Gergely Gulyás pledged the government’s continued support for the preservation and strengthening of the cultural identity of Hungarian Jews. While the Hungarian government now has the means to protect Jewish citizens, it’s also eyeing the rise of new anti-Semitism in the world, Gulyás said in a video posted on Facebook, concerned to see forces “aiming to curb the freedom of religion by legal and administrative means”. Hungary stands by Jewish communities living under the shadow of daily physical threats, he said.
Gulyás said that in 1945 Hungarian Jews had received no support from their homeland. “The Hungarian state was complicit in the terrifying atrocities committed,” he said. Today, Hungarian Jewry enjoys the greatest possible security in Europe, he said. While zero tolerance against anti-Semitism is “not only government policy but a social reality” in Hungary, Europe is struggling to find a solution to social changes giving rise to a new anti-Semitism, Gulyás said.
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