That March – just days before the Századvég conference in London – Orbán had given a now notorious speech, in which he laid out the nationalist agenda in tones ridden with ancient anti-Semitic tropes:
“We are fighting an enemy that is different from us. Not open, but hiding; not straightforward but crafty; not honest but base; not national but international; does not believe in working but speculates with money; does not have its own homeland but feels it owns the whole world.”
You don’t have to have read The Protocols of the Elders of Zion to recognise a conspiracy theory about Jews when you hear one.Especially when it comes from the prime minister of a nation in which half the Jewish population were murdered within living memory, many with the collaboration of Hungarians.
Last Saturday, Orbán went further. At a summer school for the Hungarian community in Romania, he declared his opposition to “race mixing”.
