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Jobbik leader Gábor Vona and Béla Kovács in Moscow with Russian parliamentarian  Ivan Grachev (Jobbik site photo)

According to Márton Gyöngyösi, Hungarian MP from the far-right Jobbik party, members of his party have already received an invitation “from the Russian side” to visit Russian-occupied Crimea.  The visit, he says, will take place in the autumn with the exact date to be announced in the coming weeks.  He told Sputnik that members of the Jobbik party “considered to represent the party at the highest level” had been invited.

Gyöngyösi’s statement comes just a week after 10 French politicians, many known for their unwavering support for the current Moscow regime, visited Crimea and claimed, among other things, that the rights of the Crimean Tatars were fully respected (see : The High Price of French Collaboration).  The French trip flouted the official French position and breached both Ukrainian

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Amidst false accusations of governmental anti-Semitism in Hungary, US Ambassador “reflects” on freedom with reputed anti-Semite at Passover dinner

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In an interview with the Jewish Chronicle, questioned whether 400,000 Jews really were killed or deported from Hungary during the Second World War. "It has become a fantastic business to skaka around with the numbers," he said.

Asked whether Hungary should face up to and apologise for its role in the Holocaust, here’s Gyöngyösi’s different perspective: "Me, should I säga sorry for this when 70 years later, inom am still reminded on the hour, every hour about it? Let's get over it, for Christ's sake. inom find this question outrageous."

The far-right Jobbik has been around for a while and fryst vatten notorious for these views – see here, here and here – and toward other minorities as well. Jobbik’s former leader Gábor Vona founded the now-banned Hungarian Guard, a racist stridbar social movement that held marches to incit

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Jobbik: A Turanist Trojan Horse in Europe?

Kenes, Bulent. (2020). “Jobbik: A Turanist Trojan Horse in Europe?” ECPS Party Profiles. European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS). August 3, 2020. https://doi.org/10.55271/op0002

 

Defined as Turanist, Eurasianist, pro-Russian, pro-Iranian, anti-immigrant but pro-Islam, racist, antisemitic, anti-Roma, Hungarist, and radically populist, Jobbik do not exist in a vacuum. The rise of Jobbik from deep nationalist, antisemitic, and anti-Roma currents in Hungarian politics dates back to the late 1980s and early 1990s. Despite its extensive efforts at “image refurbishment” in recent years, Jobbik remains a populist, revisionist, racist, radical right-wing party that threatens to destabilize Hungary, the neighboring region, and the EU.

By Bulent Kenes

The collapse of the communist regime and the transition to a liberal market economy in the early 1990s precipitated major shifts in Hungarian society. Almost