Radnóti March 2013

The 5th Radnóti March: remember and remind

Civilians initiated again, for the fourth time, a ~17-kilometre rally on Saturday, the 9th November 2013 in Budapest from Parcel 298 of the cemetery "Új köztemető"^(a) to the Danube.

• in remembrance of the Night of Broken Glass⁽¹⁾ (a.k.a. Reichskristallnacht), a pogrom or series of attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and in parts of Austria on the 9-10 November 1938; 
• on the occasion of the International Day Against Fascism and Antisemitism⁽²⁾;
• in remembrance of the Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti⁽³⁾, murdered by Hungarian Nazis (Arrow-Crossers ⁽⁴⁾) in fall 1944 ⁽⁵⁾;
• to draw attention to the scandal of Parcel 298^(a);
• to draw attention to the fact that Hungarians have thrown away democracy in 2010⁽⁶⁾in favour of the omnipotence of the far-right political power Fidesz (cooperating with Jobbik behind the scenes);
• to draw attention to the fact that Hungary has been breaking her own law including the Paris Peace Treaty⁽⁷⁾ for more than 20 years.

A group of civilians will march throughout the whole way. The same rally took place also the last two years, i.e. on the 9th November 2010, 2011 and 2012 while the date of the first rally was 23 October 2009. The first two rallies ended at the Shoes, however later the route was extended to the house where Radnóti lived for a while. Like last year, the marchers will lay a wreath at the Plaque of the poet^(d). This year the  route can't include the Shoes because of the restoring the Kossuth square to the condition of the Horthy era.

Cemetery maps can be found here: http://antifa-hungary.blogspot.com/2010/10/radnoti-march-2009-cemetery-maps.html
The route map with stations is here: http://antifa-hungary.blogspot.hu/2013/11/5-radnoti-menet-2013-program-es-utvonal.html

The organizers ask and will be thankful for any kind of help .

Contact:

Stations of the march with (planned) times:

• Parcel 298 of the Cemetery "Új köztemető"^(a), Address: Budapest X., Kozma street 8. - Start time: 09:30
• Halting-place at the crossing of Száraz street and Szlávy street: ~11:25 -11:40
• Halting-place at the crossing of Kőbányai street and Kőrösi Csoma Sándor street : ~12:05 -12:35
• Halting-place at the crossing of Kőbányai street and Könyves Kálmán blvd: ~13:00-13:30
• Plaque Little Warsaw^(b), Address: Budapest VIII., Népszínház street 46: ~14:00-15:00
• Monument of Hungarian Jewish inmates of forced labour camps^(c), Address: Budapest VII., Bethlen Gábor tér 2: ~15:30-16:30
• Plaque of Ferenc Koszorús^(d), Address: Budapest VII., Károly blvd 3: ~17:10-17:55
• Halting-place at the crossing of  Bajcsy-Zs. street és Báthory street: ~18:20-18:30
• Plaque of Radnóti Miklós^(d), Address: Budapest XIII., Pozsonyi street 1. Final station: ~18:55-20:15

For details of previous marches see:

• 2012: http://antifa-hungary.blogspot.com/2012/10/radnoti-march-2012.html
• 2011: http://antifa-hungary.blogspot.hu/2011/10/radnoti-march-2011.html
• 2010: http://antifa-hungary.blogspot.hu/2010/11/radnoti-march-2010.html
• 2009: http://antifa-hungary.blogspot.hu/2010/10/radnoti-march-2009-summary.html

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Sources:
(1) Night of Broken Glass: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht
(2) International Day Against Fascism and Antisemitism
http://www.unitedagainstracism.org/pages/infon9_03.htm
http://www.unitedagainstracism.org/pages/underframeInternationalDayAgainstFascism.htm#99
(3) Miklós Radnóti: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikl%C3%B3s_Radn%C3%B3ti At this link you may find further links pointing to English translations of some of Radnóti's poems.
(4) Arrow-cross: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_Cross;
(5) Although the generally accepted date of Radnóti's execution in Abda is 9 November 1944,⁽³⁾ this has recently been questioned by Tamás Csapody, a jurist, sociologist, expert in bioethics and behavioural sciences who spent many years with analysing documents of the death march of the inmates of the Bor labour camp. In his book (Csapody Tamás: Bori munkaszolgálatosok. Fejezetek a bori munkaszolgálat történetéből. Budapest, 2011, Vince Kiadó; for a summary in English see: http://bhiweb.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/summary2011-11-09.pdf). Csapody argues that the exact date of the execution is, as yet, unknown and it could happen sometimes between early November 1944 and February 1945. Nevertheless we believe that on 9 November, the International Day Against Fascism and Antisemitism it is appropriate to commemorate Milkós Radnóti, a victim of these horrific ideas irrespective of the fact whether this was the day of his death or not.
(6) 2010. Hungary: democracy is over, http://antifa-hungary.blogspot.com/2010/05/hungarian-parliamentary-election-2010.html
(7) Treaty of peace with Hungary, signed at Paris, on 10 February 1947: http://antifa-hungary.blogspot.com/2011/10/paris-peace-treaty-1947.htm
(a) The parcel 298 is the spot of the scandal: mass murderers (Hungarian Nazis - Arrow-Crossers) are buried here and their graves have been handled by various governments since about 20 years like the those of national heroes, funded by state money. The scandalous story is documented (unfortunately, only in Hungarian) here: http://298.nolblog.hu. For some information in English see: Thomas Ország-Land: How the Murderer of a Poet Became a Hero in Hungary, Outlook, Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine, Nov./Dec. 2009, p.15: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/outlook/current_issue/Nov-Dec%2009/Holocaust%20Lit.pdf
(b) Memory of the (Little) Ghetto uprising; Photos about the spot: http://www.photoblog.com/utazo/2008/11/13/
(c) A memorial of the Jews who lost their lives in World War II as Hungarian inmates of forced labour camps; more in Hungarian: http://www.szoborlap.hu/7351_a_zsido_munkaszolgalatosok_emlekmuve_budapest_baraz_tamas_2009.html
(d) Ferenc Koszorús was an officer of the Hungarian army who stopped the deportation of Jews in Budapest with his troupes on the 9th July 1944; more in Hungarian: http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koszor%C3%BAs_Ferenc
(e) Shoes on the Danube Promenade: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoes_on_the_Danube_Promenade
(f) Miklós Radnóti plaque: http://hu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=F%E1jl:Mikl%F3s_Radn%F3ti_plaque_Bp13_Pozsonyi1.jpg&filetimestamp=20110221180105

5. Radnóti Menet, 2013 - program és útvonal

5th Radnóti March, 2013 - route and programme

5. Radnóti Menet

5th Radnóti March

2013. november 9. (szombat)

9th November 2013

Az emlékeztető és figyelemfelhívó menet állomáshelyei

útszakaszok(km) / menetidő(kb) / érkezési időpontok(kb.)

The route with the stations and timetable

A: Újköztemető, 298-as parcella
      Budapest X., Kozma utca 8.
      8:30-9:00 a temető főbejáratánál szervezői egyeztetés;
      9:00-9:30 a főbejárattól a 298-as parcelláig történő bejutás(2km);
                (ez nem a Menet része, mindenki egyénileg, lehetőleg járművel oldja meg.)
      10:00 a Menet indul a 298-as parcellától.

B: P0 pihenő
      Száraz u. és Szlávy u. találkozása
      ~2,8 km / ~0h 40' / ~11:25

C: P1 pihenő
      Kőbányai út és Kőrösi Csoma S. út találkozása
      ~1,6 km / ~0h 25' / ~12:05

D: P2 pihenő
      Kőbányai út és Könyves Kálmán körút kereszteződése
      ~1,8 km / ~0h 25' / ~13:00

E: Kis Varsó emléktábla 
      Budapest VIII., Népszínház utca 46.
      ~2,2 km / ~0h 30' / ~14:00

F: Magyar Zsidó Munkaszolgálatosok Emlékműve
      Budapest VII., Bethlen Gábor tér 2.
      ~1,4 km / ~0h 30' / ~15:30

G: Koszorús Ferenc emléktáblája
      Budapest VII., Károly körút 3.
      ~1,9 km / ~0h 40' / ~17:10

H: Pihenő
      V., Bajcsy-Zs. út és Báthory u kereszteződése
      ~1,3 km / ~0h 25' / ~18:20

I: Radnóti Emléktábla
      Budapest XIII., Pozsonyi út 1.
      ~1,2 km / ~0h 25' / ~18:55

A táv teljes hossza: ~16,2 km, nettó gyaloglási időtartama: ~ 5 óra

A fenti km- ill. idő-adatokat az aktuális időjárási, ill. közlekedési, esetleg egyéb rendkívüli körülmények befolyásolhatják.

The printable version of the above list is here: https://app.box.com/s/buydedyngat9znon757y

A teljes, nyomtatható útvonaltérkép állomáshelyekkel:
Full printable route map with stations and timetable:

5. Radnóti Menet, 2013. november 9.
Útvonal és állomáshelyek

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Források:
(1) Az esemény információs központja a Kohányi Társaság nyitott facebook oldala (bejelentkezés nélkül is olvasható): http://www.facebook.com/events/194562224013579/
(2) Ezen a webhelyen lévő kapcsolódó információk:
Magyarul: http://antifa-hungary.blogspot.hu/search/label/Radn%C3%B3ti%20Menet%202013
Angolul / in English: http://antifa-hungary.blogspot.hu/search/label/Radn%C3%B3ti%20March%28EN%29
Németül / auf Deutsch: http://antifa-hungary.blogspot.hu/search/label/Radn%C3%B3ti%20Marsch%28DE%29
(3) A fenti cikkünk a nyilvánosan elérhető, nyomtatható https://app.box.com/s/buydedyngat9znon757y PDF fájl HTML-re átszerkesztett változata.
A fenti térképet innen vettük át: https://app.box.com/s/xhu0pfu4e8tqeyxwq75r/1/1199336253
Részletesebb - letölthető, kinyomtatható - térképek: https://app.box.com/s/xhu0pfu4e8tqeyxwq75r/1/1199336253

9 November 2012

9th November
International Day against Fascism and Antisemitism

November 9. a Fasizmus és Antiszemitizmus Elleni Küzdelem Nemzetközi Napja.

ResponsAbility - It's in your hands⁽¹⁾

NEVER AGAIN! 9 November 1938 marked the beginning of the “Kristallnacht” pogrom and it is seen today as the symbolic beginning of the Holocaust, the policy of systematically murdering millions of people. It reminds us that such terrible things did not start with deportations and concentration camps, but developed step by step.

Nazi propaganda and hate speech against Jews and laws depriving Jewish citizens of their rights – as happened with the ‘Nuremberg Laws’ which, among other things, stripped German Jews of their citizenship – were the first steps which eventually culminated in violence and pogroms. We must be aware that history is used to being repeated and the Holocaust happened with the silent acceptance and support of the broad majority. Nowadays, right-wing extremism is a rising force on the entire continent. Hate crimes are frequent realities, extreme right-wing parties are elected into parliaments and xenophobic propaganda is becoming legitimate.

On 9 November 1938, nazi Germany started a pogrom against Jewish people. SA Storm Troopers and civilians destroyed more than 8000 Jewish homes and shops, set synagogues on fire, imprisoned, injured and killed Jews all across the country. Pieces of broken windows covering the streets in many German cities gave rise to the name “Kristallnacht” which freely translated means the Night of Broken Glass.

The “Kristallnacht” pogrom is seen as the start of the systematic eradication of Jewish people which had started with the discrimination and exclusion of the German Jews since 1933 and which eventually led to the murder of approximately 6 million Jewish people and 5,5 million ‘enemies of the German state’: homosexuals, criminals and ‘asocial’ people, members of diverse religious communities, people with mental disabilities, political ‘offenders’ such as communists and socialists, Spanish republican refugees and minorities like Roma and Sinti among others.⁽²⁾

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Sources:
(1) http://unitedagainstracism.org/pages/underframeInternationalDayAgainstFascism.htm#MAT
(2) http://unitedagainstracism.org/pages/infon9_12.htm#2

Radnóti March 2012

The 4th Radnóti March: remember and remind

Civilians initiated again, for the fourth time, a ~17-kilometre rally on Friday, the 9th November 2012 in Budapest from Parcel 298 of the cemetery "Új köztemető"^(a) to the Danube.

• in remembrance of the Night of Broken Glass⁽¹⁾ (a.k.a. Reichskristallnacht), a pogrom or series of attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and in parts of Austria on the 9-10 November 1938; 
• on the occasion of the International Day Against Fascism and Antisemitism⁽²⁾;
• in remembrance of the Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti⁽³⁾, murdered by Hungarian Nazis (Arrow-Crossers ⁽⁴⁾) in fall 1944 ⁽⁵⁾;
• to draw attention to the scandal of Parcel 298^(a);
• to draw attention to the fact that Hungarians have thrown away democracy in 2010⁽⁶⁾in favour of the omnipotence of the far-right political power Fidesz (cooperating with Jobbik behind the scenes);
• to draw attention to the fact that Hungary has been breaking her own law including the Paris Peace Treaty⁽⁷⁾ for more than 20 years.

A group of civilians will march throughout the whole way. The same rally took place also the last two years, i.e. on the 9th November 2010 and 2011 while the date of the first rally was 23 October 2009. The first two rallies ended at the Shoes, however, in 2011, the route was extended to the house where Radnóti lived for a while. Like last year, the marchers will lay a wreath at the Plaque of the poet^(d).

Cemetery maps can be found here: http://antifa-hungary.blogspot.com/2010/10/radnoti-march-2009-cemetery-maps.html
The route map with stations is here: http://antifa-hungary.blogspot.hu/2012/10/radnoti-menet-2012-program-es-utvonal.html


The organizers ask and will be thankful for any kind of help .

Contact:

Stations of the march with (planned) times:

• Parcel 298 of the Cemetery "Új köztemető"^(a), Address: Budapest X., Kozma utca 8. - Start time: 10:00
• Halting-place at the crossing of Kőbányai út and Kőrösi Csoma Sándor út: ~11:30-12:00
• Halting-place at the crossing of Kőbányai út and Könyves Kálmán körút: ~12:30-13:00
• Plaque Little Warsaw^(b), Address: Budapest VIII., Népszínház utca 46: ~13:30-14:30
• Monument of Hungarian Jewish inmates of forced labour camps^(c), Address: Budapest VII., Bethlen Gábor tér 2: ~15:00-16:00
• Plaque of Ferenc Koszorús^(d), Address: Budapest VII., Károly körút 3: ~16:30-17:00
• Shoes on the Danube Promenade^(e), Address: V., Kossuth Lajos tér 4. ~17:30-18:00
• Plaque of Radnóti Miklós^(d), Address: Budapest XIII., Pozsonyi út 1. Final station: ~18:30-19:00

For details of previous marches see:

• 2011: http://antifa-hungary.blogspot.hu/2011/10/radnoti-march-2011.html
• 2010: http://antifa-hungary.blogspot.hu/2010/11/radnoti-march-2010.html
• 2009: http://antifa-hungary.blogspot.hu/2010/10/radnoti-march-2009-summary.html

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Sources:
(1) Night of Broken Glass: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht
(2) International Day Against Fascism and Antisemitism
http://www.unitedagainstracism.org/pages/infon9_11.htm
http://www.unitedagainstracism.org/pages/underframeInternationalDayAgainstFascism.htm#99
(3) Miklós Radnóti: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikl%C3%B3s_Radn%C3%B3ti At this link you may find further links pointing to English translations of some of Radnóti's poems.
(4) Arrow-cross: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_Cross;
(5) Although the generally accepted date of Radnóti's execution in Abda is 9 November 1944,⁽³⁾ this has recently been questioned by Tamás Csapody, a jurist, sociologist, expert in bioethics and behavioural sciences who spent many years with analysing documents of the death march of the inmates of the Bor labour camp. In his book (Csapody Tamás: Bori munkaszolgálatosok. Fejezetek a bori munkaszolgálat történetéből. Budapest, 2011, Vince Kiadó; for a summary in English see: http://bhiweb.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/summary2011-11-09.pdf). Csapody argues that the exact date of the execution is, as yet, unknown and it could happen sometimes between early November 1944 and February 1945. Nevertheless we believe that on 9 November, the International Day Against Fascism and Antisemitism it is appropriate to commemorate Milkós Radnóti, a victim of these horrific ideas irrespective of the fact whether this was the day of his death or not.
(6) 2010. Hungary: democracy is over, http://antifa-hungary.blogspot.com/2010/05/hungarian-parliamentary-election-2010.html
(7) Treaty of peace with Hungary, signed at Paris, on 10 February 1947: http://antifa-hungary.blogspot.com/2011/10/paris-peace-treaty-1947.htm

(a) The parcel 298 is the spot of the scandal: mass murderers (Hungarian Nazis - Arrow-Crossers) are buried here and their graves have been handled by various governments since about 20 years like the those of national heroes, funded by state money. The scandalous story is documented (unfortunately, only in Hungarian) here: http://298.nolblog.hu. For some information in English see: Thomas Ország-Land: How the Murderer of a Poet Became a Hero in Hungary, Outlook, Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine, Nov./Dec. 2009, p.15: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/outlook/current_issue/Nov-Dec%2009/Holocaust%20Lit.pdf
(b) Memory of the (Little) Ghetto uprising; Photos about the spot: http://www.photoblog.com/utazo/2008/11/13/
(c) A memorial of the Jews who lost their lives in World War II as Hungarian inmates of forced labour camps; more in Hungarian: http://www.szoborlap.hu/7351_a_zsido_munkaszolgalatosok_emlekmuve_budapest_baraz_tamas_2009.html
(d) Ferenc Koszorús was an officer of the Hungarian army who stopped the deportation of Jews in Budapest with his troupes on the 9th July 1944; more in Hungarian: http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koszor%C3%BAs_Ferenc
(e) Shoes on the Danube Promenade: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoes_on_the_Danube_Promenade
(f) Miklós Radnóti plaque: http://hu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=F%E1jl:Mikl%F3s_Radn%F3ti_plaque_Bp13_Pozsonyi1.jpg&filetimestamp=20110221180105

Radnóti Menet 2012 - program és útvonal

Radnóti March 2012 - route and programme

4. Radnóti Menet

4th Radnóti March

2012. november 9. (péntek)

9th November 2012

Az emlékeztető és figyelemfelhívó menet állomáshelyei

útszakaszok(km) / menetidő(kb) / érkezési időpontok(kb.)

The route with the stations and timetable

A: Újköztemető, 298-as parcella
      Budapest X., Kozma utca 8.
      Gyülekezés a temető főbejáratánál 9 órától; a menet a 298-as parcellától indul!
      0 km (a főbejárattól a parcella kb. 2 km-re van!)/ 0h 0' / 10:00

P1: pihenő
      Kőbányai út és Kőrösi Csoma S. út találkozása
      ~4,4 km / ~1h 0' / ~11:30 - 12:00

P2: pihenő
      Kőbányai út és Könyves Kálmán körút kereszteződése
      ~1,8 km / ~0h 30' / ~12:30 - 13:00

B: Kis Varsó emléktábla 
      Budapest VIII., Népszínház utca 46.
      ~2,2 km / ~0h 30' / ~13:30 - 14:30

C: Magyar Zsidó Munkaszolgálatosok Emlékműve
      Budapest VII., Bethlen Gábor tér 2.
      ~1,4 km / ~0h 30' / ~15:00-16:00

D: Koszorús Ferenc emléktáblája
      Budapest VII., Károly körút 3.
      ~1,9 km / ~0h 30' / ~16:30-17:00

E: Cipők a Duna-parton
      Budapest V., Kossuth Lajos tér 4.
      ~2,2 km / ~0h 30' / ~17:30 - 18:00

F: Radnóti Emléktábla
      Budapest XIII., Pozsonyi út 1.
      ~1,2 km / ~0h 30' / ~18:30 - 19:00

A táv teljes hossza: ~17,1 km, nettó gyaloglási időtartama: ~ 4 óra

A fenti km- ill. idő-adatokat az aktuális időjárási, ill. közlekedési, esetleg egyéb rendkívüli körülmények befolyásolhatják.

The printable version of the above list is here: http://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_kR5GON9CwDRlEtZUg2ZHI3dGs

A teljes, nyomtatható útvonaltérkép állomáshelyekkel:
Full printable route map with stations and timetable:

4. Radnóti Menet, 2012. november 9.
Útvonal és állomáshelyek

____________________
Források:
(1) A fenti cikkünk a nyilvánosan elérhető, nyomtatható http://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_kR5GON9CwDRlEtZUg2ZHI3dGs PDF fájl HTML-re átszerkesztett változata. A térképet innen vettük át, ahol további részletesebb térképek is találhatók: http://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B_kR5GON9CwDN2d6YXpXLU83eWM/edit

International Remembrance Day of Roma Victims of the Pharraimos (Holocaust) 2012

The second of August was the Day in 1944 where more than 3000 Roma und Sinti in Auschwitz-Birkenau, have been gassed and gone through the fire. Remember and remind

on Thursday, 2 August 2012, at 6 pm
in Budapest IX. Nehru part (quay)⁽²⁾ at the Roma Holocaust Memorial.⁽³⁾

The Roma Holocaust Memorial can be accessed by a few-minutes walk to the north from the Pestside abutment of the Petőfi bridge.

View Larger Map

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Sources:
(2) http://wikimapia.org/3867224/hu/Nehru-part
(3) http://wikimapia.org/9392076/hu/Roma-holokauszt-eml%C3%A9km%C5%B1
(4) recently, the Memorial has been desecrated by neo-Nazis several times.
(5) The International Remembrance Day of Roma Victims of the Pharraimos (Holocaust)has become an action day since 2009 http://www.causes.com/causes/313303-international-remembrance-day-of-roma-victims-of-the-pharraimos-holocaust/about
(6) Some videos calling for the event in Hungarian: http://antifa-hungary.blogspot.com/2012/08/roma-holokauszt-nemzetkozi-emleknap-2012.html
(7) Commemoration throughout Hungarian:  http://goo.gl/maps/T9rXO
     In other countries: http://goo.gl/maps/T9rXO

Memorial Day of Hungarian Anti-Fascist Resistance 2012

... and commemorating Endre Ságvári

Budapest, Wednesday, 27 July 2012.

4:15 pm: Gesztenyéskert (Hungarian Anti-fascist League - MAL & Association of Hungarian Resistance Fighters and Anti-Fascists - MEASZ)

• Location: Memorial to the victims of fascism
  ( http://www.szoborlap.hu/4328_a_fasizmus_aldozatainak
  _emlekmuve_budapest_somogyi_jozsef_1985.html )
  1123 Budapest, Jagelló út 1-3, next to the Budapest Convention Centre

7:00 pm: The spot where the antifascist Ságvári was killed by Hungarian gendarmes in a firefight near the once confectionery Nagy (today Remíz Restaurant) this day in 1944 in the Nazi occupied Hungary.

• Location: Remiz Restaurant, Cafe and Beer-House
  1021 Budakeszi út 5
  

Access between locations:
Tram: No. 61
Changing at: Budagyöngye
Bus: No. 22 (1 stop)

Google map including public transportation:

Click here for larger map

The last year event: http://antifa-hungary.blogspot.hu/2011/07/memorial-day-of-hungarian-anti-fascist.html

Further background/historical information:

• (in Hungarian): http://antifa-hungary.blogspot.com/2010/07/emlekezes-sagvari-endrere-2010.html
• (in English) Two events to commemorate the murder of Endre Ságvári: http://antifa-hungary.blogspot.hu/2010/07/two-events-to-commemorate-murder-of.html

Neo-Nazi with his Jewish Grandmother

Csanad Szegedi, a leader of Hungary’s illegal neo-Nazi parliamentary party Jobbik has a Jewish grandmother.

"Since 2009, Szegedi has belonged to Jobbik-Movement for a Better Hungary (Jobbik), a nationalistic political party denoted by scholars and media outlets as anti-Semitic, anti-Roma, homophobic, and neo-fascist. Szegedi garnered copious media attention three years ago for attending the first session of the European Parliament clothed in the Uniform of Jobbik’s banned paramilitary arm, the Hungarian Guard."⁽¹⁾

"The campaign to eliminate Jobbik from the Hungarian political arena has shifted into higher gears... Szegedi's grandmother, Magdolna Klein was deported to Auschwitz in June 1944. After returning from the camp, she married to Orthodox Jew, Imre Meisels who died in the '80s. Szegedi's grandmother is still alive."⁽²⁾

Barikad.hu, the rude neo-Nazi website (and also the closely related weakly Bar!kád)  of Jobbik published an interview with Szegedi who was explaining at great length that he was a "good Jew".^(3)(a)
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Sources:
(1) 28/06/2012 Algemeiner.com: Member of Hungarian Anti-Semitic Party Learns of His Jewish Roots, www.algemeiner.com/2012/06/28/member-of-hungarian-anti-semitic-party-learns-hes-jewish/
(2) 26/06/2012/06/ hungarianambiance.com: Jobbik MEP Csanád Szegedi has Jewish ancestry, http://www.hungarianambiance.com/2012/06/jobbik-mep-csanad-szegedi-has-jewish.html (hungarianambiance.com is one of the Hungarian-English language neo-Nazi websites.)
(3) 26/06/2012/ barikád.hu (in Hungarian): Szegedi Csanád az ellene zajlott karaktergyilkosságról, (The image above is from here: http://barikad.hu/sites/barikad.hu/files/2012/06/szegedicsanad_1.jpg)
(4) A link collection about the topic in our bookmark repository: http://www.delicious.com/antifahungary/Szegedi%20Csan%C3%A1d+English
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Notes:
(a) As we have learnt from history, someone being hated by Nazis is not necessarily a Jew in reality. It is enough that a Nazi decides that you are one.

Illegal Hungarian neo-Nazi is free

Far-right activist György Budaházy was acquitted of crime against the state by Hungary’s highest court, which on Tuesday overturned a lower court decision convicting him for “preparing to overthrow constitutional order by force.”⁽¹⁾

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Sources:

(1) http://www.politics.hu/20120627/far-right-activist-budahazy-acquitted-of-crimes-against-state/

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Notes:

As it was expected. The illegitimate PM Viktor Orbán is indebted to the (illegal!) neo-Nazis for their help given between 2002 and 2010 to get the absolute power over Hungary. Now he must pay.

A collection of links on the topic: http://www.delicious.com/antifahungary/budahazy+english

Anonymous's attack against Hungarian neo-Nazi websites

20/04/2011 Hungary

A coordinated attack was launched by Hungarian members of the hacker group Anonymous⁽¹⁾ against the illegal neo-Nazi websites including the illegal neo-Nazi Hungarian parliamentary party's website, Jobbik.

For a while these site was blocked. The site of Jobbik, and the prominent members of it, namely of chairman Gábor Vona, EU parliament member Krisztina Morvai, the PM Tamás Gaudi Nagy, and the Hungarian Guard (Magyar Gárda) were not available.^(2-6)

Hungarian Anonymous called the action Fuck the Nazi. Their announcement can be read in English too.⁽⁷⁾ 
They scheduled the action for this day because of Hitler's birthday.

Neo-Nazis's answer came of usual Nazi style on of the meida-site of Jobbik, Barikád.hu⁽⁸⁾, and they have formed a counter-Facebook page: Anti Anonymous Operation Hungary⁽⁹⁾

The counter-attack was performed soon by neo-Nazis. The Jewish online medium, judapest.com is hacked and it's content can be modified by neo-Nazis. This moment it is a free prey.⁽¹⁰⁾

It is not justified whether the anti-Nazi attack was performed by real Anonymous group. The most rude and dirty Hungarian neo-Nazi site⁽¹¹⁾ allegedly has found the originator of the anti-Nazi action and they publicized his personal data on their site violating the law. They say he is a liberal, maybe a Jewish, of course.
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Sources:
We has not found yet any English news about the action.
(1) Wikipedia: Anonymous (group) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_%28group%29 (There is no Hungarian version of the article!)
(2) Jobbik.hu http://www.jobbik.hu/ (Hungarian)
(3) Vona Gábor http://vonagabor.hu/ (Hungarian)
(4) Morvai Krisztina http://www.morvaikrisztina.hu/ (Hungarian)
(5) Gaudi Nagy Tamás http://www.gaudi.jobbik.hu/ (Hungarian)
(6) Magyar Gárda http://magyargarda.hu/ (Hungarian)
(7) Anonymous Operation Hungary https://www.facebook.com/OpHunAnon/info

"We are Anonymous. We are an Idea. We are whistle-blowers. We want truth, justice, equality and freedom of speech. We are against censorship, corporate greed and corruption. We want change! The current system is unjust, inhumane and leads us to doomsday. We have no leaders, we have no orders, we have no bombs. We are many. We are legion. We do not forget. We do not forgive. Expect Us! Join us and be part of a glorious revolution!"

      Their calling up on a video clip in Hungarian: http://youtu.be/I5aPWlUzPdo
(8) (Hungarian) Jobbik.hu: Jó munkát, cenzorok! - A Barikád válasza az Anonymousnak: http://jobbik.hu/rovatok/orsz%C3%A1gos_h%C3%ADrek/j%C3%B3_munk%C3%A1t_cenzorok_-_a_barik%C3%A1d_v%C3%A1lasza_az_anonymousnak
(9)  (Hungarian) Anti Anonymous Operation Hungary, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Anti-Anonymous-Operation-Hungary/390654697634731?sk=info
(10) The interesting thing that the judapest.org is registered in Germany:
        http://www.whois-search.com/whois/judapest.com
        http://www.1api.net/aboutus.php

(11) (Hungarian) http://kuruc.info/r/6/95126/   This Hungarian neo-Nazis site is hosted on US servers. USA is responsible for it because she signed the Paris peace treaty in1947 that says: fascist type organization is prohibited in Hungary: Paris Peace Treaty 1947
(12) Bunch of the news - mainly in Hungarian - about the topic can be found in our link collection: http://www.delicious.com/stacks/view/CaJ1iF

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Notes:
We were a little surprised by the fact that there are antifascists among Hungarian members of Anonymous. We were convinced that they are all neo-Nazis.

May Day neo-Nazi Parade in Germany

German neo-Nazi groups are planning demonstrations in different parts of Germany on the 1st of May 2012. In response, the left party, Die Linke, and anti-fascist groups are organizing counter-protest demonstrations all over the country to interfere with the parade of neo-Nazis.⁽¹⁾

The neo-Nazis' rally is supported by the German far-right nationalist party, NPD (National Democratic Party of Germany – The People's Union (German: Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands – Die Volksunion)).

The Nazi March planned in Dortmund  is cancelled by the local leader of the Nazi scene. They have not done it voluntarily. They were forced to back out facing the broad opposition from the left-democratic parties and youth organizations and the anti-fascist alliance. ⁽²⁾

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Sources:
(1) A bunch of relating news and information in our link-catalog, mainly in German (we have not found any news in English about the preparations of Germans yet): http://delicious.com/stacks/view/BOub8g
(2) (in German) Nazis wollen nicht in Dortmund ‚Mai-Feiern‘, http://dortmundquer.blogsport.de/2012/03/12/nazis-wollen-nicht-in-dortmund-mai-feiern/ - Congratulations to the Dortmund left-wings and antifascists!

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Notes: We wonder if the Hungarian neo-Nazis want to parade in Hungary on May Day. If so, surely they will not face any difficulty in spite of they are illegal under the Hungarian law containing an international agreement (Paris Peace Treaty 1947)

Nazi speech in the Hungarian Parlaiment

Karl Pfeifer's article⁽¹⁾ gives more details about the scandal that has recently happened in the Hungarian Parliament, namely that the illegal⁽²⁾ neo-Nazi party Jobbik MP, Zsolt Baráth, delivered an explicit Nazi speech there. The article also reveals some of the background of the Tiszaeszlár case related to the girl Eszter Solymosi⁽³⁾. Furthermore, Karl Pfeifer gives some references and weblinks having documentary values.

Should our readers - especially those not living in Hungary - wish to understand what is going on in today's Hungary they should definitely read the whole article.

A lead-in of the article follows:

"There is no other European country with the possible exemption of Lithuania where anti-Semitism has become such a part and parcel of mainstream politics and media.
...
A recent public opinion survey by the ADL confirms that the level of anti-Semitism in Hungary is one of the highest in the European Union. For example 73 per cent believe that Jews have too much power in the business world.
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To help the Hungarian people defeat anti-Semitism and racism^(a) , United Europe should investigate the racism and anti-Semitism that infects such broad areas of politics in Hungary."

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Sources:
(1) 05/04/2012 Harry's Place, Karl Pfeifer: Neo-Nazi MP rehashes blood libel in Hungarian parliament, http://hurryupharry.org/2012/04/05/neo-nazi-mp-rehashes-blood-libel-in-hungarian-parliament/
(2) A Hungarian law based on the international Paris Peace Treaty (1947) forbids the activity of fascist organizations.
(3) Wikipedia: Tiszaeszlár Affair, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiszaeszl%C3%A1r_Affair (the drawing above is linked from here)

"The Tiszaeszlár Affair was an accusation of ritual murder against Jews in Hungary, which led to a trial that set off anti-Semitic agitation in 1882 and 1883."

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Notes:
(a) We wonder what will happen should Hungarian people (but a few) not want to defeat it?

Inciting Nazi speech on Tiszaeszlár in the Hungarian Parliament

An inciting racist and anti-Semitic speech was given on 3 April 2012, after the agenda in the Hungarian Parliament.⁽¹⁾ Zsolt Baráth, representative of Jobbik, a Nazi party that's existence is obviously violating the Paris Peace Treaty,⁽²⁾ reiterated and brought up-to-date in five minutes the racist accusations of the "Hungarian Dreyfus affair", the Tiszaeszlár blood libel⁽³⁾ of 1882-83 that were deemed unfounded and refused by the independent court already that time.

Although Baráth's speech was censured by János Fónagy, secretary of state of the Fidesz party, he missed mentioning that this speech was a proof of Jobbik's being a Nazi organisation and that this should be followed by the proscription of the party.

Hungary has by now become probably the only country of the world where in case of such a speech other members of the Parliament do not leave the chamber immediately. How can representatives considering themselves democrats share a room with Nazis at all?
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Sources:
(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbb5lGdurms
(2) http://antifa-hungary.blogspot.com/2011/10/paris-peace-treaty-1947.html
(3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiszaeszl%C3%A1r_blood_libel

Antifa activists remove Árpád-stripes flag in Budapest

The far-right's red-white-striped Árpád-stripes⁽⁴⁾ flag appeared next to red-white-green Hungarian flag on a building in Zugló, the 14^th district of Budapest on the national holiday of 15 March 2012, the daily newspaper Népszava⁽¹⁾ and the blog Fotolexikon⁽²⁾ report.

Árpád-stripes flag on a house in Zugló, Budapest⁽²⁾

This fact generated some discussion and amazement on Facebook. The journalist Mónika Török encouraged citizens of the district to remove the flag rather than just to bewail the situation. The replies to this suggestion were sceptic and reluctant, nevertheless some Nazis immediately came up with threats for the case should the flag disappear. Some commentators had moral(!) scruples about doing something like this by saying: 'you should realize that resistance has never been a custom of us, leftists'. Seeing that no action can be expected from local activists, the journalist and some of her companions removed the Nazi-flag by themselves and reported about the action^(2,3) on Facebook.

arpadsavos zászló leszerelése.MOV
http://youtu.be/nHRx5LjXyMU

The reaction to this report was at least disappointing. Some comments admittedly expressed appreciation and congratulated to the action, however, most of them gave voice to concern and fear about possible consequences or even revenge - 'oh my God, what will happen now', a commentator wrote. Conversely, the Nazis were not so shy. Gross verbal insults and threats to murder appeared immediately including anti-Semitic sayings like: "The summer-camp Auschwitz will be re-opened and then they may lament as much as they want to. Tee-hee."

This is Hungary 2012, János Dési, the author of the Népszava article concludes.
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Sources:
(1) 26/03/2012, Dési János: Szaknyilasok, ellenállók és az Árpád-sávos zászló,
http://www.nepszava.hu/articles/article.php?id=533029
(2) 26/03/2012, Szaknyilasok, ellenállók és az Árpád-sávos zászló: http://fotolexikon.blogspot.com/
(3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHRx5LjXyMU
(4) Árpád stripes, Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81rp%C3%A1d_stripes
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Notes:
(a) Although the Árpád stripes⁽⁴⁾ have centuries old historical origins, they have fascist connotations because the Nazi puppet government formed by members of the Hungarian Arrow Cross Party, which was in place for seven months (October 1944–April 1945), used a similar symbol as a component of their flag in the 1940s. Today Hungarian neo-Nazis deny the relation to the symbol of Arrow Cross Party saying that theirs is different. But the strong similarity is undoubted and one hardly could say it is unintentional. Anyway, today the Árpád stripes pattern (on flag or different material) is preferably used by Hungarian far-rights only .

(b) Under the video on the Youtube⁽³⁾ can be read some extremely rude Nazi comment. In Hungarian, naturally:

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German version: Antifa-Aktivisten entfernen Árpádflagge in Budapest, http://antifa-hungary.blogspot.com/2012/03/antifa-aktivisten-entfernen-arpadflagge.html

Judiciary under control of fascistic government

Another step of demolishing the democracy on the way towards the fascism in Hungary can be known by a Guardian article⁽¹⁾:

Victor Orbán

In Hungary, one woman effectively controls the judiciary, and she happens to be married to the author of its constitution
Imagine a European country where one person can pick the judges. And effectively sack them or transfer them to other courts. And draw up court rules. And initiate legislation on the courts. And hold some 60 other specified legal powers
(...)
All these powers are in the hands of Tünde Handó⁽²⁾, a former judge and president of the newly established national judicial office (NJO). No doubt it's pure coincidence that she is married to József Szájer⁽³⁾, a founding member of the ruling Fidesz party and the man credited with drawing up Hungary's constitution on his iPad.
(...)
"When not only the fundamental principles but also very specific and detailed rules on certain issues will be enacted in cardinal laws," it[Venice commission⁽⁴⁾] added, "the principle of democracy itself is at risk."

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Sources:
(1) 20/03/2012, The Guardian, Joshua Rozenberg: Meet Tünde Handó http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/mar/20/tunde-hando-hungarian-judges (The Orbán photo is linked from here.)
      23/03/2012, The Guardian: Unveil the courts? http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/mar/23/1
      21/03/2012, HVG.hu: Guardian: "Ismerjék meg Handó Tündét" - excerpt from the Guardian article in Hungarian, with translation of some parts of it: http://hvg.hu/vilag/20120321_hando_guardian
     Eva S. Balogh 13/12/2011: The end of the independent judiciary, http://esbalogh.typepad.com/hungarianspectrum/2011/12/the-end-of-the-independent-judiciary.html

Tünde Handó

"Until now the appointment of judges was the jurisdiction of an organization consisting of high-level judges, the chief justice, and the minister of justice. This organization was abolished. In its place the Orbán government set up the Országos Bírósági Hivatal (OBH) whose head, appointed for nine years, will be able to pick judges single-handedly. This position as of today is filled by Tünde Handó⁽²⁾, the wife of József Szájer⁽³⁾, Fidesz European parliamentary member and one of the founders of Fidesz.

József Szájer

He was the one who wrote the Hungarian constitution on an iPad on the train between Budapest and Brussels. Moreover, Tünde Handó is a very close friend of both Viktor Orbán and his wife, Anikó Lévai. They all lived in the same dormitory in the 1980s as law students. The friendship has lasted almost 30 years. Tünde and Anikó can often be seen together attending concerts or theatre performances."

(3) Tünde Handó on Wikipedia (in Hungarian): http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand%C3%B3_T%C3%BCnde
(4) József Szájer on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zsef_Sz%C3%A1jer

(3) Venice Commission: http://www.venice.coe.int/site/main/Presentation_E.asp

"The European Commission for Democracy through Law, better known as the Venice Commission, is the Council of Europe's advisory body on constitutional matters. Established in 1990, the commission has played a leading role in the adoption of constitutions that conform to the standards of Europe's constitutional heritage.

Initially conceived as a tool for emergency constitutional engineering, the commission has become an internationally recognised independent legal think-tank. Today it contributes to the dissemination of the European constitutional heritage, based on the continent's fundamental legal values while continuing to provide “constitutional first-aid” to individual states. The Venice Commission also plays a unique and unrivalled role in crisis management and conflict prevention through constitution building and advice."

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Notes:
"the principle of democracy itself is at risk." - the main problem is not so with principles but as much more rather practise. Fidesz (Orbán) has ability even all of the tools to make the world believe that they are building democracy in Hungary. And the world readily believes it. None of the country needs diplomatic complication, does it? It is more convenient to close their eyes and ears, to believe that there are no any serious problem and to learn what the Fidesz government pretends.

We wonder what if a country doesn't take the advices of this type of commissions⁽⁵⁾. As can be seen regarding the case of the Paris Peace Treaty(1947). The international agreement even contained by Hungarian act is good for nothing. None of any signatories (e.g. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United States of America, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, the Union of South Africa ) does care about the violation of the agreement. So it can happens in the 21th century in the middle of Europe that a little country has been marching on the way towards a new type of fascism even nacizm undisturbed.

After all at this time the world will not have any excuse (e.g.: "Sorry. How could we imagine that those terrible things would happen? We had no any ideas what were going on in Germany and later in Europe?") for why they allowed to happen. Indeed the victims are not/will not be happy knowing about it.

Early steps of the reborn fascist tendency

Example for early phases of the tendency towards reborn of Nazi ideologies, movements and organizations in Hungary and also responsibility of the political parties and public persons about it.⁽¹⁾:

Freedom of speech in Hungary has all too often become a freedom for Nazi-speech^(a), which is sometimes defended by the very people it attacks and seeks to destroy– as the story of Hungarian politician Miklós Gáspár Tamás[MGT]⁽²⁾ shows. Tamás began as a Marxist, became a Liberal and MP of the Liberal SZDSZ party from 1990 until 1994, returned to Marxism again and is now one of the leaders of a small left-wing group.

Two main ideologies compete in Hungary today: that of the extreme right-wing party Jobbik, which is openly antisemitic, anti-Roma and anti-gay, and that of the ruling party Fidesz, which considers itself a party of the middle pretending to combat antisemitism, while hosting and protecting violently antisemitic personalities.
(...)
[MGT] steadfastly declined to attack antisemites– because of his commitment to “intellectual freedom.” He was less tolerant^(b) when Budapest Rabbi György Landeszmann committed a famous gaffe in February 1993 by publicly stating (after many provocative questions) that there would not be any Hungarian culture without the Jews.

Miklós Gáspár Tamás– who had declared in March 1992: “We must protect every party, every thought, even those we feel to be unsupportable”^(4.1)– one year later called Dr. Landeszmann, the former head of the Jewish archives of Hungary, “a stupid and mischievous Hungarian citizen […] who has read nothing since his A-levels.” He then went on (and I translate only his less vitriolic remarks): “Considering the idiotic statements by Mr. Landeszmann, more short-tempered people than me might be tempted to say: ‘If Mr. Chief Rabbi is so displeased with us, why don’t we ask him, with blushing face and trembling lids, to kindly emigrate to Israel.’ […] How could the Jews, an allegedly wise people […] charge Landeszmann with the leadership of their community?”^(4.2)
(...)
Yet when István Csurka⁽⁵⁾, one of the Hungary’s most outspoken and influential antisemites, died recently Tamás published a long obituary in a liberal weekly. While not denying Csurka’s fierce antisemitism, Tamás stated: “[Csurka] was not a Nazi in the sense of Jobbik [the ultra-right-wingers], a party that does not really care about the Hungarian people. […] May he rest in peace, he was not the worst.”(...)

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Sources:
(1) Karl Pfeifer: A compulsive urge, 2012/03/20. http://hurryupharry.org/2012/03/20/a-compulsive-urge/

(2) Tamás Gáspár Miklós (TGM) on Wikipedia ( in Hungarian - no English version but French, Spanish, Russian and Esperanto (none of them is sufficient complex articles)): http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam%C3%A1s_G%C3%A1sp%C3%A1r_Mikl%C3%B3s
One can find many articles and a lot of information of him in English all over the web, e.g.:
The Left and Marxism in Eastern Europe; Gáspár Miklós Tamás Interviewed by Imre Szeman, brief version: http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/tamas170410.html
full version: http://www.mediationsjournal.org/articles/the-left-and-marxism-in-eastern-europe

(4) The author Karl Pfeifer wrote the Hungarian version of the post ⁽¹⁾ with exact references and quotes:
2012/03/02: Karl Pfeifer: Ellenvélemény, ÉS (a weekly for democratic-liberal intellectuals): http://www.es.hu/karl_pfeifer;ellenvelemeny;2012-02-29.html
(4.1) 1992/03/15: on a demostration TGM said (in Hungarian): „...nem egy pártot, nem egy gondolkodásmódot és nem egy ízlést kell védenünk, hanem minden ízlést, minden pártot és minden gondolatot, még azt is, amelyet elviselhetetlennek érzünk”
(4.2) 1993/03/18: TGM wrote (in Hungarian) in Magyar Hírlap,(a daly, that time left-liberal today rude nazi)
„Landeszmann főrabbi buta magyar állampolgár, kártékony magyar állampolgár (...) a zsidók állítólag okos emberek. De hát ez az állapot nem tarthat sokáig, ha olyanok tanítják őket a szentre és igazra, mint Landeszmann főrabbi.”

Landeszmann affair similarity to Kertész one:
Eva S. Balogh: The Ákos Kertész affair, 2011/09/07: http://esbalogh.typepad.com/hungarianspectrum/2011/09/the-%C3%A1kos-kert%C3%A9sz-affair.html?cid=6a00e009865ae588330163026c3f87970d

"This case is somewhat similar to the "Landeszmann case" of 1993 that kept the Hungarian nationalistic right excited for a very long time.

György Landeszmann was a rabbi who, after hearing István Csurka's seemingly endless antisemitic rantings, got tired of the tirades and said something not too flattering about Hungarian culture without the participation of Hungarians of Jewish origin. The reaction was incredible. Heti Magyarország, the right-wing paper of the day, published a whole book in which Károly Alexa, the editor, collected all the articles dealing with the subject. Believe it or not, there are 266 pages filled with the stuff that followed a couple of ill-chosen sentences. Let me add that Landeszmann was right about the enormous contributions that Hungarians of Jewish origin have made to modern Hungarian culture in general, at least in the last one hundred years. By the way, in the end Landeszmann emigrated to Canada."

(5) Nazi writer in the 1956 National Pantheon

(6) Some relating source with additional references in Hungarian:
A gatya bõ, a barack fütyül, 2008/02/26: http://www.judapest.org/a-gatya-bo-a-barack-futyul/
1993: bőgatya és fütyülős barack, 2008/02/26: http://index.hu/belfold/tegnapiujsag/2008/02/26/1993/
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Notes:
(a)  Especially for 2002 the right of free-speech both that of assembly gradually has been appropriated by far-rights.

(b)  Typical Hungarian liberal double standard. Some editors of this blog have been experiencing directly  how the liberal free-speech fervours could be angry, dismissive, intolerant, even rude personal when getting criticism or debate. Some times their reaction goes beyond that of far-rights. Now the GTM's reply to the Pfeifer's critical article⁽¹⁾ proves again this statement of ours: ÉS, 23/03/2012: Tamás Gáspár Miklós: „Ellenvélemény” (MGT: "Opposition" ), http://www.es.hu/tamas_gaspar_miklos;8222;ellenvelemeny8221;;2012-03-07.html . Although the truth is that GTM doesn't call himself liberal today. After all we cannot say much more better about the attitude of Hungarian "left-wings" too.
We dare say there is no doubt about the responsibility also of the Hungarian liberals for the strengthen of the fascist tendency.

Ever True Statement

“The world is a dangerous place to live in; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” Albert Einstein – refugee from Nazi Germany

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Sources:
Unite Against Fascism, http://uaf.org.uk/about/
Albert Einstein, Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein

Veszprém: protest against the Nazi outrage

We wrote about a next action planned by Neo-Nazis in a Hungarian town Veszprém in a recent post with title  "Jobbik-rally: "We are sick and tired of the Holocaust!!!"" (17/03/2012).

Now the local organizations of the Democratic Coalition⁽¹⁾ in Veszprém County⁽²⁾ announced they protest against the planned Neo-Nazi outrage. A piece of the Hungarian text of the announcement⁽³⁾:

A Demokratikus Koalíció Veszprém megyei szervezetei elítélik ezt és tiltakoznak ez ellen!
A XX. évszázad kirívóan szégyenletes bűne a holokauszt volt. A Veszprémbe érkező vándorkiállítás a sokat szenvedett emberekre, a meggyilkoltakra, de a meggyilkoltakat védelmezőkre, a gaztettekkel szembefordulókra is emlékeztet mindnyájunkat! Soha nem elég emlékezni és emlékeztetni az áldozatokra! Mindezt tagadni pedig égbekiáltó bűn!

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Sources:
(1) Democratic Coalition (abbreviation: DK),Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Coalition
(2) Veszprém County, Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veszpr%C3%A9m_County
(3) Homepage of DK: http://demokratikuskoalicio.hu/index.php/2011-12-05-15-42-05/dkhirek/1953-a-dk-veszprem-megyei-szervezetei-tiltakoznak-a-jobbik-felhaborito-megmozdulasa-ellen
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Note:
We think these type of announcements are important. However, especially nowadays, something more ought to be done. As we have written in our previous  post.

Jobbik-rally: "We are sick and tired of the Holocaust!!!"

Following announcement can be read in the web page of the Veszprém primary organization of the Jobbik party, in the rubric "Local events":⁽¹⁾

The cattle-truck supported by the March of the Living Foundation and spiralling throughout the country while making anti-Hungarian propaganda will arrive at Veszprém, after Székesfehérvár, on 19 March.

In our opinion, we cannot pass over this event in silence either and, therefore, we have organized a rally in Veszprém, in the field in front of the railway station on 19 March from 10 am to 1 pm.

We are expecting everyone who is sick and tired of the Holocaust and of having one law for one's friends and another for one's foes.

Kovács Rajmund, President

Snapshot of the web page of the Veszprém primary organization of the Jobbik party on 17 March 2012 at 18:46

Holocaust denial in the limelight of great publicity is a crime threatened with imprisonment up to three years according to the prevailing law in Hungary.^(2,3)

Furthermore, prevailing Hungarian law based on an international treaty forbids the activity of fascist organizations.⁽⁴⁾

We are looking forward with great interest to seeing when the Prosecution will fulfil its professional duty by initiating a criminal procedure against the law-breaker Jobbik and by initiating the proscription of this unlawfully existing Neo-Nazi party.

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Sources:
(1) http://veszprem.jobbik.hu/content/torkig-vagyunk-holokauszttal
(2) https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holokauszttagad%C3%A1s_elleni_t%C3%B6rv%C3%A9nyek
(in Hungarian)
(3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial
(4) http://antifa-hungary.blogspot.com/2011/10/paris-peace-treaty-1947.html

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Relating posts:
Veszprém: protest against the Nazi outrage

Variants of Hungarian Guard

A useful collection of reports from Hungary about the neo-Nazi Hungarian Guard⁽¹⁾ related to killing of Romas, with English narration. Viktória Mohácsi⁽²⁾, the former Member of European Parliament, Aladár Horváth⁽³⁾, roma leader, Pál Tamás⁽⁴⁾, sociologist, and others are speaking about deeper background and probable connections between events.  

Krisztina Morvai⁽⁵⁾, (lawyer) the well known anti-Semitic politician close co-working with the neo-Nazi Jobbik (though she is not member of it), and some members of Jobbik also can be heard. The video was uploaded on Sep 2, 2009.

Fascism in Hungary- Faschismus in Ungarn,EuroNews a magyarországi cigányságról magyar felirattal

http://youtu.be/Nmt_lM8gD1g

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Sources:
(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magyar_G%C3%A1rda
The paramilitary neo-Nazi Magyar Gárda Mozgalom (English: Hungarian Guard Movement) founded by neo-Nazi party Jobbik (Gábor Vona) Nowaday it is formally banned but it acts under different names, as New Hungarian Guard or Hungarian National Guard and joined with other neo-Nazi groups in a "Gárda Szövetség" (Guard Alliance). Homepage of the latter (in Hungarian): http://www.gardaszovetseg.com

(2) Viktória Mohácsi on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktória_Mohácsi
In 2009, she requested police protection due to serious threats she had received.
In February 2012 she has asked for asylum in Canada.

2012.02.04. romea.cz: Hungarian Roma activist, former member of European Parliament emigrates to Canada, "Under the previous, Socialist governments Mohacsi worked as ministerial commissioner in charge of the integration of children from Roma communities or living in deep poverty. She was delegated to the European Parliament by Hungary’s liberal Free Democratic Party, which has now become virtually defunct." http://www.romea.cz/english/index.php?id=detail&detail=2007_3142

(3) Aladár Horváth: "a former SZDSZ member of parliament and chairman of the Roma Civil Rights Foundation, is spending a few months[in summer of 2011] in the United States. A couple of weeks ago he gave a lecture in Washington entitled Hungary: From Bad to Worse/End of the Republic, Rise of Barbarism." July 04, 2011. Aladár Horváth in Washington: the Roma issue in perspective,
http://esbalogh.typepad.com/hungarianspectrum/2011/07/aladár-horváth-in-washington.html

July 30, 2011. Aladár Horváth, Roma activist's meeting with Thomas O. Melia - http://esbalogh.typepad.com/hungarianspectrum/2011/07/aladár-horváth-roma-activists-meeting-with-thomas-o-melia.html

In December of 2011 he was a guest lecturer in Canada:  Hungary, Canada, and the Roma: Roma Rights Seminar and Discussion in Canada, and an open lecture "Fate of Roma in Central Europe", http://www.romatoronto.org/past.html

Aladár Horváth has returned (Horváth Aladár visszatért), January 24, 2012. http://www.romnet.hu/hirek/2012/01/24/horvath_aladar_visszatert . The article (in Hungarian) contained some useful pieces of information. The article alleges that Aladár Horváth cancelled the Roma Civil Rights Foundation and has formed a new organisation called Civil Rights Movement for Republic. Another source (in Hungarian): http://hvg.hu/itthon/20120124_roma_polgarjogi_mozgalom

(4) Pál Tamás: professor of sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences:  http://www.socio.mta.hu/researchers/index.php?action=details&item=1 , http://www.evd-reset.org/general_members_faculty_cv_cv_dr._pal_tamas/
Here is one of his studies in English, useful and informative: Radical right-wing ideologies at the start of the 2006 political season, http://www.socio.mta.hu/dynamic/TamasP_Radical_right_wing_ideologies.pdf

Another informative article relating Pál Tamás in an English language blog: Radical right in Hungary, a new study, http://esbalogh.typepad.com/hungarianspectrum/2008/09/extreme-right-new-right-radical-right-in-hungary.html

(5) Krisztina Morvai on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krisztina_Morvai
"She was elected on the list of the political party Jobbik - Movement for a Better Hungary in the 2009 European Parliament elections. Although Morvai is not a member of Jobbik, the party already declared her as its future nominee for the position of the president of Hungary."