"It wasn't that long ago," Chief Rabbi Tamás Róna, founder of the Magyarhoni Jewish Imaegylet (Zsima), told Mandiner regarding the infamous scandal involving the listing of Jews by Márton Gyöngyösi. According to Róna, in the light of the tragedies of the twentieth century, the entire Jewish world raised its head at Gyöngyösi's outrageous sentences.
"When a party today in the parliament that represents democracy is able to elect as its leader a person who recently wanted to list the Jews, barely seventy years after the Holocaust, it is difficult to get a word in. This should not happen, it is morally simply unacceptable," said the president of Zsima.
Known: Gyöngyösi was elected president of Jobbik the other day, after Péter Jakab - shortly after his re-election - was forced to resign from the post. He is succeeded by the party's EP representative, who in 2012, as a member of Parliament, said the following in the Parliament: "It would be time to assess how many Jews live here, and especially in the Hungarian Parliament and the Hungarian government there is a person who poses a certain national security risk for Hungary."
Because of the statement, parties other than Jobbik stood united against anti-Semitism and exclusion, they even held a joint demonstration in Kossuth Square, where Attila Mesterházy, Gordon Bajnai and Antal Rogán spoke one after the other.
According to Gyöngyösi, today only the "party press" deals with this matter, otherwise he promises a pro-European, value-oriented, self-identified Jobbik that accepts its own principles, stressing that "they want to offer a way out of today's problems by responding to the problems of the Hungarian people and the questions of national destiny". .
Participants in the demonstration called Mass Demonstration against Nazism in Kossuth Lajos tér in the capital on December 2, 2012, organized by Mazsihisz, Hit Yülekezete and Élet Menete Foundation at the initiative of the Mindannyian Együtt Jeruzsálemért Foundation. (MTI/László Beliczay)
However, the head of the Magyarhoni Zsidó Imaegylet has now recalled to our newspaper: Gyöngyösi's scandalous statement at the time opened deep wounds and caused serious pain. The chief rabbi also mentioned that the
"during the current election campaign, we noted with serious fear and concern that an alliance was born on a political basis that we previously thought was unthinkable: the left joined forces with an anti-Semitic party".
According to Zsima, Jobbik can still carry anti-Semitic and racist communication, which is why it remains unacceptable. Therefore, it is necessary to believe again and again that no one should be excluded from society.
The position of the Tett és Védelem Foundation regarding Jobbik has not changed either
The secretary of the Tett és Védelem Foundation, Kálmán Szalai, also responded to our inquiry. He emphasized:
The name of Jobbik has definitively merged with racism, anti-Semitism and anti-Gypsyism,
which even the apparent moderation of recent years was not able to change. The political alliance made for the election with those who were previously the loudest condemners and opponents of Jobbik's exclusionary policy, served only for political gain, about which the voters clearly expressed their opinion: they shrunk the parliamentary presence of the actors of these political forces to one third."
Szalai added that the character of Gyöngyösi, whose apology for his statement could only be called smearing, foreshadows the return of Jobbik's dead-end politics of the old days.
therefore, TEV's position has not changed: Jobbik will fulfill its political mission if it announces its dissolution and dissolves itself!
Source: mandiner.hu
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