A member of Jobbik's Hungarian Guard

The Hungarian neo-fascist Jobbik party have drawn up a list of countries and international organisations it regards are “enemies” of Hungary. Gabor Vona, the leader of Jobbik and Prime Ministerial candidate for his party, said that he would come into conflict, predictably, with America, Israel and the IMF if his party was elected to power in the April 2010 Hungarian General Election.

Politics.hu reported the following:

“In a speech held in Esztergom over the weekend, Jobbik chairman Gábor Vona (also the party’s prime ministerial candidate) revealed what can be considered to be the party’s “enemies list”, origo.hu reports. If the party were to come into power, Vona said they would come into conflict with the IMF, United States and Israel in their bid to reform Hungary’s finances and economy, although he did not give specifics.”

In 2008 the IMF bailed out Hungary with a $15.7 billion life-line as part of a program designed to ease financial market stress in the former Soviet Republic, which has been hit badly by global financial turmoil.

Vona flanked by Guard members

Hostility towards the United States and Israel is a common theme throughout Europe’s neo-fascist network, as with their hatred for global institutions like NATO and in this case the IMF, which are seen as part of global Jewish conspiracy, or a New World Order as it is euphemistically referred to.

In recent times the BNP have tried to distance itself from its anti-Semitic past by claiming that it is a friend of Israel and Jews, but this hasn’t stopped it from publically associating itself with ultra-nationalists like Jobbik, Germany’s NPD, France’s Front National, Italy’s Forza Nouva, Sweden’s National Democrats and Bulgaria’s Ataka, all of which have a deep hatred for Israel, America and Jews.

The BNP’s kidding no one but themselves when they claim they have reformed their anti-Semitic and extremist ways, when it is clear to everyone else that they continue to have love affairs with Europe’s revolting fascists and enemies of Britain’s national interest?

For more information relating to Jobbik and its relationship with the BNP please read our briefing by clicking here.

Maurice Cousins

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Hungarian Guard members marching

Jobbik, the Hungarian fascist party with close links to Nick Griffin MEP, have responded to Nothing British via its English website.

Jobbik deny that money was raised for the Hungarian Guard and that no member who was present at the session was wearing jeans with Nazi insignia sewn onto the back. 

A local journalist for the Camden News Journal who was present at Jobbik’s pub meeting has also given his take on Sunday’s events. Tom Foot reports that the meeting was used to raise money for the New Hungarian Guard. 

Foot also writes that the Gloucester Arms’ landlord, John Coyne, has said: “They are not National Front or anything like that. They are just Hungarians doing their stuff. They put their flag up and sing their anthem.”

Unfortunately, Jobbik are not just ordinary Hungarians. The Hungarian Guard, the para-military wing of the extremist party, is an organisation that is proscribed by Hungarian courts after it ruled that past marches have fuelled ethnic tensions and led to a disruption of public order. Many of Jobbik’s leaders regularly incite hostility towards Hungary’s vulnerable minorities. Sunday’s meeting did little to dispel their neo-fascist reputation.   

Meanwhile, the Jewish Chronicle have reported that Great Ormond Street Hospital, who the British-Jobbik Association claim to have made a £230 dontation too, are yet to recieve any money from the organisation. 

Great Ormond have yet to receive any money

A hospital spokesman said: “If we were to become aware of such a donation, we would investigate carefully and judge on the principles given above.”

For further information on Jobbik please see our dossier.

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Gloucester Arms pub Kentish Town

Sunday 6th December 2009 - Forty-five Hungarian fascist sympathisers met at a Kentish Town pub to raise funds for Jobbik, the Hungarian nationalist party, and to participate in a Q&A on nationalist issues like the threat of Israelis buying Hungarian property and the problem of gypsies.

The Hungarian courts have already made it clear that they find the values of Jobbik’s militia to be inimical to those of ordinary Hungarians (for the Nothing British Information Note on Jobbik, click here).

We see no reason why this sort of meeting should go unchallenged in the UK.

Sunday’s event was organised by The British-Jobbik Society and was hosted by Zoltan Fuzessy, Jobbik’s UK-based former webmaster and current Vice-President of Foreign Affairs. Fuzessy is, according to the invitation to Sunday’s meeting,  Chief of Staff to Csanad Szegedi MEP, a militia commander in the Hungarian Guard, a Hungarian supremacist, a gypsy-baiter and a Israel-hater. Outside there was a 10-person anti-fascist demonstration.

Zoltan Fuzessy has met with Nick Griffin

The whole day was reminiscent of an expats’ meeting to moan about how the “Old Country” was going to the dogs and mutterings about those they held responsible (Israel, gypsies, socialists, etc).

The crowd was a mixed bunch. From well-spoken tweed-wearing aspiring town squires who claim to work in the City to construction workers such as (in one case) fire alarm engineers and the like. Some of the tough-looking blokes wore neo-Nazi insignia and Swastikas sewn onto their clothing. They all seemed passionate supporters for Jobbik, the Hungarian neo-fascist organisation with close ties to Nick Griffin MEP.

Most alarming is the Society’s apparent role as a revenue-raising outfit for Jobbik’s banned militia, the Hungarian Guard.

Nothing British has an undercover recording of the event which includes a financial collection request for the Hungarian by Fuzessy – click here to listen (it’s in Hungarian but being translated and transcribed). Following Fuzessy’s appeal, a red bucket with a sticker of the Jobbik logo and the Hungarian shield was placed on a table by the Hungarian in a tweed suit and most people contributed.

Nothing illegal happened, but the tone and content of Sunday’s meeting did little to dispel suggestions that the Hungarian Guard is not the sort of organisation that we want to see holding fund-raisers in the British suburbs. 

The contribution of Hungarians to London life, particularly our cultural life, is well-known and much-appreciated, from the food of Egon Ronay, to the music of Bela Bartok and the buildings of Erno Goldfinger.

However, it is fair to expect anyone who lives and works in Britain to subscribe to some simple values. This point is well made in the Home Office’s introduction to visitors, “there is a general principle that all people should respect the law and the rights of others.” Whereas the Hungarian Guard is an organisation that is proscribed by Hungarian courts after it ruled that past marches have fuelled ethnic tensions and led to a disruption of public order.

The British-Jobbik Society disputed The Times’ coverage on Jobbik. You can read their statement on their website.

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This Sunday Jobbik, the Hungarian neo-Arrow Cross and neo-fascist party and political ally of the BNP, are holding a drinks party in North London.

Zoltan Fuzessy with BNP leader Nick Griffin

The party is in aid of the setting up of the British Jobbik Society, whose aim is that Hungarians living in Great Britain “understand and support the national values and the programme of Jobbik”.

Guest speakers to this event include UK based Zoltan Fuzessy – chief of staff to Csanad Szegedi MEP – and Tamas Feher – head of the British Jobbik Association.

Jobbik are a revolting party. They’re an anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, pro-Hamas, gypsy-hating, conspiratorial and homophobic mob.

Demagogic Jobbik leaders regularly incite hatred against Hungary’s vulnerable Jewish, gay and Roma population, which in some cases has lead to extreme violence. See the report on Jobbik members involvement in a firebombing and shooting of a Roma family.

Nothing British is deeply concerned about the incremental rise of pan-European National Socialism and the threat it poses to our gentle British democratic values of decency and standing up the little guy. 

In the past, Britain has fought long and hard against foreign fascism and we want nothing to do with it today.

More on this to follow.

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Brown shirted Jobbik militia-men

Hungarian police in riot gear broke up a recruitment meeting for Jobbik’s outlawed  neo-fascist militia, the Hungarian Guard.

Some 50 uniformed militiamen were on hand last Friday at a beer hall at Csepel, a poor industrial suburb of the Hungarian capital, when some 200 police arrived to break up the meeting to launch a national recruitment campaign.

The commander of the Guard called for reinforcements, and some 400 guardsmen were rushed to the scene, but diplomatic bargaining ended the confrontation. Police made three arrests.

A landmark court ruling earlier this year banned the paramilitary Guard, the private army of the extreme nationalist Jobbik Party. The Guard displays the colors and marches to the tunes of the defunct Arrow Cross, a Hungarian movement that murdered thousands of Jews, Gypsies and political dissidents during the Holocaust. The ruling also banned the uniform.

Csepel council members are organizing an all-party motion to reinforce an earlier local government decision declaring the Guard “unwelcome” in the district. This follows a brawl last week at Sajobabony in the impoverished northeast of Hungary where hundreds of Guardsmen and their supporters clashed with Gypsy residents outraged by racist attitudes expressed at a Jobbik public meeting.

Hungary’s Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai said: “Those who try to run an organisation banned by the court and march in its uniform, those who refuse to obey police orders and repeatedly provoke others, and those who go against the constitution of the Republic of Hungary must expect apt retribution”.

Last month Jobbik and the BNP entered into a new formal political alliance in the European Parliament.

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