Football fans’ anti-Semitism
A leading conservative columnist condemns the football hooligans who chanted anti-Semitic slogans before and during a friendly football match between Hungary and Israel, but thinks the incident would...
View ArticleFar right journalist forced to return government award
A centrist blog argues that the award granted to an openly racist journalist reveals the problems with the highly centralised government Prime Minister Orbán has created, as Zoltan Balog, the Minister...
View ArticleReflections on the Gaza conflict
A columnist in the leading conservative daily contends that the primary cause of the Middle East conflict is the occupation of Palestinian land by Israel. His left-wing counterpart, on the other hand,...
View ArticleMigrant clash – Hungary as a new Israel?
An independent conservative analyst believes the migrants who clashed with Hungary’s security forces used tactics known from Gaza, where Palestinians deliberately put children at risk in their media...
View ArticleExodus route deleted from school map
A conservative pundit pokes fun at the authorities who wiped Moses’ route to the Promised Land from school maps in order not to offend either Jewish or Palestinian Arab sensitivities. Mandiner’s András...
View ArticleNetanyahu withdraws protest against anti-Soros poster campaign
Commentators sharply disagree about whether the government’s anti-immigration ad and billboard campaign depicting George Soros is anti-Semitic or not. Following an appeal by MAZSIHISZ, the Federation...
View ArticleBenjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Hungary
The Israeli Prime Minister is criticised by a left-wing pundit, while his visit is interpreted by a right-wing commentator as convincing proof that the accusations of anti-Semitism levelled against the...
View ArticleIsrael supplied material for the Soros campaign
A left-wing columnist lambasts Israel for supporting the right-wing Hungarian government in its effort to delegitimise George Soros and the NGOs sponsored by him. Eli Hazan, the director of...
View ArticleA right-wing take on Hungarian-Israeli ties
On the day after Hungary abstained from the UN General Assembly vote on the resolution condemning the recognition by the US of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, a pro-government author points out that...
View ArticleHungary nearer to Israel than core EU countries, says Jewish leader
The Chairman of the main religious organisation of the Jewish religious community writes that Hungarian Jewry could play a mediating role in relations between Israel and Europe. In his Népszava OpEd...
View ArticleHungary sides with US on moving embassy to Jerusalem
Although Hungary (along with the Czech Republic and Romania) vetoed an EU statement condemning the relocation of the US embassy from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem, a pro-government columnist warns that...
View ArticleA liberal take on the Left’s alleged anti-Semitism
A liberal commentator thinks that the Hungarian government is accusing the Left of anti-Semitism for purely strategic purposes. He also claims that, in the meantime, the government side relies on...
View ArticleHungary vetoes EU condemnation of US policy on Israel
A neoconservative pundit welcomes Hungary’s preliminary veto of an EU declaration condemning a recent statement by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, which recognised the Jewish settlements in the West...
View ArticlePro-government site takes up Israel’s defence
A conservative commentator accuses the mainstream international media of being biased against Israel in reports about the ongoing armed conflict with Hamas. On Pesti Srácok, Gábor Sebes condemns...
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