Hungary’s new ambassador to Italy thinks Jews are ‘agents of Satan’

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Sunday night, the Hungarian media learned that Péter Szentmihályi Szabó, a former poet and right-wing political commentator, was going to be the next ambassador to Rome. Eva S. Balogh, a Hungarian and former Yale lecturer in Eastern European history, was appalled. "One thing is sure," Balogh wrote: "Szentmihályi Szabó is an inveterate anti-Semite."

To prove her point, Balogh translated an essay of Szabó's from 2000. It's about Jews, and it's pretty appalling stuff:

I don't know, I don't understand why they hate us so much. They live here in Hungary, they speak and write in Hungarian, but they loathe us. I really don't understand why they stay if it is that bad here, in this welcoming country that is so foolishly patient. It is not difficult to recognize them because they are cowardly and impertinent at the same time. Money is their God, their mother tongue in which they have trusted from time immemorial. Dark circles under their eyes, flabby skin, clammy palms, cold feet, freakish smiles give them away.

They can be found everywhere on the earth. They are the agents of Satan. They arouse fear and they live off of fear. They create turmoil and discord. They are constantly packing, yet they don't leave. Are they foreign spirits whose mission is to destroy the local communities? International criminals who, following Marx and Lenin, decided to enslave mankind? Eternally homeless folk condemned to be constant wanderers?

They are the debt collectors. The ones who first figured out that money "works" without labor although there are no goods behind the merchandise, only a piece of metal, a piece of paper, or by now only a digital symbol on the computer. Everybody is afraid of them, yet they dread those who fear them. The world's strongest army guards their security, and yet they still don't dare to get close to those whose rights they defend so loudly


http://www.vox.com/2014/7/23/5927769/anti-semitism-hungary-ambassador?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=voxdotcom&utm_content=wednesday

[Behind the Aegis]

1. Look what is happening all over Europe, this is simply not surprising.

Nor are the lack of comments.

[Bonobo]

4. I hear you so much, brother.

Hungary is where my grandmother's side is from. 90% of her family line ended there as well.

She was one of 12 siblings to escape before the Nazis and all the willing anti-semitic collaborators helped to kill them for being Jewish.

[sufrommich]

5. It's scary as hell to see this not only happening,but

some making excuses for it.

[Bonobo]

2. Don't worry, I'm sure he'll realize his error and say he meant "Israel". nt

[Behind the Aegis]

3. Or someone will make the argument for him.

[NaturalHigh]

6. Dear Mr. Szabo - 1937 called. It wants its talking points back.