Hungarian Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Minister Péter Szijjártó said accusations of anti-Semitism against the Republic of Hungary by the United States were “senseless” attacks from a state that has seen an increase in attacks on Jews and anti-Semitic speech.
Péter Szijjártó commented on the US State Department’s document on religious freedom in the world, which includes accusations of anti-Semitism against Hungary. The report was announced on 26 June in Washington by the United States Foreign Minister Anthony Blinken.
“My colleague Anthony Blinken has just criticised our country on the issue of religious freedom, saying that ‘officials’ are using anti-Semitic rhetoric. This is an absolutely nonsensical accusation from the foreign policy chief of a country where attacks on Jews and anti-Semitic riots on university campuses have increased dramatically recently,” the diplomat wrote on Facebook.
The Hungarian foreign affairs and external economic relations minister emphasised that meanwhile Israel’s national football team and club teams will again play their matches in the central European state next season.
“Because they feel safe here,” Peter Szijjártó stated.
We will remind, earlier the director of public relations of the Fidesz party Tamás Menczer said that the Hungarian Foreign Ministry, responding to the United States criticism in the area of unfavourable level of democracy in the Republic of Hungary, formed a document on the problems with anti-Semitism and migration in the United States.
