The Hungarian government has demanded an apology from the Joe Biden administration for spreading a \u201cfalse\u201d story about a Holocaust memorial being vandalised.
\nSpeaking at what was described as a \u2018High-Level Side Event on Globalizing Efforts to Combat Antisemitism\u2019 by the United States Mission to the United Nations earlier this month, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield had alleged that, alongside a Jewish grave site being vandalised with a swastika, a Russian missile striking a Ukrainian synagogue, and \u201csomeone with hate in their heart\u201d throwing a Molotov cocktail at an American synagogue in New Jersey, a \u201cHolocaust memorial was vandalised in Hungary.\u201d
\nWestern officials and commentators have often suggested that Hungary is a hive of anti-Semitism, particularly when the government has criticised the by-his-own-account atheist plutocrat George Soros, despite the Israeli government coming to Budapest\u2019s defence \u2014 but this latest accusation has caused particular outrage because the event described by the U.S. ambassador apparently never took place.
\nState Secretary Zolt\u00e1n Kov\u00e1cs, a key representative of the Hungarian government to the outside world, wrote that \u201crepresentatives of Hungary stood puzzled by Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield\u2019s claims, as no such act of vandalism had occurred in Hungary for years.\u201d
\n\u201cIn fact, Hungary is one of the safest countries for Jewish people in Europe, with Jewish communities experiencing a \u2018renaissance\u2019 for more than a decade now,\u201d he suggested.
\nKov\u00e1cs said that the Hungarian Embassy to the UN immediately requested a public correction and formal apology from the U.S. Embassy \u2014 but that the Biden administration has \u201cso far refused to comply.\u201d
\nThis is seemingly not because Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield or her officials believe that a Holocaust memorial really was vandalised in Hungary \u2014 indeed, the section of her speech referring to the incident has been struck through, with an annotation noting that it is in fact Sweden, a generally pro-mass migration, pro-multiculturalism European Union member-state, certainly compared to national conservative Hungary, where a memorial \u201chonouring the diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary during the Holocaust, was vandalised.\u201d
\n\u201cIt is outrageous that the U.S. ambassador made unfounded and false allegations about Hungary in front of a wide audience at the UN,\u201d the Hungarians have complained, suggesting that the silent, post hoc correction on the American embassy\u2019s website is far from sufficient redress.<\/p>\n
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