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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban seen at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on the last day of his official state visit to Israel, July 20, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

How the antisemitic far right fell for Israel

The Israeli right's embrace of Viktor Orbán typifies its convergence with a global far right espousing what scholar Jelena Subotić calls 'pro-Israel antisemitism.' She tells +972 why they have so much in common.

By Natasha Roth-Rowland September 7, 2022

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro during a visit to Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, April 2, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Foreign Ministry to High Court: War criminals welcome at Yad Vashem

Neither the museum nor Israel's Foreign Ministry think visits by war criminals and antisemites conflict with its mission to honor Holocaust victims.

By Orly Noy April 24, 2020

US President Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prior to Trump departure to Rome at the Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv on May 23, 2017. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Netanyahu’s embrace of far-right leaders leaves Jews vulnerable to anti-Semitism

By aligning himself with nationalist leaders who foster white supremacy, Netanyahu has abandoned world Jewry in a bid to bolster his own nationalist machinations. By Rachel Shenhav-Goldberg For some years now, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been forming close diplomatic relations with far-right nationalist world leaders. This alignment might promote Netanyahu’s plan to strengthen…

By +972 Magazine May 1, 2019

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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen during a visit to the Western Wall, Jerusalem, April 1, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

No Bolsonaro, visiting Yad Vashem doesn’t make you a ‘friend of the Jews’

Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro’s visit to Israel this week is just the latest step in Netanyahu’s warming relations with a new cadre of authoritarian leaders. By Sergio Storch Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s four-day visit to Israel demonstrates just how important the South American country has become to Netanyahu over the past few years. The trip includes…

By +972 Magazine April 3, 2019

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban hold a Rubik's Cube at the Hungary-Israel Business Forum in Budapest, Hungary, July 19, 2017. (Haim Zach/GPO)

The rise of the global far-right could energize the anti-occupation movement

The warm relations between Israel and a new crop of anti-democratic leaders are tragic, but they also expose the true nature of Israel’s relationship to the Palestinians. By Eli Bitan Only hours after Jair Bolsonaro was elected president of Brazil last Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to phone the extreme-right candidate. Netanyahu accepted Bolsonaro’s invitation to…

By +972 Magazine November 4, 2018

Mourners take part in a vigil for the victims of the shooting at Tree of Life Congregation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 29. (Governor Tom Wolf/CC BY 2.0)

I wish we could mourn Pittsburgh as one Jewish people — but we can’t

I keep hoping that our Jewish leaders will take one moment to do what they say they are here to do: defend Jewish lives when we are under attack. But they haven’t. By Simone Zimmerman I want to mourn with my people. I want to mourn with all of my beloved Jewish people in Pittsburgh…

By +972 Magazine October 30, 2018

President of the United States Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a Make America Great Again campaign rally at International Air Response Hangar at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport in Mesa, Arizona. (Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0)

Trump’s veiled anti-Semitism comes home to roost in Pittsburgh

Trump is well aware of how white supremacists and others interpret his remarks. What makes it so sinister is that he keeps doing it anyway. Six-hundred and forty-four days after President Donald Trump was sworn into office, the anti-Semitism his candidacy and presidency have unleashed has come home to roost. Details will continue to emerge…

By Edo Konrad October 28, 2018

A view of the Dohány Street Synagogue, also known as The Great Synagogue, in Budapest, Hungary. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Tapping the ‘hidden spring’ of anti-Semitism in Orban’s Hungary

In today's Hungary, overt anti-Semitism has been supplanted by dog-whistle politics, Holocaust revisionism, and an us-versus-them mentality that has created a rupture between Jewish institutions. And then there is Aurora, the leftist, Jewish activist community defying it all.

By Joshua Leifer October 12, 2018

Israeli activists block the convoy of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, as he leaves Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, July 19, 2018. (Oren Ziv)

‘A danger to humanity’: Activists block Hungarian PM’s convoy at Yad Vashem

Dozens of demonstrators, including Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors, block Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s convoy outside Israeli Holocaust museum. ‘He is a danger to humanity.’ By Oren Ziv Dozens of demonstrators blocked Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s motorcade as he left Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum, in Jerusalem Thursday, as part of his official visit to…

By Oren Ziv July 20, 2018