Orbán assured Lauder that “Hungary has drawn the appropriate lessons from the dark chapter of Hungarian history that
took away so many of our compatriots from the Jewish community and deprived the survivors of their loved ones.”
The prime minister noted that his government maintained a policy of zero tolerance against anti-Semitism. He also offered Lauder and the Jewish World Congress his full cooperation “in the spirit of common values”. “With head bowed to the victims, I wish you much strength and good health in your work for the world’s Jewish community,” the letter concluded.
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The prime minister’s chief of staff, Gergely Gulyás, also marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday, saying that Hungary’s government was equipped to protect Hungarian Jews, human dignity and freedom of religion. Gergely Gulyás pledged the government’s continued support for the preservation and strengthening of the cultural identity of Hungarian Jews.
While the Hungarian government now has the means to protect Jewish citizens,
it is also eying the rise of new anti-Semitism in the world,
Gulyás said in a video posted on Facebook, concerned to see forces “aiming to curb the freedom of religion by legal and administrative means”. Hungary stands by Jewish communities living under the shadow of daily physical threats, he said.
Gulyás said that in 1945 Hungarian Jews had received no support from their homeland. “The Hungarian state was complicit in the terrifying atrocities committed,” he said. Today, Hungarian Jewry enjoys the greatest possible security in Europe, he said.
While zero tolerance against anti-Semitism is “not only government policy but a social reality” in Hungary, Europe is struggling to find a solution to social changes giving rise to a new anti-Semitism, Gulyás said.
“We remember the terrible tragedy Jews all over the world
faced during the second world war, which was also Europe and Hungary’s historical tragedy. We keep count of the murderers who “killed innocent people on the basis of racial supremacy. We remember this so that in the 21st century, we can avoid the godless and inhumane dictatorships of the 20th,” Gulyás said.
“We remember the heroes who remain human under inhuman circumstances. Those who conquered their fears and helped at a time of hopelessness.” The United Nations General Assembly declared January 27th, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, International Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2005.
Source: MTI
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Ok, so now can we overdiscuss, and overanalyze the Holodomor that happened in Ukraine 1932-33. ? Would that be possible?
Europe’s second most anti-semitic regime, after Poland ( but at least Polish regime has got the decency of keeping quiet on the matter,) claims to have zero tolerance against anti-semitism? Must be a joke. I will not get repetitive with listing the people Orbán&co.have decorated, awarded prizes to and given “cultural” tasks during the past few years, I already did so in a previous comment days ago.
Beside the illiberal gang in power, sadly anti-semitism and its most typical stereotypes are shared by a lot of people not only in Hungary but in many countries and especially in the “Visegrad” zone. Thank God, some day Orbán&co. will be gone, but i am afraid to say that anti-semitism is likely to remain.