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<\/a>As a rising star in Hungary\u2019s far-right Jobbik Party, Csanad Szegedi was notorious for his incendiary comments on Jews: He accused them of \u201cbuying up\u201d the country, railed about the \u201cJewishness\u201d of the political elite and claimed Jews were desecrating national symbols.<\/span><\/p>\nThen came a revelation that knocked him off his perch as ultra-nationalist standard-bearer: Szegedi himself is a Jew.<\/span><\/p>\n Following weeks of Internet rumours, Szegedi acknowledged in June that his grandparents on his mother\u2019s side were Jews \u2014 making him one too under Jewish law, even though he doesn\u2019t practice the faith. His grandmother was an Auschwitz survivor and his grandfather a veteran of forced labour camps.<\/span><\/p>\n 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.<\/span><\/p>\n At the root of the drama is an audio tape of a 2010 meeting between Szegedi and a convicted felon. Szegedi acknowledges that the meeting took place but contends the tape was altered in unspecified ways; Jobbik considers it real.<\/span><\/p>\n In the recording, the felon is heard confronting Szegedi with evidence of his Jewish roots. Szegedi sounds surprised, then offers money and favours in exchange for keeping quiet.<\/span><\/p>\n Under pressure, Szegedi resigned last month from all party positions and gave up his Jobbik membership. That wasn\u2019t good enough for the party: Last week it asked him to give up his seat in the European Parliament as well. Jobbik says its issue is the suspected bribery, not his Jewish roots.<\/span><\/p>\n Szegedi came to prominence in 2007 as a founding member of the Hungarian Guard, a group whose black uniforms and striped flags recalled the Arrow Cross, a pro-Nazi party which briefly governed Hungary at the end of World War II and killed thousands of Jews. In all, 550,000 Hungarian Jews were killed during the Holocaust, most of them after being sent in trains to death camps like Auschwitz. The Hungarian Guard was banned by the courts in 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n By then, Szegedi had already joined the Jobbik Party, which was launched in 2003 to become the country\u2019s biggest far-right political force. He soon became one of its most vocal and visible members, and a pillar of the party leadership. Since 2009, he has served in the European Parliament in Brussels as one of the party\u2019s three EU lawmakers, a position he says he wants to keep.<\/span><\/p>\n The fallout of Szegedi\u2019s ancestry saga has extended to his business interests. Jobbik executive director Gabor Szabo is pulling out of an Internet site selling nationalist Hungarian merchandise that he owns with Szegedi. Szabo said his sister has resigned as Szegedi\u2019s personal assistant.<\/span><\/p>\n In the 2010 tape, former convict Zoltan Ambrus is heard telling Szegedi that he has documents proving Szegedi is Jewish. The right-wing politician seems genuinely surprised by the news \u2014 and offers EU funds and a possible EU job to Ambrus to hush it up.<\/span><\/p>\n Ambrus, who served time in prison on a weapons and explosives conviction, apparently rejected the bribes. He said he secretly taped the conversation as part of an internal Jobbik power struggle aimed at ousting Szegedi from a local party leadership post. The party\u2019s reaction was swift.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe have no alternative but to ask him to return his EU mandate,\u201d said Jobbik president Gabor Vona. \u201cJobbik does not investigate the heritage of its members or leadership, but instead takes into consideration what they have done for the nation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Szegedi\u2019s experience is not unique: The Holocaust was a taboo subject during Hungary\u2019s decades of communist rule that ended in 1990, and many survivors chose to keep their ordeals to themselves. Russian far-right firebrand Vladimir Zhirinovsky was anti-Semitic until he acknowledged in 2001 that his father was Jewish.<\/span><\/p>\n Szegedi, who was raised Presbyterian, acknowledged his Jewish origins in June interviews with Hungarian media, including news broadcaster Hir TV and Barikad, Jobbik\u2019s weekly magazine. He said that after the meeting with Ambrus, he had a long conversation with his grandmother, who spoke about her family\u2019s past as Orthodox Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt was then that it dawned on me that my grandmother really is Jewish,\u201d Szegedi told Hir TV. \u201cI asked her how the deportations happened. She was in Auschwitz and Dachau and she was the only survivor in the extended family.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Judaism is traced from mother to child, meaning that under Jewish law Szegedi is Jewish. Szegedi said he defines himself as someone with \u201cancestry of Jewish origin \u2014 because I declare myself 100 per cent Hungarian.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n In the interview with Hir TV, Szegedi denied ever having made anti-Semitic statements, but several of his speeches and media appearances show otherwise.<\/span><\/p>\n In a November 2010 interview on Hungarian state television, Szegedi blamed the large-scale privatization of state assets after the end of communism on \u201cpeople in the Hungarian political elite who shielded themselves in their Jewishness.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Speaking on a morning program in late 2010, he said that \u201cthe problem the radical right has with the Jews\u201d was that Jewish artists, actors and intellectuals had desecrated Hungary\u2019s national symbols like the Holy Crown of St. Stephen, the country\u2019s first Christian king.<\/span><\/p>\n Szegedi also complained of \u201cmassive real estate purchases being done in Hungary, where \u2014 it\u2019s no secret \u2014 they want to bring in Israeli residents.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Szegedi met in early August with Rabbi Slomo Koves, of Hungary\u2019s Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch community, whose own parents were in their teens when they discovered they were Jewish.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAs a rabbi … it is my duty to receive every person who is in a situation of crisis and especially a Jew who has just now faced his heritage,\u201d Koves said.<\/span><\/p>\n During the meeting, Szegedi apologized for any statements which may have offended the Jewish community, and vowed to visit Auschwitz to pay his respects.<\/span><\/p>\n Koves described the conversation as \u201cdifficult and spiritually stressful,\u201d but said he is hopeful for a successful outcome.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cCsanad Szegedi is in the middle of a difficult process of reparation, self-knowledge, re-evaluation and learning, which according to our hopes and interests, should conclude in a positive manner,\u201d Koves said. \u201cWhether this will occur or not is first and foremost up to him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Source <\/a><\/p>\n Zionists profit the most from \u2018anti-Semitism\u2019, using it to keep their \u2018lesser brethren\u2019 in line. So no surprise that Hungary\u2019s rising political star, notorious for his \u2018anti-Semitism\u2019, has been revealed as Jewish <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Behind_The_News","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54450"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54684,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54450\/revisions\/54684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Comment \u2013 August 15, 2012<\/h1>\n
Talk about dumb-assed journalism. The above article seems to assume that Csanad Szegedi was unaware of his Jewish origins.<\/h5>\n
Szegedi may indeed just be feigning ignorance over his Jewish background and he\u2019s not alone. This disclosure echoes\u00a0the sordid tale\u00a0of Francis Joseph “Frank” Collin <\/span><\/a>(born Francis Joseph Cohen, November 3, 1944), who formerly served as the leader of the National Socialist Party of America<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/h5>\n
It also echoes those other Jews, who\u2019ve carried out incidents of \u201canti-Semitism\u201d:<\/h5>\n
NYPD charge Jewish man with anti-Semitic threats<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n
Jewish Man Held for Arson Attack on Paris Jewish Centre<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n
Woman\u2019s Swastika Ordeal Exposed as Fantasy<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n
Campus Shocked by Allegation Professor Staged Vandalism<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n
3 charged in Pikesville vandalism<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n
How to spot an antisemitic hate crime hoax<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n
As we pointed out in the intro, those who benefit from anti-Semitism are the Zionist elite themselves. In fact they often foment it themselves to keep their \u2018lesser brethren\u2019 in line.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"