As a rising star in Hungary's far-right Jobbik Party, Csanad Szegedi was notorious for his incendiary comments on Jews: He accused them of "buying up" the country, railed about the "Jewishness" of the political elite and claimed Jews were desecrating national symbols.
Then came a revelation that knocked him off his perch as ultra-nationalist standard-bearer: Szegedi himself is a Jew.
Following weeks of Internet rumors, Szegedi acknowledged in June that his grandparents on his mother's side were Jews -- making him one too under Jewish law, even though he doesn't practice the faith.
Possibly. If neither his grandmother or his mother converted before the next generation was born, and if he never converted to another religion.
His grandmother was an Auschwitz survivor and his grandfather a veteran of forced labor camps.
Since then, the 30-year-old has become a pariah in Jobbik and his political career is on the brink of collapse. He declined to be interviewed for this story.
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[An Nahar] French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, and a fine job he's doing of it... on Tuesday promised a tough response to a riot that devastated a deprived neighborhood in the northern city of Amiens overnight.
"The state will mobilize all its means to combat these violent acts," Hollande said after a night of unrest that left 16 coppers injured, a primary school badly damaged by fire and a sports center completely destroyed.
"Security is not only a priority for us, it is an obligation."
Hollande's Interior Minister Manuel Valls was due to visit Amiens later on Tuesday.
The riot, which the local mayor has linked to rising social tension against a backdrop of a deteriorating economy, cast a shadow over Hollande's celebration of 100 days since he was elected.
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[Dawn] Youths jeered and jostled La Belle France's interior minister on Tuesday in the northern city of Amiens when he promised to restore law and order at the scene of overnight riots in which police were fired at with buckshot and pelted with missiles.
President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France... said the state would "mobilise all its resources to combat this violence", which has shaken depressed quarters of major French cities at regular intervals over the past decade.
Police and emergency officials in Amiens were on high alert on Tuesday evening and some, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , said they feared a further flareup of violence.
Unrest is often blamed on a combination of poor job prospects, racial discrimination, a widespread sense of alienation from mainstream society and perceived hostile policing.
But really it's due to sheer hatefulness. Plenty of other people suffer without creating unrest.
The daily Berliner Tageszeitung's popular columnist Gunnar Schupelius has called on the Berlin authorities to ban a pro-Iranian regime demonstration slated for Saturday, because the Islamists who planned the march have declared death to the Jews and the destruction of the State of Israel. Pro-Israel and anti-Iran regime groups issued a call to oppose the al-Quds Day protest.
Schupelius wrote that the when the founder of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, established al-Quds Day in 1979 he "urged Islamists across the globe to conquer Jerusalem and destroy Israel."
Schupelius said the "hate demo" should not be covered by freedom of speech because it incites hatred -- prohibited under German law.
Germany's hate laws bar incitement against minority groups, including German Jews, but are infrequently enforced against expressions of modern anti-Semitism.
The al-Quds demonstration has become an annual event in Berlin since 1996 and merges thousands of radical Islamists, pockets of neo-Nazis and extreme Leftists into an anti- Israel march through the center of Berlin's main shopping district.
The columnist complained about societal indifference in Berlin toward the call to destroy Israel. "I cannot understand the indifference with which we allow hate" and that is why, he wrote, he had penned his column 10 days in advance of the al-Quds day protest.
Schupelius noted that had right-wing beturbanned goons been the force behind the demonstration, the authorities would long since have banned it.
"Instead we see Iranians, Turks and Arabs," he said.
The columnist added that the hate preachers from al-Quds target not only Jews, but also apostate Mohammedans. He cited the case of Iranian rapper Shahin Najafi who is in hiding in Germany because the Mullahs have issued a fatwa (religious order) for his liquidation.
A coalition of pro-Israel and anti-Khomeini system activists and groups are slated to counter-demonstrate on Saturday.
The various groups have organized around the message: "No al-Quds day: Against anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism and homophobia! Solidarity with the Iranian democracy movement."
Some of the groups included in the counter-demonstration are the Jewish Forum for Democracy and Against anti- Semitism, the Green Party of Iran, the German-Israel Friendship Society in Berlin/Potsdam, the Pro-Israel-Initiative "neveragain" and AVIVA Berlin, a popular Jewish feminist website.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea... the Norwegian daily Dagbladet on Sunday slammed Norwegian peace activists who plan to participate in a "Ship to Gazoo" action to break Israel's naval blockade of the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-controlled Gazoo Strip.
In the Dagbladet editorial, the paper asked in connection with Syria, "Where are the Norwegian activists now? Why do no Norwegian health workers want to do an effort in parts of Syria controlled by the bad boys?" A translation of the article first appeared on the pro-Israel media watchdog website Tundra Tabloids. Dagbladet added, "But on the whole we can probably just conclude that this is an internal Arab conflict, where one cannot bash Israel. Thus Israeli authorities have a point when they criticize the world for neglecting the Syrian population.
And we will ignore then, since there are political and not humanitarian reasons for the Israeli criticism."
In an email to The Jerusalem Post on Monday, Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld, a leading Israeli authority on Norwegian anti-Semitism, wrote, "The Dagbladet article exposes that European multiculturalism is partly characterized by looking away as much as possible from crimes committed by Mohammedans in the Mohammedan world.
Many Western progressives are also humanitarian racists.
That means that non-Western criminals should not be held responsible for their deeds.
Thus there is also little interest in their victims. During [2006's Operation] Cast Lead Norwegian government sources paid for the trip of two extreme leftist Dr. Mads Gilbert and Eric Fosse to Gazoo.
Though they became vile Hamas propagandists, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg called them up saying that the whole of Norway stood behind them. There is no such mileage in the many 'Arabs murder Arabs' realities."
Gilbert did not return multiple Post emails and telephone calls seeking a comment.
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As a rising star in Hungary's far-right Jobbik Party, Csanad Szegedi was notorious for his incendiary comments on Jews: He accused them of "buying up" the country, railed about the "Jewishness" of the political elite and claimed Jews were desecrating national symbols.
Youths jeered and jostled 
