Israeli foreign minister calls on Hungary to ban hate speech

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Wed, 27 Jan 2010

Budapest - Israel's foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman called on Hungary to bring in laws banning "hate speech" during a visit to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day. "We must stop the spread of anti-Semitism in this way because extremist movements are ever more boldly raising their heads in Hungary," Lieberman said, as quoted by the state news agency MTI.

Earlier in the day, the prime ministerial candidate of the governing Hungarian Socialist Party, Attila Mesterházy, tabled a motion to ban "hate speech" in the Hungarian parliament.

Liebermann also held talks with Hungary's foreign minister Peter Balazs while in Budapest, the ministry said in a statement.

The two discussed regional stability in the Middle East and "Islamic fundamentalism, terrorism and the dangers inherent in Iranian politics," the ministry said.

The Hungarian capital Budapest is home to Central and Eastern Europe's largest Jewish population, with some estimates as high as 100,000, as well as the continent's largest synagogue.

Up to 600,000 Hungarian Jews are believed to have perished during the Holocaust, mostly in the closing days of the Second World War.

Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/306182,israeli-foreign-minister-calls-on-hungary-to-ban-hate-speech.html.