State secretary: US ambassador has no respect for Hungarians
US Ambassador to Hungary David Pressman “behaves as if Hungary were the 51st state of the United Sates and he were its governor,” Tamás Menczer, the foreign affairs state secretary, told public television on Monday.
Referring to recent remarks by the ambassador made at the opening ceremony of the 12th Budapest Jewish and Israeli Film Festival, alluding to anti-Semitism on the subject of posters depicting Alex Soros, Menczer said: “We are a country with a statehood somewhat older than that of America … and even in the most primitive political disputes, they don’t argue that the Hungarian government would slam George Soros and his son because of their Jewishness.
“We usually refer to [Soros and his son] as talented Hungarians, but the problem is that they use their talent for bad purposes: they support migration and war,” Menczer said. “We support peace and we say ‘no’ to migration … that decision by Hungarian voters must be respected and it is a problem that the US ambassador doesn’t,” he said.
Menczer referred to the appreciation of international Jewish organisations, the prime minister of Israel and the Israeli ambassador to Hungary, suggesting that “Hungary is one of the best places in the world” in terms of security for people with a Jewish identity.
He added that anti-Semitism, on the other hand, “has never been such a great problem in the US as now”, with Jewish people only representing 2 percent of the population but suffering some 55 percent of hate crime cases. Fully 88 percent of Jews viewed anti-Semitism as a problem in the US, he added.
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Sadly, true. It beggars belief that this guy is brazenly making pronouncements of a naked political nature, as if he was some kind of a viceroy and Hungary a vassal state of the U.S.
It was no accident that the Biden administration sent an ambassador with a background so contrary to Hungarian values. This in-your-face act only alienates most Hungarians and leaves Biden more hated than in the US.
An LGBTQ etc. member came prepared to hate Hungary on behalf of the Biden Administration. There was never any doubt that Pressman will denigrate the country at every opportunity, and he did not disappoint. Liberal envoy appointees cannot abide conservatism. This will pass and once a Republican President occupies the White House, things will change. Pressman will be a nightmare to be forgotten.
The problem is not only that Pressman is a Hungarian hater but he is not very smart, professing that Hungary is anti-Semitic, contrary to all evidence. There are no hate Israel pro terrorist protests in Hungary, Jewish students are safe at Hungarian universities, Jewish people freely walk the streets, not Muslim terrorist murder Jewish people at random and Jewish businesses are supported. Israel is an ally of Hungary. Hungarian Jewish people are just as important and precious as any other Hungarian citizen.
Hungary’s hope is that the next ambassador to the country would be smart or at least be fair.