Hungarian Jews criticise Chabad rabbinical convention

Mađarski Židovi kritiziraju Rabinsku Chabad konvenciju

The president of the Mazsihisz Federation of Jewish Communities in Hungary, an EJC affiliate, has strongly criticised the organisers of a Chabad rabbinical conference in Budapest for holding its event while the official community is currently boycotting Holocaust commemoration events sponsored by the government.

Predsjednik " Mazsihisz" Federacije Židovskih zajednica u Mađarskoj,    koja je član Europskog Židovskog kongresa, oštro je kritizirao organizatore rabinske Chabad konvencije u Budimpešti u vrijeme kada službena zajednica bojkotira održavanje komemoracije Holokausta koju  organizira vlada. Službena Židovska zajednica bojkotira  vladin plan da prilikom 70-godišnjice nacističke invazije otkrije kip koji prikazuje Mađarsku kao nevinu žrtvu nacizma. Židovi se protive zato  jer spomenik odaje počast svim žrtvama nacizma, a ne spominje se uloga mađarske vlade u ubojstvu 586.000 Židova u Holokaustu.

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The rabbinical conference featured a memorial ceremony on Monday on the banks of the Danube River. Hungarian Defense Minister Csaba Hende and Budapest Mayor Istvan Tarlos, both of the governing Fidesz party, were among the participants. A Mazsihisz spokesman said the organisation feared the rabbinical conference, would be used by the government as election propaganda to downplay the dispute with Mazsihisz, and that it would also serve the propaganda machine of the xenophobic Jobbik party, whose rhetoric often features negative references to so-called Jewish interests in Hungary.