The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism reports:
A neo-Nazi Website in Hungary is offering money for information about protesters that called for the arrest of a suspected war criminal, it emerged on Sunday.
Kuruc.info promised 100,000 Forints ($450) to anyone who provided data on demonstrators who called for trial of suspected Nazi collaborator Laszlo Csatary outside his house near Budapest last week.
“We will distribute 100,000 forints among those who send us the most useful information about the [participants],” a text appearing on the website read. “75 thousands forints have been offered by our Comrade Bela Varga who lives in America. Good hunting!”
The website, which is full of antisemitic imagery, including a Nazi hammer crushing a Star of David, accused gatherers at the rally organized by a Jewish student group of conspiring to “kill Hungarians.”
“They complain about various crimes when they are responsible to corrupt our country into communism and later into capitalism,” the text read. “They are responsible for the death of many thousand Hungarians, for the emigration of hundreds of thousands, for the killing of six million fetuses, for the selling of the country not to speak about the genocide in Palestine and the other crimes against humanity.”
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán recently responded to US congressman who complained about antisemitism in Hungary by asking for their help in shutting down Kuruc.info, which he said operates from an American server.
However as Hungarian Spectrum blogger Eva S. Balogh wrote:
The truth is that the website to which Orbán is referring to is being produced in Budapest. The editors and correspondents are most likely all well known to the national security officers. The editor-in-chief according to rumor is a Jobbik member of parliament. The only thing the Hungarian police would have to do is to arrest the editors of the online paper. There is plenty of legal justification to do so. But neither the earlier governments nor this one has the guts or the will to do something.
I doubt that the fifty congressmen will be terribly impressed by this letter. They might not even understand what Orbán is talking about. I do hope that people familiar with the Hungarian situation will be able to explain to them that the antisemitic propaganda coming from kuruc.info… could easily be handled right in the Hungarian capital.
I also hope that someone will explain to these congressmen that the root of Hungarian antisemitism is not kuruc.info. This website is only the manifestation of a very serious and deep-seated problem which the Hungarian government refuses to face and and combat.
“Comrade Bela Varga who lives in America” was winemaker for Callaway Winery in California, but no longer. At last report he runs a specialty store called The Red Paprika in Healdsburg, California. Kuruc.info is registered in his name. Hungarian Spectrum has more on Varga and his dodgy history here and here.
