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Hungarian rabbis pan Orban speech warning against 'mixed races'; PM's adviser quits | The Times of Israel
EU parliament leaders slam Hungary's Orban for 'openly racist' remarks | The Times of Israel
Hungary’s top rabbis have added their voice to a torrent of criticism about a speech by Prime Minister Viktor Orban in which he said that Hungarians “do not want to become peoples of mixed races.”
Orban, whose far-right rhetoric has long galvanized his base and millions abroad while angering many others, made the remark Saturday during a speech in Romania decrying the arrival to Europe of millions of Muslims.
Orban’s remark prompted an adviser, Zsuzsa Hegedus, to resign. In a letter announcing her resignation, Hegedus, who is Jewish, called the speech “a pure Nazi diatribe worthy of Joseph Goebbels,” the Nazi propaganda chief.
Orban, whose far-right rhetoric has long galvanized his base and millions abroad while angering many others, made the remark Saturday during a speech in Romania decrying the arrival to Europe of millions of Muslims.
Orban’s remark prompted an adviser, Zsuzsa Hegedus, to resign. In a letter announcing her resignation, Hegedus, who is Jewish, called the speech “a pure Nazi diatribe worthy of Joseph Goebbels,” the Nazi propaganda chief.
Slomo Koves, the head of the EMIH Orthodox umbrella of Jewish communities in Hungary, called Orban’s choice of words “unfortunate,” suggesting it was not compatible with “Judeo-Christian values.”
A European Parliament spokeswoman said the declaration was adopted on Friday with a “very large” majority.
Of the EU parliament party leaders, only the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists Group opposed the decision to condemn Orban’s comments, according to a parliament source.
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