US ambassador cried anti-Semitism due to the Soros billboards in Hungary
Hungary has zero tolerance of anti-semitism also as it applies to terrorism-supporting demonstrations, the state secretary for international communications said on the X social media platform on Thursday.
Zoltán Kovács responded to a recent post by US Ambassador David Pressman, and said it was not simply that “Jews are not assaulted on the streets” of Hungary. “Jewish life is enjoying a renaissance in Hungary,” Kovacs said.
“The harder you try, the more unsavoury it becomes, Mr. Ambassador. The time when anyone took your allegations of anti-semitism seriously is over,” he added.
Kovács asked Pressman if he had seen what is happening in his own country, on university campuses, for example. “No one can treat seriously your trying to teach us lessons,” he added.
US Ambassador David Pressman said at the ZsiFi Budapest Jewish and Israeli Film Festival that the Hungarian government would post billboards depicting a grinning, Jewish billionaire domineering over Hungary warning, “let’s not let Soros have the last laugh.” “Or posters of the same Jewish billionaire controlling politicians with puppet strings. Or, most recently, that same Jewish billionaire’s son shadowing the President of the European Commission. We don’t need to pin a yellow star on to these posters to understand the context in which they are published and the meaning behind the imagery. It doesn’t take a film critic to understand one of the stories these posters — in this country and in this context — are conveying.
Anti-semitism is not defined by the physical safety of Jews. That is a grotesquely low bar, the most basic responsibility of any government, for all of its people. But the fact is that anywhere anti-Semitism is allowed, or sometimes even encouraged, Jews are not secure. Some may conflate physical safety with security, but they are different. ” Read his full speech HERE.
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