There's a story out of Hungary which comes under the heading of weird justice, at least from my perspective. One of the leaders of Hungary's Jobbik Party, which the Anti-Defamation League says is one of the few political parties in Europe to overtly campaign with anti-Semitic materials, has discovered that he is himself a Jew. The presidential candidate for the party has referred to Israeli Jews as "lice-infested, dirty murderers," an atrocious statement which would be considered hate speech worthy of prosecution in Canada.
Csanad Szegedi, above, was "outed" as the grandchild of Holocaust survivors, a fact he was unaware of until recently. The grandparents were married in an orthodox Jewish ceremony after the war but chose to conceal their Jewish identity. This was not uncommon amongst those who survived the concentration camps. The trauma pushed them into secrecy and denial.
Now Szegedi is a leper in his party. He has resigned from several positions and he will probably be pushed out because of his heritage. Hatred is so bizarre, so irrational. He was a champion of the anti-Semitic cause and now he is the victim of its foolishness.
Have you heard about this situation? What is your reaction?
2 comments:
Suckah.
Looks good on him.
Hopefuly it will raise a few eyebrows in his party. Perhaps there are more of them that don't know the whole story of their own family history yet.
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