HUNGARY: Leader Of Far-Right Fascist Party Outed As Secretly Jewish
HUNGARY: Leader Of Far-Right Fascist Party Outed As Secretly Jewish
This scenario sounds all-too familiar, doesn't it?
As a rising star in Hungary's far-right Jobbik Party, Csanad Szegedi was notorious for his incendiary comments on Jews: He accused them of "buying up" the country, railed about the "Jewishness" of the political elite and claimed Jews were desecrating national symbols. Then came a revelation that knocked him off his perch as ultra-nationalist standard-bearer: Szegedi himself is a Jew. Following weeks of Internet rumors, Szegedi acknowledged in June that his grandparents on his mother's side were Jews making him one too under Jewish law, even though he doesn't practice the faith. His grandmother was an Auschwitz survivor and his grandfather a veteran of forced labor camps. Since then, the 30-year-old has become a pariah in Jobbik and his political career is on the brink of collapse.
Szegedi first became known as the leader of the neo-Nazi Hungarian Guard, a group which has since been outlawed. He was recorded offering a bribe and a job to a man who threatened to out his Jewish heritage. Szegedi is one of three Jobbik Party members with seats in the European Parliament.
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