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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 596

Jobbik party

Laszlo Toroczkai, center, head of the Our Homeland Movement, is flanked by police officers during a protest in Budapest, Hungary, Monday, March 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Laszlo Balogh)
April 6, 2022, 4:05 pm
Hungary’s most radical nationalist party since WWII just won 7 seats in parliament
The far-right Our Homeland Movement is now the country’s third-largest party. Budapest chapter president Atilla Nagy speaks to ToI in a candid interview at the local headquarters
By Yaakov Schwartz
Prime Minister Viktor Orban greets his supporters prior to delivering a speech during the final electoral rally of his Fidesz party ahead of Sunday's election, in Szekesfehervar, Hungary, Friday, April 1, 2022 (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
April 3, 2022, 3:23 am
Vote for Orban or party with neo-Nazi record? Hungary’s Jews torn on Sunday election
Right-wing populist government is in tight race for power with alliance of opposition parties whose largest contingent comes from far-right Jobbik party
By Cnaan Liphshiz
In this file photo taken on August 28, 2016, a woman walks outside the building housing the Israeli NSO group, in Herzliya. (Jack Guez/AFP)
July 19, 2021, 3:26 pm
European leaders blast use of Israeli spyware to target activists, reporters
After report on NSO sales, EU Commission head says free press is core value for bloc; Hungarian opposition demands probe into government’s alleged use of the technology
By Agencies
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban attends a round table meeting at an EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels, October 15, 2020 (Yves Herman, Pool via AP)
October 17, 2020, 10:34 am
Hungary’s Orban says Jewish group ignores anti-Semitism as left, far-right unite
PM charges Mazsihisz not speaking out over candidate with history of making racist comments about Jews; group denies claim by Orban, himself accused of fomenting hatred
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Jobbik party President Peter Jakab. (Municipality of Miskolc via JTA)
January 26, 2020, 5:27 pm
Great-grandfather of new leader of Hungary’s far-right Jobbik died in Auschwitz
Peter Jakab has said Jews generate anti-Semitism for financial gain; a practicing Catholic, his roots also include a Jewish grandmother
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Some of the 600 members of the Jobbik created extreme-right wing "Magyar Garda" or Hungarian guard stand during their swearing-in ceremony in Budapest, Hungary, on Oct. 21, 2007, wearing black uniforms bearing a variation on the red-and-white Arpad Stripes associated with Hungary's Nazi-aligned Arrow Cross party of WWII (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky
August 13, 2019, 1:56 am
In Hungary, some left-wing Jews ready to work with party led by former neo-Nazi
A common opposition to nine-year rule of Prime Minister Viktor Orban creates strange partnerships, including between Jewish groups and virulently anti-Semitic Jobbik party
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Istvan Szavay of the opposition right-wing party Jobbik party participates in a parliament debate in Budapest, Hungary, April 19, 2017. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)
December 3, 2018, 8:27 am
Hungary politician resigns top positions over recording of anti-Semitic act
Jobbik party member Istvan Szavay caught on tape admitting to verbally and physically assaulting a Jewish woman
By JTA
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and members of his FIDESZ party celebrate from the podium on the bank of the Danube River after winning the parliamentary election on April 8, 2018 in Budapest. (AFP PHOTO/ATTILA KISBENEDEK)
April 9, 2018, 2:10 am
Hungary’s Orban claims victory as nationalist party takes sweeping poll lead
Firebrand PM set for third term with renewed mandate for his hardline anti-immigration policies and rejection of the EU’s refugee resettlement program
By Peter Murphy and Jastinder KHERA
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers his speech during the last campaign event of his Fidesz party in Szekesfehervar, Hungary, on April 6, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / FERENC ISZA)
April 8, 2018, 5:52 am
Hungarians vote Sunday in keenly watched poll
Polls have consistently put PM Orban and his right-wing Fidesz party 20 or more points clear of far-right Jobbik
By Jastinder KHERA
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers his speech during the last campaign event of his Fidesz party in Szekesfehervar, Hungary on April 6, 2018. Hungarians vote in elections on April 8, 2108 that polls suggest will give Prime Minister Viktor Orban athird consecutive term. ( AFP PHOTO / FERENC ISZA)
April 7, 2018, 1:55 pm
Hungary’s Orban tipped for re-election, but upset not ruled out
Central European nation goes to polls on Sunday in a campaign that has been dominated by warnings about mass immigration by Muslims and Africans
By Peter Murphy
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
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers a speech in front of the building of the Hungarian Parliament in Budapest on March 15, 2018, during the official commemoration of the 170th anniversary of the 1848-1849 Hungarian revolution. (AFP PHOTO / Attila KISBENEDEK)
April 4, 2018, 5:53 pm
Hungary’s Orban set for third term after rocky campaign
Nationalist leader steps up long-running attacks against US Jewish philanthropist George Soros, accusing him of encouraging illegal immigration
By Peter Murphy
Jobbik party supporters burning an EU flag at a rally in Budapest in 2012. (screen capture/YouTube)
March 27, 2018, 7:39 am
Hungary’s rebranded far-right Jobbik eyes Orban ouster
For many, the movement’s transformation from its racist roots into a ‘people’s party’ has been suspiciously quick
By Peter Murphy
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
'1945' director Ferenc Török, left, and co-writer Gábor Szántó. (Jordan Hoffman/Times of Israel)
November 1, 2017, 3:00 am
Black and white ‘1945’ shows Jews in post-war Hungary faced a rainbow of gray
Hungarian filmmakers Ferenc Török and Gábor Szántó say real-time feature is a ‘palinka parable,’ with anonymous archetypical characters in nod to American Westerns
By Jordan Hoffman
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