Parliament member György Szilágyi, the vice-president of Jobbik, posted on Facebook that for political reasons Viktor Orbán is "right now dividing people into those with protection cards and those without." The representative came up with the following analogy about this:
"What's the next step? Anyone who doesn't have a protection card will be locked up in a concentration camp?"
György Szilágyi, Source: mandiner.hu
To mandiner.hu, Chief Rabbi Tamás Róna, president of the Magyarhoni Jewish Imaegylet, i.e. ZSIMA, responded to the statement of the politician from Jobbik as follows:
One of the most painful and terrible periods of the twentieth century was the Second World War, and the essence of inhumanity was the concentration camp. Everyone should learn from this tragedy! If an opinion-forming personality in Hungary claims that anyone who is not vaccinated for any reason will be locked up in a concentration camp, as a religious person and as a rabbi, I must reject it most definitely. This is unacceptable
- said the chief rabbi, who is currently working as the leader of a religious association belonging to the neologism, which was founded last year and is expanding.
Rabbi Tamás Róna, Source: MTI/Csaba Bús, illustration
Tamás Róna explained: the vaccine against the coronavirus is not only about ourselves, but about the protection of our peers, relatives and friends, and ultimately the entire country. From this point of view, it is our duty to take advantage of the opportunity, since it appears as a basic principle in the pages of the common scripture: "we are called to protect our brother".
In addition, as long as health care workers work tirelessly and fight beyond their means for each and every one of our compatriots, this kind of expression, which relativizes the Holocaust and at the same time destroys trust in vaccination, is simply not allowed.
There is no place in enlightened Europe for an attitude that is anti-Semitic or racist
- emphasized the president of ZSIMA in connection with the statements of the politician from Jobbik.
It is particularly interesting that Szilágyi is running in the primary election with the support of the increasingly weak LMP, despite the fact that the politician previously saw the SZDSZ and the colonization efforts of a "certain state" behind them.
The MSZP is entering into an alliance with Jobbik, that is, a party against which they wore a yellow star in the parliament in 2012!
Source: 24.hu
In 2013, Szilágyi, who started his career as a football player and later as a MIÉP politician, also spoke about - which was even brought up by Political Capital as an argument in a later research justifying the anti-Semitism of the then popular Jobbik camp - that
the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the organization of incitement of hatred and anti-Hungarian incitement, launched an attack against Hungary again. Jobbik therefore calls on the government to ban the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Hungary and expel its non-Hungarian employees from the country.
You can read the full article on Mandine here and here.
Featured image: vaconline.hu
