Veszprémy: This is the act of an international journalist network

Holocaust researcher and journalist László Bernát Veszprémy was aggressively attacked by the left because he spoke about Péter Márki-Zay’s insults towards Jewish people in an Israeli newspaper. Veszprémy believes a coordinated international network is behind this attack.

– Veszprémy told Magyar Nemzet.

In his Mandiner article, the author notes that Neolog chief rabbi Péter Kardos also criticized Péter Márki-Zay, however only Veszprémy was attacked. The question is, was this personal?

“On the one hand, of course yes, because the attacks were personalized; my family and I were threatened,” he said in answer to our question.

“But on the other hand, we can’t rule out the campaign; this could be the reason that an English-language article written from a Hungarian perspective but without any novel information could spark a wave of attacks. Needless to say, I find the situation horrifying; the threats of physical violence were quite stressing.”

Continuing, Veszprémy said that this is not about a Hungarian affair, but rather an international attack.

“I think it’s obvious that this is the systematic action of a well-established international network of journalists, supplemented by Hungarian extremists.

As soon as my article criticizing Márki-Zay was born, it was flagged and taken down according to false accusations; then the network reported that apparently, I wrote lies about Márki-Zay. Of course, they never actually pointed out those ‘lies’. Then came the threats which I reported to the police. The sad lesson of this case is that this is what conservative journalists should expect in Hungary as well: erasure, threats and attacks,” he explained to Magyar Nemzet.

The case raises the question again: how do Jewish organizations and communities view the merger of the left with political actors such as Jobbik or Péter Márki-Zay?

“For the time being, I’ve only witnessed silence from organizations, I’m waiting for them to come to my defense.

Knowing the community, I think that no one can really accept the unholy alliance between Jobbik and the left.

According to a 2018 survey, the most popular party among Hungarian Jews is the satirical two-tailed dog party. I don’t think the latest inclusion of the skinheads since then would have improved the popularity of the coalition much among the Jews,” concluded László Bernát Veszprémy.