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King_David

(14,851 posts)
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 01:24 AM Dec 2012

Hungarian MP detained for burning Israeli flag

Balazs Lenhardt participated in an anti-Semitic event where demonstrators shouted "Filthy Jews," "to Auschwitz with you all."

Independent parliamentarian Balazs Lenhardt was detained by Budapest police on Friday evening for burning an Israeli flag at an anti-Zionist demonstration in the Hungarian capital, Hungarian daily Politics reported.

A hundred demonstrators participated in the event organized by the Guardians of Carpathian Homeland Movement and the Guard Federation held in front of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry, according to Politics.

Demonstrators shouted anti-Semitic slogans like "Filthy Jews" and "To Auschwitz With You All."

The Hungarian Foreign Ministry condemned “the shameful, instigatory speeches insulting a minority,” as well as the burning of the Israel flag that the ministry considered "an act suited for instigating hatred against a country, against a nation," Politics reported.

http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=295994

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King_David

(14,851 posts)
1. ' at an anti-Zionist demonstration in the Hungarian capital'
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 01:26 AM
Dec 2012

''Demonstrators shouted anti-Semitic slogans like "Filthy Jews" and "To Auschwitz With You All ''


This was at an ''an anti-Zionist demonstration ''
 

holdencaufield

(2,927 posts)
2. It's always embarrassing when ...
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 03:10 AM
Dec 2012

... an "anti-Zionist" lets their mask slip.

We call it an "ideology malfunction".

King_David

(14,851 posts)
6. Here is another example of an anti Zionist ,Anti Israel demonstration,
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 05:52 PM
Dec 2012

'In Belgium, some participants at an anti-Israel demonstration on Sunday in Antwerp reportedly called for Jews to be gassed. Approximately 150 demonstrators -- extreme rightists and extreme leftists -- convened outside the Provinciehuis concert hall in the Flemish capital to protest the IDF orchestra’s performance there, according to the online edition of the Flemish-Jewish magazine Joods Actueel.

Several demonstrators can be heard chanting “Hamas, Hamas, all Jews to the gas” in recordings from the gathering posted on the Joods Actueel site.

The audio will be filed to police along with an official complaint over hate speech, the paper reported.'


http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/11/18/3112226/thousands-of-australian-jews-rally-for-israel

King_David

(14,851 posts)
7. Another Example
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 05:56 PM
Dec 2012

'As the Jerusalem Post reported last week, an employee of Amnesty International in London has attracted much criticism for a tweet that, disguised as a joke, suggested that three Jewish members of the British parliament supported a massive bombing campaign of Gaza.

The offensive tweet was soon deleted, and as of this writing, the Amnesty employee in question, Kristyan Benedict, has refrained from posting new tweets; Amnesty also has reportedly “distanced itself from the tweet and said the matter has been referred to its internal, and confidential, processes.”'


http://blogs.jpost.com/content/just-another-anti-zionist-amnesty

King_David

(14,851 posts)
5. I disagree with delrem we just posted the facts as they occurred.
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 03:46 PM
Dec 2012

You may not like the facts? Nor do we..

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)
8. JPost says he is independant but everything I can Google up on Balazs Lenhardt
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 06:07 PM
Dec 2012

says he's Jobik I'm not posting any of it because the sources are antisemtic for the most part bemoaning his arrest that said what happened in Hungary is disgusting and wrong and Jobik is a neoNazi extremist right wing party and that party along with those that support it deserve to be roundly condemned

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