Hungary - 2012
Parties that express xenophobic discourse in the form of hate speech or promote an anti-migrant and/or anti-minority agenda
- Code:
- RED34
- Key Area:
- Political Parties-organisations - Racist & Xenophobic Discourse
- Strand(s):
- Racism
| Short Answer |
Jobbik, a far right party, running on an anti-Roma racist and anti-Semitic agenda has 17% of the seats in the 2010-2014 parliament. |
| Qualitative Info |
Jobbik, a far right party, running on an anti-Roma racist and anti-Semitic agenda has 17% of the seats in the 2010-2014 parliament. The party self-consciously uses the term ‘Roma criminality’ (cigánybűnözés) to emphasize their openly racist view according to which there is a causal link (or at least correlation) between ethnic background and levels of criminality. In 2010 MPs of Jobbik proposed a piece of legislation that would criminalize ‘the denial of Roma criminality’ defined as an act of ‘denying or minimizing the significance of a widely-known social phenomenon’[1]. Jobbik is also well-known for its public manifestations of anti-Semitism, during a demonstration in November 2010, leading members of the party placed a kipa on the statue of Hungary’s left-wing Prime Minister, Mihály Károlyi (in office in 1918-1919)[2]. [1] ‘Börtönt kér a Jobbik a cigánybűnözés tagadóinak’ [‘Jobbik calls for the imprisonment of those who deny Roma criminality] Népszabadság, 15. 09. 2010 http://nol.hu/belfold/20100915-bortont_ker_a_jobbik_a_ciganybunozes_tagadoinak (Date of access: 20. 02. 2012) [2] ‘Tüntet a Jobbik - kipát raktak Károlyi fejére’ [Jobbik protests – They placed a kipa on Károlyi’s head], Hírszerző.hu, 16. 11. 2010., http://hirszerzo.hu/hirek/2010/11/16/20101116_jobbik_tuntetes_demonstracio (Date of access: 20. 02. 2012)
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| Groups affected/interested | Ethnic minorities |
| Type (R/D) | Anti-semitism, Anti-roma/zinghanophobia |
| Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas | Political discourse -parties - orgs |
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