BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The mayor of a town in eastern Hungary has held an event hanging effigies of the prime minister and former president of Israel to protest the war in Gaza.
Mihaly Zoltan Orosz, who has been mayor of Erpatak since 2005, told The Associated Press Monday that the “Jewish terror state” is trying to obliterate the Palestinians and said he opposed “the efforts of Freemason Jews to rule the world.”
Hungary’s foreign ministry condemned the mayor’s actions, saying he was using innocent victims of the war “to spread hate-inducing propaganda.”
An online video of Saturday’s event shows an executioner with a black hood over his face kicking chairs out from under the puppets of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former President Shimon Peres, each tied to a gallows.
Plus ca change.
In much of the world, plus ca change …
Sounds like Jobbik is hard at work…
“Freemason Jews”?? Didn’t think Jews could be Freemasons nor would they want to be. But we’re not talking about Mensa either.
Conspiracy theories mix freely and irrationally. Remember that these particular “people” (I use the term loosely in connection with neo-Nazis) assailing Jews for the deaths of Palestinians also loathe, fear and preach against Arabs in Europe. They “care” about Arab deaths only if it allows an easy justification for their even older and deeper anti-Judaism.
There are a number of people, including Krugman, who have expressed concerns about Hungary being on a path to Fascism.
Nothing to see here, move along.