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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 534

Gabor Vona

Márton Gyöngyösi is vice chairman of Hungary's parliamentary foreign affairs committee and head of international affairs for the Jobbik party. (Courtesy)
April 7, 2018, 9:19 am
Jobbik leader says Jews should trust the radical Hungarian party’s ‘rebranding’
Márton Gyöngyösi, who himself once said Israel was ‘running on a ‘Nazi system,’ insists ahead of Hungary’s contentious elections that his party is no longer racist
By Yaakov Schwartz
Chairman of the Jobbik party Gabor Vona. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/Peter Kohalmi)
December 15, 2017, 10:51 pm
Head of Hungary’s Jobbik renounces party’s anti-Semitic ways
Gabor Vona says he wants to move his far-right party closer to the center, earlier anti-Semitsm ‘impossible to imagine’
By Pablo Gorondi
Far-right Hungarian MP Gabor Vona speaks to a crowd on January 26, 2014 in London, England. (Dan Dennison/Getty Images via JTA)
January 13, 2017, 9:52 pm
Hungarian far-right leader says he respects Israel’s right to exist
Leader of Jobbik, a party with history of anti-Semitic statements, recently sent Hanukkah greetings to two prominent local rabbis
By JTA
Chairman of the radical nationalist Jobbik party Gabor Vona, delivers a speech after the parliamentary elections in the Budapest Congress Centre in Budapest, Hungary, April 6, 2014. (AP Photo/MTI, Janos Marjai)
June 7, 2016, 7:25 am
Leader of Hungary’s far-right Jobbik bolsters power
Gabor Vona boots outspoken lawmaker Elod Novak from parliament, but he is replaced by deputies no less radical
By AP
Chairman of the Jobbik party Gabor Vona. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/Peter Kohalmi)
May 31, 2015, 1:13 am
Hungary’s far-right Jobbik looks to rehab image in bid to lead
Once seen as fringe, anti-Semitic faction, party seeks to tone down rhetoric as it sets sights on taking power in 2018 election
By AFP
Chairman of the far-right parliamentary JOBBIK (Better) party, Gabor Vona, talks about the party program in Ajka, Hungary, April 9 2015. (photo credit: AFP/ATTILA KISBENEDEK)
April 14, 2015, 12:15 am
After by-election win, Hungary’s far-right Jobbik vows to prune racism
Gabor Vona, who aims to challenge for premiership in three years, tries to shed party’s extremist image
By AP and AFP
Chairman of the Jobbik party Gabor Vona. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/Peter Kohalmi)
April 7, 2014, 2:41 pm
Hungary’s ‘neo-Nazi’ Jobbik gains with image shift
Radical nationalist party’s 20% election success due in part to campaign to shed its anti-Roma and anti-Semitic rhetoric
By Patrick Murphy
The interior of Budapest's Dohany Street Synagogue. (photo credit: Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel staff)
May 5, 2013, 1:59 pm
WJC assembly opens in Budapest following anti-Zionist rally
Hungarian PM set to address more than 600 delegates and observers
Afi Hossein Jarhomi, right, the founder of the Hungarian Iranian Business Group, attends a meeting with Jobbik chairman Gabor Vona, third from right, and visiting Iranians. (tiszavasvari.hu via JTA)
March 11, 2013, 7:20 pm
Iran and Hungarian party form anti-Semitic alliance
Isolated and anti-Western, a pair of pariahs find common ground in their outspoken opposition to Jewish interests
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Thousands of people attend a protest called Mass Demonstration Against Nazism, in front of the Parliament building in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, Dec. 2 (photo credit: AP/MTI, Laszlo Beliczay)
December 2, 2012, 9:42 pm
Hungary holds landmark anti-Nazi protest, after far-right lawmaker called to ‘screen Jews’ as security risks
Budapest rally is ‘the most important demonstration since Hungary became a democracy,’ says Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel director
By AP and ToI Staff
Efraim Zuroff
November 25, 2012, 11:21 pm
Efraim Zuroff
A bright moment in Budapest
An inspiring rally of 3,000 Hungarians in support of Israel and against the anti-Semitic Jobbik party
Csanad Szegedi celebrating his entry into the European Parliament after the European parliamentary election in Budapest, Hungary in 2009. (photo credit: AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky, File)
August 15, 2012, 12:20 am
Far-right Jobbik Party’s Csanad Szegedi and the glass house
Formerly outspoken Hungarian anti-Semitic politician turns out to be Jewish — making him a pariah in his own party and leaving his political career on brink of collapse
By Pablo Gorondi
August 2, 2012, 12:06 pm
Hungarian lawmaker resigns from anti-Semitic Jobbik Party after revealing Jewish origins
Jobbik officials claim not to take issue with Csanad Szegedi’s Jewish background, rather the attempts to conceal it
May 13, 2012, 10:06 am
Far-right party in Hungary protests austerity
Jobbik leader Gabor Vona said the country’s Jews were ‘anti-Hungarian’
By Pablo Gorondi
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