Csanad Szegedi was the leader of one of Europe’s most overtly antisemitic groups with actual political representation. This guy was particularly rabid. NPR reports:
Csanad Szegedi had in the past railed about the “Jewishness” of the political class. According to the ADL, his party’s presidential candidate referred to Israeli Jews as “lice-infested, dirty murderers.”
The Hungarian group is named “the Jobbik Party.” They are a far-right party and earned 17 percent of the vote in the most recent election. They are now the country’s third largest party.
This guy is Jewish. He didn’t submit blood to some ancestral divination outfit which makes money convincing gullible customers that they are related to Abraham Lincoln and Jessica Lange. He didn’t hear some rumor that his great-grandfather had a name ending in “stein.” It turns out that his grandparents, on his mother’s side, survived the death camps, and had an Orthodox Jewish wedding after the war – but decided to keep their religion a secret from their children. 550,000 Hungarian Jews were killed in the camps, but for whatever reason, they decided to stay in the country and exist in secret.
The last three paragraphs of the NPR article linked above hint at potential redemption. I’m sure a book deal is in the works.
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August 14, 2012 at 1:53 pm
Sonia Baur
Where do we begin. Religious wars have so little to do with religion, or even religious cultural sensibilities. And then we need to know how these particular “we”-”they” affiliations are being used (much like protestant in Ireland was the “oppressive” English occupier and catholic was the working poor).
I am amazed at your ability to keep track of so many political conflicts. Now Hungary.
So maybe you can tell me who the “militants” in the Sinai are. They killed 16 Egyptian army members, which seems to have given the elected president a credible excuse to rearrange the military, etc. Presumably they are not Jews
August 14, 2012 at 4:16 pm
moviedad
I get the feeling you don’t put much stock in the DNA “mapping” that’s going on? It’s actually pretty amazing. People are finding that their ethnographic origins are not always what grandma said they were.
There have been surprises in my family.
August 15, 2012 at 4:09 am
unanonymous
I didn’t know a blood test could show what your religeous faith is…… jews are members of a religeon like catholics. Many jews are arabs.
August 15, 2012 at 6:23 am
Twigs
I keep wondering if the Neanderthals really died out. Maybe the recessive Neanderthal genes we have in our bodies supposedly are making a come back and forming hate groups to wipe the other dominant species of sentient thinking humans. De-evolution may be the greatest threat to our planet.
Yes, I am kidding. A little.
August 15, 2012 at 7:49 am
Ernie'S Place
I knew a person (a Morman man) who took great pride in his quest to trace his family history back to Adam and Eve. I casually asked in if he was sure that ever woman in his families history was faithful to her husband. He mumbled something about my not understanding religion. (true!)
August 15, 2012 at 11:45 am
Joe Blow
Hey Branscomb, it seems to me your linage goes back a few thousand years too. Too bad I can’t go back in time, the first thing I’d do is look up that unfaithful mate.
August 15, 2012 at 2:53 pm
Ernie Branscomb
Gee Joe, that sounds like a big waste of time. Probably not even the most unfaithful women in my family would have anything to do with you. But, dream on.
August 15, 2012 at 4:58 pm
Dave Kirby
They’re rioting in Africa. They’re starving in Spain. There’s hurricanes in Florida, and Texas needs rain.
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls. The French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles.
Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch. And I don’t like anybody very much!
The Kingston Trio, 50 something years ago.
August 15, 2012 at 5:51 pm
Eric Kirk
moviedad – I trust the science. I don’t trust the marketing.
August 16, 2012 at 9:31 am
Mitch
Amazing story. Thanks, Eric. I wonder who he’ll have to hate now. (Double entendre intentional.)
August 16, 2012 at 8:23 pm
Anonymous
Do ya think the guy who got busted in Idaho is having a Twilight Zone Irony? This guy should have been busted years ago. He is not “mom and pop”. Neither are the thousands of others just like him with their 5, 6, 7 and counting greenhouses.
August 17, 2012 at 6:47 am
moviedad
Can’t seem to post anything. says” posting comment” then doesn’t, then tells me it’s duplicate comment…
oh yeah, over on the KMUD thread….
August 17, 2012 at 6:51 am
Unk John
“I am amazed at your ability to keep track of so many political conflicts. Now Hungary.”
This one may have to do with his Hungarian heritage.
August 17, 2012 at 8:16 am
moviedad
You must have turned off the comments on the KMUD Thread? Still unavailable….
August 30, 2012 at 10:34 am
Joe Blow
Missed this one (for awhile) Ernie. Who said anything about me having something to do with your most unfaithful? I’ve got enough sorry excuses in my own family with inviting more it. But, then since we’re both still here all these many thousands of years later, you just never know though, do you? You’re probably a distant relative to my brother.