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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum on Thursday met with about 20 people protesting outside, claiming that Orbán is an anti-Semite who rapes human rights.
Protesters briefly blocked the access road to the museum, preventing the Orbán convoy from leaving.
They were dispersed by the police a few minutes later, telling Yad Vashem's employees that they should be ashamed to welcome the Hungarian prime minister.
(Photo: Amit Shabi)
Yad Vashem replied in reply: "The Hungarian Prime Minister is a guest of the State of Israel. the state in accordance with the visiting plan established by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, responsible for official visits to the state of Israel.
Orbán participated in a brief memorial service at the museum in Hungarian, during which he lit the torch of remembrance and placed a candle in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
He was accompanied during his visit by Dr. Robert Rozett, director of Libraries Yad Vashem whose research focuses on Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust.
The Hungarian Prime Minister met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier in the day, telling him,
"Hungary has no tolerance for all manifestations of anti-Semitism. All Jewish citizens in Hungary are protected by the government, and we are proud of that."
(Photo: Amit Shabi)
But in the past year, Orbán has been conducting a public anti-Semitic campaign against Jewish philanthropist George Soros, using terms and phrases drawn from the old Nazi propaganda. This campaign was greeted with a fierce condemnation of the Hungarian Jewish community.
He also nicknamed Miklós Horthy, Hungarian leader during the Second World War, a great and extraordinary leader, although Horthy was known as an anti-Semitic nationalist, joined the Axis alliance during the war and was an active Nazi collaborator.
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