Record numbers flocking to Budapest Jewish festival

(JTA) — Budapest’s largest-ever Jewish Summer Festival was attracting record numbers in its first two days amid fresh warnings of anti-Semitism in Hungary. Some 100,000 Jews from across Europe are expected to attend the weeklong cultural festival, which opened Saturday. The festival is being hosted for the 16th consecutive year by the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities, or Mazsihisz, and co-organized by the Israeli Jewish Congress.

Ljetni Židovski festival je privukao rekordni broj sudionika u prva dva dana uprkos upozorenjima o antisemitizmu u Mađarskoj. Oko 100.000 Židova iz cijele Evrope se očekuje u kulturnom festivalu koji je otvoren u subotu i   trajati  će tjedan dana . Domaćin festivala je već 16 godina (za redom) Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities ( Mazsihisz) i suorganizatora Izraelskog Židovskog kongresa. Na ovom ljetnom festivalu je rekordno učešće velikog broja Izraelaca- političara, izvođača i učenika visokih škola koji su došli da bi učvrstili veze s Izraelom  i da pokazuje solidarsnot sa borbom mađarskih Židova protiv antisemitizma, rekao je Arsen Ostrovsky , direktor istraživanja u Izraelskom židovskom kongresu.

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Last week, Mazsihisz raised the alarm about the apparent rise in anti-Semitic rhetoric observed in Hungary in recent years.

Last year, soccer fans in Budapest chanted about Auschwitz at a friendly match with an Israeli team. A few months later, a Jobbik lawmaker for the ultranationalist Jobbik party said Hungarian Jews should be registered as a national risk.

On Sunday, the Centre for Monitoring and Combatting Anti-Semitism in Romania warned in a statement that Jobbik was “exporting extremism, racism, anti-Semitism and revisionist Magyar ideology to Romania.”