The Jewish background of a far-right leader
June 30th, 2012

Left-wing commentators poke fun at Jobbik MEP Csanád Szegedi who has turned out to have Jewish ancestry. Far right bloggers urge him to withdraw from politics. Jobbik chairman Gábor Vona says the case proves that his party is not racist.



Mr Szegedi won the presidency of his party’s Borsod County branch in June in a fiercely fought campaign. His rivals for the post circulated documents proving his Jewish origins. He told Barikád, a radical right-wing magazine affiliated to Jobbik, that he has still not managed to digest the news, but after all it is one’s deeds, not birth that determines who one is. Readers opening his webpage is search of his earlier writings about Jews are automatically redirected to his Facebook- page.

“This is a very benign development, as it confutes the anti-Semitic stereotype according to which Jews are all liberal philosophers and bankers,” Árpád W. Tóta comments sarcastically in HVG.
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