Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg says his country rejects ‘prejudice’ against the Jewish state, and calls for dialogue with Israel’s new government.
Controversy has erupted in Hungary over the government’s decision to give the prestigious Knight’s Cross award to Zsolt Bayer, a journalist known for making anti-Semitic and racist comments, resulting in numerous people returning their own awards in protest.
Over 70 years after the Holocaust, Jewish victims of that horrific tragedy are seeking justice from Hungary, which was an active participant in the mass murder of it Jewish population.
A Budapest court sentenced Ferenc Oroshazi for denying the Holocaust ever happened. In Hungary, it is illegal to publicly deny, downplay or justify the Holocaust or the crimes committed by Hungary’s communist regime.
Protesters held a silent demonstration on Monday in central Hungary against a plan to unveil a statue of a former minister of religion and education who helped draft and supported anti-Semitic legislation in the 1930s.
A few days before Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day, thousands of people joined the annual March of the Living event in Budapest, vowing "Never Again!"