142 result(s) for racism
Xpat Opinion: Hungarian Nobel Prize Writer Imre Kertész Accuses The New York Times Of Censorship
- 17 Nov 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Two conservative columnists accuse The New York Times of bias for deciding not to publish an interview with Imre Kertész Nobel prize winning novelist who dismissed the idea that Hungary was a dictatorship.
U.S. Embassy Budapest Media Note On Correction
- 13 Oct 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
On October 1, Charge d’affaires, a.i., M. André Goodfriend gave an interview to Hir TV discussing reports that the Government of Hungary had spoken out against and banned a meeting that was to have taken place in Hungary, at which groups espousing racial-supremacist philosophies proposed to meet.
500 Protest Plan To Bulldoze Roma Housing Estate In Miskolc
- 20 Jul 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Around 500 people protested Miskolc city council’s plan to bulldoze a Roma housing estate to make way for a new football stadium in the north-eastern city on Wednesday. The threatened settlement consists of around a dozen streets – numbered, not named – where Roma families live in 100-year-old, two-storey houses. It skirts the main thoroughfare of Miskolc and at one end is dwarfed by the ...
Hungary Jews Were Faithful To Country, Says Israeli Ambassador
- 4 Jul 2014 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Hungarian Jews were faithful to Hungary which they regarded as their homeland, and did their best to promote its prosperity, the Israeli ambassador said in Bonyhád in southern Hungary, opening an exhibition in the local synagogue. Ilan Mor said that the co-existence of Jews and non-Jews had been “disrupted” by the Nazis and the Arrow Cross.
Washington Exhibition Marks 70th Anniversary Of Holocaust In Hungary
- 21 May 2014 9:00 AM
- community & culture
An exhibition marking the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust in Hungary has opened in the Capitol Hill neighbourhood of Washington, DC. Maximilian Teleki, chairman of the Hungarian American Coalition (HAC), told the opening event that all attempts at revisionism and sanitising history are unacceptable. History must be approached with scientific precision, in an open and receptive manner, he added.
Xpat Opinion: Welcoming The New US Ambassador To Hungary
- 14 Nov 2013 10:55 AM
- current affairs
Pundits across the political spectrum believe that Colleen Bradley Bell, the new US Ambassador to Hungary will form a rather dim picture of Hungary and its government if she gathers information from the US press before taking up her post.
Xpat Opinion: Baja-Gate Rolls On In Hungary
- 24 Oct 2013 9:00 AM
- current affairs
According to a conservative columnist, evidence suggests that the staged Baja video tape was commissioned by the Socialist party. Népszava accuses the pro-government media of exaggerating the issue, while Népszabadság, the leading left-wing daily, welcomes the opposition parties’ decision to distance themselves from the individuals involved in the fabrication.
Xpat Opinion: A Surprising Verdict: The Gypsies Are The Racists, Not The Members Of The Hungarian Guard
- 2 Oct 2013 1:00 AM
- current affairs
Sajóbábony, a small town of 2,000 inhabitants 13 km from the city of Miskolc, has been in the news off and on since 2009, shortly after the random murders of Gypsies in several towns and villages. In the aftermath of these murders the Hungarian Roma population was not surprisingly jumpy and fearful. Intensifying their fear was the activity of Jobbik and the Hungarian Guard, its paramilitary unit. ...
Xpat Opinion: The New Ethics Textbook For Hungarian Fifth Graders
- 13 Sep 2013 1:00 AM
- community & culture
What can one say about the newly introduced ethics textbook for Hungarian fifth graders? For starters, it is not, strictly speaking, an ethics text. Ethics is not a branch of religion, and being ethical is not the same as following the law or adhering to societal norms. So a textbook that lauds religious virtues and advocates unquestioning civil obedience doesn’t belong in an ethics class.
Xpat Opinion: Hungarian Nobel Prize Writer Imre Kertész Accuses The New York Times Of Censorship
- 17 Nov 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Two conservative columnists accuse The New York Times of bias for deciding not to publish an interview with Imre Kertész Nobel prize winning novelist who dismissed the idea that Hungary was a dictatorship.
U.S. Embassy Budapest Media Note On Correction
- 13 Oct 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
On October 1, Charge d’affaires, a.i., M. André Goodfriend gave an interview to Hir TV discussing reports that the Government of Hungary had spoken out against and banned a meeting that was to have taken place in Hungary, at which groups espousing racial-supremacist philosophies proposed to meet.
500 Protest Plan To Bulldoze Roma Housing Estate In Miskolc
- 20 Jul 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Around 500 people protested Miskolc city council’s plan to bulldoze a Roma housing estate to make way for a new football stadium in the north-eastern city on Wednesday. The threatened settlement consists of around a dozen streets – numbered, not named – where Roma families live in 100-year-old, two-storey houses. It skirts the main thoroughfare of Miskolc and at one end is dwarfed by the ...
Hungary Jews Were Faithful To Country, Says Israeli Ambassador
- 4 Jul 2014 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Hungarian Jews were faithful to Hungary which they regarded as their homeland, and did their best to promote its prosperity, the Israeli ambassador said in Bonyhád in southern Hungary, opening an exhibition in the local synagogue. Ilan Mor said that the co-existence of Jews and non-Jews had been “disrupted” by the Nazis and the Arrow Cross.
Washington Exhibition Marks 70th Anniversary Of Holocaust In Hungary
- 21 May 2014 9:00 AM
- community & culture
An exhibition marking the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust in Hungary has opened in the Capitol Hill neighbourhood of Washington, DC. Maximilian Teleki, chairman of the Hungarian American Coalition (HAC), told the opening event that all attempts at revisionism and sanitising history are unacceptable. History must be approached with scientific precision, in an open and receptive manner, he added.
Xpat Opinion: Welcoming The New US Ambassador To Hungary
- 14 Nov 2013 10:55 AM
- current affairs
Pundits across the political spectrum believe that Colleen Bradley Bell, the new US Ambassador to Hungary will form a rather dim picture of Hungary and its government if she gathers information from the US press before taking up her post.
Xpat Opinion: Baja-Gate Rolls On In Hungary
- 24 Oct 2013 9:00 AM
- current affairs
According to a conservative columnist, evidence suggests that the staged Baja video tape was commissioned by the Socialist party. Népszava accuses the pro-government media of exaggerating the issue, while Népszabadság, the leading left-wing daily, welcomes the opposition parties’ decision to distance themselves from the individuals involved in the fabrication.
Xpat Opinion: A Surprising Verdict: The Gypsies Are The Racists, Not The Members Of The Hungarian Guard
- 2 Oct 2013 1:00 AM
- current affairs
Sajóbábony, a small town of 2,000 inhabitants 13 km from the city of Miskolc, has been in the news off and on since 2009, shortly after the random murders of Gypsies in several towns and villages. In the aftermath of these murders the Hungarian Roma population was not surprisingly jumpy and fearful. Intensifying their fear was the activity of Jobbik and the Hungarian Guard, its paramilitary unit. ...
Xpat Opinion: The New Ethics Textbook For Hungarian Fifth Graders
- 13 Sep 2013 1:00 AM
- community & culture
What can one say about the newly introduced ethics textbook for Hungarian fifth graders? For starters, it is not, strictly speaking, an ethics text. Ethics is not a branch of religion, and being ethical is not the same as following the law or adhering to societal norms. So a textbook that lauds religious virtues and advocates unquestioning civil obedience doesn’t belong in an ethics class.