Tag: Viktor Orban
Budapest, haunted by the Holocaust, welcomes Israeli visitors
ne chilly winter night in Budapest, from our hotel room overlooking the iconic Váci Street, we were taken by surprise to hear a group of young Israelis enthusiastically singing “Am Yisrael Chai!” (The People...
Another emerging de facto Israeli FM
In a departure from Israel’s traditional foreign policy, Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli has been quietly cultivating relationships with far-right parties across Europe, many of which have shown support for Israel following the Oct. 7 Hamas...
Notes from the safest place in Europe for Jews
This is a perilous time to be a Jew. The world responded to the greatest mass slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust with a surge of antisemitism and sympathy for those who committed the...
Orbán’s election victory highlights shift among Hungarian Jews
In an unusual Hungarian election, whereby ideologically disparate opposition parties united to attempt to prevent Prime Minister Viktor Orbán from serving his fourth consecutive term (and fifth total), the Hungarian people gave him the...
Debunking liberal assumptions about Jewish security in a changing Europe
According to most of the international media, democracy was defeated in this week’s Hungarian election. The victory of incumbent Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party over a multi-party opposition coalition of parties...
Hungary and anti-Semitism: A reply to columnist Ben Cohen
I read Ben Cohen’s July 23 column on anti-Semitism in Hungary with great interest.
Basically, I don’t consider Cohen’s article to be a bad one: as a Holocaust researcher and deputy editor-in-chief of Hungary’s largest Jewish news...
Kosovo to open embassy in Jerusalem as Czech Republic institutes new office
Kosovo is set to become the third country after the United States and Guatemala to open an embassy in Jerusalem. Israel Hayom has learned that senior diplomats from both countries will attend a ceremony in Jerusalem...
What is the real story behind Judaism in Hungary?
The history of Europe and the Jewish people is one that has seen some of humanity’s most remarkable triumphs and darkest periods. Despite the Jewish population nearly being wiped out in the Holocaust, the...
Is Netanyahu making deals with the devil?
Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been severely criticized for cozying up to sundry dictators, autocrats or governments that downplay or deny their country’s role in the Holocaust.
Among those he has either visited or...
The historic nature of Miloš Zeman’s speech in Jerusalem
Shifts in perceptions among European Jews on where they feel safest is not due entirely to demographic change. It also has to do with Eastern European leaders like the Czech Republic’s Miloš Zeman, who,...