You can tell that the dear reader is probably anti-Semitic - if he is Hungarian - from the fact that a CEU professor researched it, and the results were given to Telex. Shame on everyone who hasn't done it yet, even though it has been said that Hungary is on the podium in anti-Semitism, and anti-Semitism at home rivals that of Western European Muslims .

Telex published an article with this title last year, but Ádám Kolozsi, the author, has not been able to break away from the topic since then, so this week he published another clickbait article on the matter: The government paid for a study on European anti-Semitism, but he does not believe the results , because it was not what he expected .

The research was carried out in 16 European countries, including our country, on representative samples, and the leader of the research, a CEU professor named András Kovács, finally came to this conclusion:

"The current research proved that the number of serious acts of violence and the degree of anti-Semitic prejudice show essentially no correlation... In many countries with high anti-Semitic prejudice, such as Hungary, Romania and Slovakia, a negligible number of acts of violence were registered. By contrast, many anti-Semitic atrocities – attacks, harassment and vandalism – occur in countries with low rates of anti-Semitic prejudice, such as France, the UK and Germany.”

Well, sew a button on it! But Telex's following line of thought is equally high-flying and no less "logical":

"According to the research data, anti-Semitism is indeed much stronger among European Muslims than among non-Muslims, and anti-Israelism among them is quite pervasive. However, it is worth adding that if we only look at the acceptance of traditional anti-Jewish prejudices, according to the survey, it is even slightly higher in Hungary than among Western European Muslims, and this is also the case in several other Eastern and Central European countries.

The research initiated by Tett és Védelem Alápítvány therefore ultimately tries to explain to us that, yes, we feel guilty for our anti-Semitic prejudices, i.e. for our traditional anti-Jewishness - we will come back to what exactly this means - despite the fact that the government shows zero tolerance against anti-Semitism, and nowadays the 100,000-200,000 Hungarian Jews thank you, they are doing well, and they are experiencing a renaissance in Hungary. By the way, this is not my claim, but the author of the British newspaper Financial Times, who, according to him

"Jewish life in Budapest is experiencing a renaissance. A diverse audience of schools, community centers, welfare and social organizations, and synagogues can enjoy the flourishing renewal.”

But if you don't believe him, let's believe the numbers, because according to the Mazsihisz data , 53 atrocities occurred in 2019 and 70 in 2020, and in the last year, one case out of 70 was a physical atrocity. According to TEV data, there were 35 cases in 2019 and 30 in 2020, of which 22 were hate speech, one was discrimination, six were vandalism and one was a threat.

In contrast, 339 atrocities took place in France last year, due to covid this is much less than the 687 attacks in 2019. There were 1,668 atrocities in the United Kingdom last year, and 1,805 in 2019, but no one can push Germany off the negative podium, where the number of atrocities rose to 2,275 last year compared to 2,032 attacks in 2019. In Italy, there were 251 cases in 2019 and 230 last year, and although the data in the Netherlands show a decrease, 135 attacks took place last year, and 309 in 2019, but this affected a fairly small community, concentrated in one or two cities, so its impact may be increased.

It is worth adding to all of this that the progressive Western authorities like to play tricks when recording the background of the attackers, arguing that if, for example, a Muslim attacker attacked a Jew with "Allahu akbaroz", it is not at all certain that he did it out of anti-Semitic considerations. Therefore, he would certainly have performed well in such research, i.e. free of anti-Semitic prejudices. Let me note that this is precisely the iron ring logic that András Kovács and Telex used, and the point is that the real picture should not be revealed to the general public even by accident.

Slomó Köves and Vince Szalay-Bobrovniczky, the Deputy State Secretary of the Prime Minister's Office responsible for church relations, also spoke about the research. According to the former

"it is worth approaching the issue of anti-Semitism first of all from the point of view of the safety of Jewish communities", and indicated that an element of a complex research on a sensitive topic was taken out of the Telex context and used as clickbait and a political weapon.

Szalay-Bobrovniczky stated in an interview with the Jewish political and cultural magazine Szombat that

"this is not a situation, but a poll, which, in our opinion, does not reflect reality. It is unbelievable that Hungary would be among the five most anti-Semitic countries, while (in contrast to the situation in Western Europe) Hungarian Jews are not subject to atrocities, they can live their lives in safety and in accordance with their traditions, the state institutions provide them with full protection, the public discourse rejects it anti-Semitism."

A recent Telex article reflects on this, once again quoting András Kovács, professor at CEU – the university that the government “kicked out” of Hungary – who responded to government criticism of his research as follows:

"I find it worrisome that even at such a high level of the state apparatus, educated people struggle with serious text interpretation difficulties. It would only be more worrying if they hadn't even read the text they were talking about."

According to Kovács, Szalay-Bobrovniczky's views on anti-Semitism research

"they are a valuable resource for a researcher dealing with the history of our era, even if the Deputy Secretary of State clearly does not understand what he is talking about. We can learn from them how the people of the Hungarian state thought in 2022 about what a good social science worthy of state support is like. Mostly something that willingly confirms the image that lives in their head of the world".

However, Ádám Kolozsi of the telex manages to put a shovel on even this, when he educates the Deputy State Secretary, who mentioned it in his interview

"it is not clear for what reason the Tett és Védelem Alápítvány ordered a similar, clearly tendentious poll".

And then let's see Kolozsi's reply, who writes that according to TEV's previous statement , the Hungarian government supports the fight against anti-Semitism at the European level with HUF 525 million in 2019, and HUF 500 million automatically included in the budget from 2020.

"The budget contributes to the establishment of the European Action and Defense League, which will carry out extensive activities in the fields of law-making, justice, monitoring research and the education system".

In English, the government did not specifically support this tendentious research, but "the fight against anti-Semitism at the European level".

And then let's summarize what we know so far:

One: the Hungarian government, which is often labeled "dictatorial, autocratic, fascist" in left-liberal circles, is contributing HUF 500 million to the establishment of a European organization that will carry out extensive activities in the fields of law-making, justice, monitoring research and the education system. Telex address: The government paid for a study on European anti-Semitism, but does not believe the results, because the results were not what he expected.

Two: the name of the research Anti-Semitic prejudice in Europe - 2020 . Telex title: Hungary tops the podium in anti-Semitism, domestic anti-Semitism rivals that of Western European Muslims.

Three: a professor of a university lives, thrives, and conducts research in Hungary, which was expelled from our country, and then this professor accuses the critic of his research of having difficulty understanding the text, if he does not understand why it is important to measure anti- Semitic prejudice to spend instead of measuring anti-Semitic violent crimes fairly. They decide what anti-Semitic prejudice is, of course, because the thought police researchers identify someone as prejudiced (and then the Telex is simply anti-Semitic) based on such guided questions as, for example, whether the respondent thinks that the Jews are trying to take advantage of the Holocaust or Jesus Christ crucifixion is the unforgivable sin of the Jews to this day?

So, if you, the dear reader, think or have ever experienced that some people of Jewish origin (and not Jews in general) are still trying to profit from the persecution of their people today, I recommend the Mit Akar ? Discriminating Jews? an excellent article by Gábor Sebes - then he must be suffering from some form of anti-Semitic prejudice, so it can already be blamed.

And this has no other purpose than mixing feelings and antipathy, thoughts, personal opinions with violent crimes, so that the results of the research can as needed , and in order to cover up the real, tangible problems. The creators know exactly that these problems - literally cutting into the flesh - do exist, since the European Union imported them, but is unable to solve them.

Four: according to the CEU professor, Szalay-Bobrovniczky believes that a social science worthy of state support is one that confirms the image in his head. Excuse me, but who else here has difficulty with reading comprehension? Did the professor really not consider it an option that, contrary to the image in his head, the Deputy Secretary of State lacked confirmation of reality from the research? Just like he said anyway.

Or wouldn't getting to know reality also be the goal of the sciences, including the social sciences, in contrast to the very relativizing, tendentious finger-picking presented above, which intentionally abuses language and consciously ignores cause-and-effect relationships?

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