Budapest – on Hungarian state television, the Hungarian Jewish billionaire Soros György was nicknamed “a vicious Zionist-American multimillionaire.” Soros supports groups that oppose the rightist government in Hungary – as well as subversive leftist organizations around the world, including Israel.
This was said during the “HIRADO” program, the main newscast of the governmental broadcast MTVA.
The program included quotations from Iranian spiritual leader Ali Khamenei, who claimed that Soros was the man who undermined and caused the fall of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Mazsihisz, the umbrella organization of the Jewish communities in Hungary was among those who criticized the Hungarian broadcaster and claimed that it could provoke anti-Semitism.
Senior politicians in Hungary have recently attacked Soros who funds groups that oppose them.
Mazsihisz claimed that the quotation from Khamenei expresses the purest and most widespread form of “anti-Jewish sentiments in the Hungarian media.” The organization claimed that the government news agency, MTI, declined to report its statement because it feared it would “undermine the credibility of the government media and its business interests.”
Radnóti Zoltán, chairman of Mazsihisz, called the broadcast “anti-Semitic incitement on prime time”.
Even before the broadcast, the campaign against Soros “was not free of anti-Semitism and it must be stopped in order to stop the hatred spread with the help of taxpayers’ money.”
A journalist of Index.Hu asked people what they think about George Soros and one of the respondents replied “dirty Jew”. In the video at 2:30.
