Leader of anti-Semitic party in Hungary discovers he is Jewish

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Vancouver Sun:

By Pablo Gorondi, The Associated Press August 14, 2012 3:38 PM

Hungarian member of the European Parliament and member of the right-wing party "Jobbik" Csanad Szegedi delivers a speech to his supporters during a demonstration untitled "To be members, or to be free?" and called by right-wing parliamental party 'Jobbik' against European Union in front of the European Union Parliament and Commitee headquarters in downtown Budapest on January 14, 2012.

Hungarian member of the European Parliament and member of the right-wing party “Jobbik” Csanad Szegedi delivers a speech to his supporters during a demonstration untitled “To be members, or to be free?” and called by right-wing parliamental party ‘Jobbik’ against European Union in front of the European Union Parliament and Commitee headquarters in downtown Budapest on January 14, 2012.

Photograph by: AFP PHOTO / FERENC ISZA , AFP PHOTO / FERENC ISZA

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY — 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 rumours, 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 labour camps.

Since then, the 30-year-old has become a pariah in Jobbik and his political career is on the brink of collapse. He declined to be interviewed for this story.

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4 Replies to “Leader of anti-Semitic party in Hungary discovers he is Jewish”

  1. Back in the 60s they discovered that one of the top American Nazi’s (or KKK I don’t remember which) was Jewish.

  2. Hungarian Far-Right Lawmaker Meets Rabbi after Discovering Jewish Roots

    His parliamentary status notwithstanding, Mr. Szegedi appears to have befriended his “controversial” heritage. The ex-Jobbik vice-president has met Hungary’s chief orthodox rabbi and promised to visit Auschwitz, where his grand mother had been held by Nazi soldiers.

    “Had I made any comments in the past years that offended the Jewish community, I ask for forgiveness,” Mr. Szegedi told Rabbi Slomo Koves, according to Nepszabadsag. “Now that I have been faced with my Jewish roots, that I do not regret at all, keeping in touch with the leaders of the Hungarian Jewish community has become especially important for me,” he said.

    “I was stunned,” Mr. Koves said when recalling his reaction after Mr. Szegedi’s initial request for a meeting. “But as a rabbi, it is my duty to receive anybody who requests advice or help,” he said. “I wish for him that he be able to redeem the past years. He can do that best, if, apart from getting to know his own roots, he does everything in his power to keep others from being led astray, like he had been,” the rabbi said.