The Leader of Hungary's Anti-Semitic Party Discovers He's a Jew
Capital of Nasty, an Electronic Magazine - ISSN 1482-0471
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at 21:00 (7174/37)
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Hate
Ooopsie! Well, that must've been kind of awkward.
As a rising star in Hungary's far-right Jobbik Party, Csanad Szegedi was notorious for his incendiary comments on Jews: He accused them of "buying up" the country, railed about the "Jewishness" of the political elite and claimed Jews were desecrating national symbols.
Then came a revelation that knocked him off his perch as ultra-nationalist standard-bearer: Szegedi himself is a Jew.
Following weeks of Internet rumours, Szegedi acknowledged in June that his grandparents on his mother's side were Jews -- making him one too under Jewish law, even though he doesn't practice the faith. His grandmother was an Auschwitz survivor and his grandfather a veteran of forced labour camps.
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