Hungarian official tells Jewish Org to 'mind its own business' over antisemitism

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Amazing how 2 out of 3 comments in here are about me while I hadn't even seen the news item or the thread yet. So many lovers, so little time!

Are you seriously going to claim you were unaware that Orban's government is full of people like this?

All I'm saying is that two out of three people posting here were talking about me as if I had already made some sort of comment on it, which I hadn't.

My actual opinion: I'm conflicted on this one. I think the Hungarian government is fervently pro-Israel and a shining example to the rest of Europe in this and in many other regards. What's more, Soros is actually historically Hungarian and has gone to great lengths to affect its politics and civil society. Criticism of him is legitimate and only to be expected, regardless of what you think about his stances. I would agree with most of these criticisms.

However, it is also true that Soros' name is used a dogwhistle, and the Pittsburgh attack as well as developments in the Netherlands have taught me to take far-right antisemitism a lot more seriously than I did before. A recent campaign video of a Dutch political party that included a picture of Soros for two seconds with the spoken text "international networks" had a YouTube comment section that might as well have been Stormfront. So I do wish that right-wing parties would tone it down a little when it comes to Soros: if they don't, too many people feel as if their ideas about Jews are being confirmed by authoritative actos (which political parties are). On the one hand, this is a little unfair, as Soros is horrible and deserves all the criticism, but on the other hand one cannot ignore the extent to which criticism of Soros in many cases isn't just intended as criticism of Soros.

So I don't know this Jewish organization and its motives, but I'm not necessarily unsympathetic to their message to the Hungarian government, though I treat it with some skepticism (how do Fidesz' campaigns affect British Jews?).

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