Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
June 12, 2014
The Jew of Jobbik, who allegedly didn’t know he was a Jew before someone told him (seems like he could have checked the mirror…) is now totally Jewed-out.
He was a rising star of Hungary’s far-right, dumped by his party after he admitted he was a Jew. Two years later, Csanad Szegedi has completed an astonishing transformation: He goes to synagogue, eats Kosher food and has adopted the Hebrew name Dovid.
As a leader in Hungary’s Jobbik Party, Mr. Szegedi whipped up crowds by accusing Jews of “buying up the country” and mocking the “Jewishness” of Hungary’s political class. Then came the revelation that upended his career: His maternal grandparents were Jews — which under Jewish law made him one, too.
Mr. Szegedi acknowledged his roots after video surfaced of a suspected blackmailer confronting him with evidence of his Jewishness.
In the political wilderness, Mr. Szegedi has apparently had a spiritual awakening.
Last year, he sought out a young rabbi in the local Orthodox Jewish community. After a period of intense religious instruction, Mr. Szegedi was circumcised last June, a year to the day after he broke with Jobbik. Today he takes Jewish religion classes with his wife, who is also converting to Judaism.
“I am just as Hungarian as until now, but I have expanded my own identity with the Jewish identity,” said Mr. Szegedi, 31. “I have two tasks ahead of me — to teach and to learn. I want to be a bridge.”
Mr. Szegedi was a founder of the Hungarian Guard, a now-banned militia whose black uniforms recalled the Arrow Cross, a pro-Nazi party that briefly governed Hungary at the end of the Second World War and killed thousands of Jews. As a Jobbik member, he took one of the three seats the party won in 2009 European Parliament elections.
Mr. Szegedi kept his seat after being dropped by Jobbik and went on to advocate stronger ties with Israel and Roma integration, while condemning the rise of extremism in the EU.
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Chief Chabad Rabbi Boruch Oberlander, who is teaching Mr. Szegedi about Judaism, said the former rightist’s change of heart appears to be authentic.
“He is still very young so he can start all over again,” said Rabbi Oberlander. “He is winning many friends in the Jewish community.”
After his circumcision, Rabbi Oberlander added, “Some Jews said, ‘Ah, now we see that he is really serious.”’
Rabbi Oberlander said Mr. Szegedi was an “extreme example” of how Hungarian Jews were rediscovering their identities. Upon learning he was a Jew, Mr. Szegedi also found out that his grandmother survived Auschwitz, and his grandfather a Nazi labour camp.
The grandmother, Magdolna Klein, kept her heritage hidden for fear the persecution would be repeated, a common choice among Hungarian Holocaust survivors. Those fears, still present nearly 70 years later, made her plead with her grandson to keep quiet after he learned he was a Jew, Mr. Szegedi said.
It is a very strange story. How a person’s entire identity could change because they found out a secret genetic disability is almost unbelievable. It looks very much like a set up, but who knows with these Jews. They are very sick, and you can put nothing past them.
Jobbik itself is very strange though.
I have been supportive of them, generally, because they do appear to be true Antisemites, but their bizarre view that Hungarians are Turks makes me personally sick, and their standoffishness with Front National and even the Golden Dawn (they argue that Cyprus is Turkish) is disheartening and weird.