I've lost count of the number of times I've blogged the desecration of Jewish cemeteries around the world.
Several broken gravestones lay on the grass on July 22, 2012 in the local Jewish cemetery of Kaposvar, about 200 km south-west from Budapest as fifty-seven graves were desecrated by vandals. AFP PHOTO/str
There are only two links for this newsbit. One is comprised of three sentences at BusinessGhana.com and the other is this AFP report appearing in the Hurriyet Daily News in Istanbul. Go figure.
.... A string of similar recent incidents have raised fears about a rise in anti-Jewish feeling in the European Union member state under Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Recent months have witnessed a public rehabilitation of controversial figures, most notably of Miklos Horthy, Hungary's dictator from 1920 until 1944, and of anti-Semitic writers like Albert Wass and Jozsef Nyiro.
In May Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel returned Hungary's highest honour because of what he called a "whitewashing" of history, while acclaimed pianist Andras Schiff has stopped performing in his native country.
Hungary came in for more criticism this month after it emerged that 97-year-old Laszlo Csatary, the Simon Wiesenthal Center's most-wanted Nazi war criminal, has been living freely here for the past 15 years.
The former senior policeman, accused by the Wiesenthal Center of having helped organise the deportation of around 16,000 Jews to death camps during World War II, was arrested and placed under house arrest last Wednesday....
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