Comments on: Gideon Levy And Holocaust Commemoration http://blog.z-word.com/2010/01/gideon-levy-and-holocaust-commemoration/ Commentary about Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism and the conflict in the Middle East Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:05:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5-RC1.1 By: Karl Pfeifer http://blog.z-word.com/2010/01/gideon-levy-and-holocaust-commemoration/#comment-9572 Karl Pfeifer Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:05:33 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1513#comment-9572 Excellent comment Eamonn McDonagh. However when the Israeli Government sends Foreign Minister Lieberman to Hungary on Holocaust day it looks to me as counterproductive. Here in Vienna I published yesterday morning in a weekly a report on the strengthening of collaboration between the extreme right Austrian Freedom Party and Hungarian Jobbik. The only reaction to this was a press release of Vienna Jewish community. A small notice last Thursday in the weekly of the extreme right wing Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) about strengthening the collaboration between the Hungarian national-socialist Jobbik party and FPÖ was not picked up by the Austrian Media. I happened to be the first to publish a short report on January 27 in the Vienna weekly Falter. Serious papers maintained that the FPÖ will reject racism and Anti-Semitism and would refuse to collaborate with the NPD in Germany, the National Front in France or Jobbik in Hungary. They were wrong. Jobbik is openly and explicitly anti-Semitic while the FPÖ strives for social acceptance. Jobbik hallucinates about Jews wanting to occupy Hungary. Unlike the Nazis Jobbik does not maintain that biology prevents Jews from changing their behaviour; they even have a few ‘good’ Jews in their ranks, which serve as fig-leafs against the accusation of Anti-Semitism. Yet Jobbik is explicitly racist, to the point that its program proposes between other measures also the “segregation” of young Roma. Excellent comment Eamonn McDonagh.

However when the Israeli Government sends Foreign Minister Lieberman to Hungary on Holocaust day it looks to me as counterproductive.

Here in Vienna I published yesterday morning in a weekly a report on the strengthening of collaboration between the extreme right Austrian Freedom Party and Hungarian Jobbik. The only reaction to this was a press release of Vienna Jewish community.

A small notice last Thursday in the weekly of the extreme right wing Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) about strengthening the collaboration between the Hungarian national-socialist Jobbik party and FPÖ was not picked up by the Austrian Media. I happened to be the first to publish a short report on January 27 in the Vienna weekly Falter.
Serious papers maintained that the FPÖ will reject racism and Anti-Semitism and would refuse to collaborate with the NPD in Germany, the National Front in France or Jobbik in Hungary. They were wrong.
Jobbik is openly and explicitly anti-Semitic while the FPÖ strives for social acceptance. Jobbik hallucinates about Jews wanting to occupy Hungary. Unlike the Nazis Jobbik does not maintain that biology prevents Jews from changing their behaviour; they even have a few ‘good’ Jews in their ranks, which serve as fig-leafs against the accusation of Anti-Semitism. Yet Jobbik is explicitly racist, to the point that its program proposes between other measures also the “segregation” of young Roma.

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