population”. However, Mr Pröhle emphasised: “since Hungary has been home to Hungarians, Jews, Germans, Slovaks and many other nationalities for centuries, if only a single individual lives in fear because of their nationality, even that is too much.” This cannot be put into perspective even by the fact that the report shows a much higher ratio of assaults in other countries, making it a universal European phenomenon, he pointed out. Data collection occurred in the autumn of 2012, and having recognised the seriousness of the situation, the Hungarian Government has since brought several important decisions designed to monitor and combat anti-Semitic phenomena, the most important being a cooperation agreement with the Action and Protec­tion Foundation (TEV) in the infferests of gaining a detailed understanding of anti-Semitic phenomena. The Foundation’s reports have been published on a monthly basis since July. In addition, legislation has been introduced to regulate and sanction football hooliganism and anti- Semitic political statements (the related part of the Fourth Amendment, the stricter House Rules and making Holocaust denial a crimi­nal offence). Several high-level political statements have been made on the issue, such as Prime Minister Viktor Orbán speak­ing at the meeting of the World Jewish Congress, Deputy Prime Minister Tibor Navracsics and Minister of Foreign Affairs János Martonyi at the Tom Lantos Con­ference, etc. Deputy State Secretary Pröhle stated that the Holocaust Memo­rial Year and the 2015 presidency of the IHRA are also designed to enable all Hungarian compatriots of Jewish origin, who are also members of Europe’s third larg­est Jewish community, to feel at home in Hungary. 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