BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities has asked Prime Minister Viktor Orban to immediately end a political ad campaign targeting Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist George Soros.
In a letter to Orban released Thursday, federation president Andras Heisler said the government’s “poisonous” messages were harming the whole country. “This campaign is not openly anti-Semitic but it is still very capable of arousing uncontrolled passions like, among others, anti-Semitism,” Heisler said in the letter. “It is the historical responsibility of you, our elected leaders, to prevent hate from spreading in our nation, to not turn the Hungarian people against each other.” Continue reading “Hungary: Jewish group asks Orban to halt anti-Soros campaign”


