JTA) — Anti-Semitic literature was on display at a
festival in Slovakia sponsored by Hungary’s ruling
party, Fidesz.
Among the books on display at the event were
Henry Ford’s “The International Jew,” “The
Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” and Erno Raffay’s
openly anti-Semitic book on the Freemasons,
“Politizalo szabadkomuvesseg,” according to a
report Thursday on the website Hungarian
Spectrum.
The July 18-21 Free University was partly paid for
by Fidesz, according to Professor Eva Balogh of
Yale University, who blogs on current affairs for
the news site. A keynote speaker was Laszlo
Kover, the speaker of the Hungarian parliament,
the National Assembly of Hungary.
MKP, an ethnic Hungarian party in Slovakia,
hosted the event, and it was co-organized by the
Fidesz youth organization Fidelitas and the
Association of the Young Christian Democrats.
Last month, Hungary’s highest court ruled that a
co-founder of Fidesz, Zsolt Bayer, had made anti-
Semitic statements in a 2011 Op-Ed.
Fidesz has condemned the ultranationalist
opposition Jobbik party for its anti-Semitism, but
Jewish leaders and U.S. officials have said that the
rejection of anti-Semitism by Fidesz and its
leaders has not been forceful enough. Http://tinyurl.com/Mat6qc7