Simon Wiesenthal Center instructed the Hungarian government to investigate Jobbik "Iranian relations

[Szegedist]

Simon Samuels, the Wiesenthal Centre's Director for International Relations, and Abraham Cooper, the vice president of the American Center have been touring Hungary since Monday. They met several Hungarian politicians and members of government including Minister of Justice Tibor Navracsics to discuss Jobbik alleged Iranian relations writes Népszabadság.

The two high-ranking leaders of the Simon Wiesenthal Center are demanding that the Hungarian and the European Parliament investigate Jobbik suspicious Iranian links.

"We call upon Martin Schultz, the President of the European Parliament to investigate Jobbik three EU representatives' Iranian relations said the leaders of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Simon Samuels and Abraham Cooper held a public lecture in Faith Park in Budapest Wednesday evening about the difficulties of finding and prosecuting Nazi war criminals...

http://www.hungarianambiance.com/2013/03/simon-wiesenthal-center-instructed.html

[Baluarte]

Wow Szeg, it seems your country must be doing something right if International Jewry took the time to set up a commission to go threaten the government in Budapest.

[Szegedist]

Heh it's not the first time

[Baluarte]

I've never actually taken the time to congratulate the Hungarian government for being the only one in the European Union to not pander to Zion, to reject the manipulation of the IMF and to defend tradition.

Cheers and best wishes.

[Szegedist]

The current government is so-so. I welcome some of their changes, while others are very kosher, and sometimes hypocritical. I think they are populists, who only really care about their own power. They know what works in Hungary, nationalist and conservative rhetoric.


It is sad that many have fallen for it. I know people who think like nationalists but they are Fidesz supporters.

[Szegedist]

An American Jewish organizational leader met with Hungarian political leaders to express concern about growing anti-Semitism in the country.

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, and Simon Samuels, head of the Paris office of the Wiesenthal Center, met in Budapest with Hungarian Deputy Foreign Minister Zsolt Németh and Justice Minister Tibor Navracsics.

“My presence here in Budapest is to deliver a message of concern over the increasing anti-Semitism in Hungary,” Cooper told JTA. He said a number of issues triggered his visit, among them a lack of progress on bringing Hungarian Nazi war criminal László Csatáry, 98, to justice. Csatáry is currently under house arrest in Budapest.

Navracsics told Cooper on Wednesday that he will urge the public prosecutor to move swiftly to commence the Csatáry trial for complicity in the murder of 12,000-15,700 Jews in 1944 in the town Kassa.

“We are on the same side of the issue,” Navracsics said during a meeting in Budapest.

“We are deeply concerned, particularly because of Csatáry’s advanced age, that the trial begin without delay,” Cooper said in an interview. “This case is critical to Hungary’s collective memory, and it would be a betrayal of this sadist’s Jewish victims to allow the biological clock to decide his fate.”
Efraim Zuroff, head of the Jerusalem Wiesenthal Office, found Csatáry living in Budapest after being stripped of his Canadian citizenship and deported from Canada 15 years ago.

“There is a unique situation in Hungary in terms of anti-Semitism,” Cooper said. “Anti-Semitism here is due to the revisionism of collective memory in terms of World War II.”
After a private meeting Tuesday with Peter Feldmajer, president of the Hungarian Jewish Community, Cooper said, “The main issue for us is the safety of the Jews and the respect for the Jewish community here.”

Cooper criticized the center-right Hungarian government, saying, “There is not enough of a tough line concerning the extremists.”

During talks with Hungarian politicians, Cooper said he encouraged them to “draw a much tougher line between themselves and the extremists.”


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