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Hungary slams US for erroneous Holocaust memorial vandalism claim
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/367626 ^ | 17/2/23 | Linda Thomas-Greenfield

Posted on 02/17/2023 6:29:22 AM PST by Eleutheria5

The Hungarian government is demanding an apology from the Biden administration after US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield told a high-level UN summit on antisemitism earlier in the month that a vandalized Holocaust memorial honoring Raoul Wallenberg was located in Hungary.

Listing recent antisemitic incidents – including a Molotov cocktail being thrown at a synagogue in New Jersey, a Russian missile hitting a synagogue in Ukraine, and a Jewish cemetery being vandalized with a swastika – Thomas-Greenfield told the ‘High-Level Side Event on Globalizing Efforts to Combat Antisemitism’ that a “Holocaust memorial was vandalized in Hungary,” Breitbart reported.

But the claim was erroneous. The memorial in question, a sculpture dedicated to Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Jews in Hungary during Holocaust, is actually located in the Ångfärje Park in Helsingborg, Sweden.

In late January, officials in Helsingborg announced that an unknown individual had dumped white paint over the statue.

The vandalism was part of a dangerous trend of attacks on the country's Jewish community and its institutions. Sweden has experienced record levels of antisemitism in recent years.

Hungarian Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Zoltán Kovács wrote that the Hungarian Embassy to the UN was demanding a public correction and formal apology from the US Embassy, according to the news outlet.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: hungary; smollet; sweden; wallenberg
And the Wallenberg statue was still holding its Subway sandwich.
1 posted on 02/17/2023 6:29:22 AM PST by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

Sweden huh? Anyone want to take a wild guess as to who the guilty perps were?


2 posted on 02/17/2023 6:31:14 AM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: Eleutheria5

“Polish Death Camps” redux.


3 posted on 02/17/2023 6:33:32 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: bigdaddy45

The marauding Mohammedans.


4 posted on 02/17/2023 6:34:35 AM PST by nwrep
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To: Eleutheria5

It’s a safe bet that the perpetrator’s first name isn’t Erik, Anders, or Karl Gustav.


5 posted on 02/17/2023 6:36:56 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Eleutheria5

How long will Hungary wait for an apology from the Biden regime?


6 posted on 02/17/2023 6:57:58 AM PST by Ex-Episcopalian
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To: Eleutheria5

DC neocons have made removing Orban a top priority


7 posted on 02/17/2023 6:58:57 AM PST by PGR88 (, )
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To: Eleutheria5
Sweden has experienced record levels of antisemitism in recent years.

It's a complete mystery as to why. A mystery, I say.

8 posted on 02/17/2023 7:02:13 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Eleutheria5

Considering the West’s ongoing support for neo-fascist Ukraine, these antisemetic vandalism accusations seem trivial and contrived.


9 posted on 02/17/2023 7:57:32 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Eleutheria5

Sweden has experienced record levels of antisemitism in recent years.


Paint on a statue being a much bigger problem than say, record levels of rapes in recent years.


10 posted on 02/17/2023 8:09:22 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: mac_truck

So do the charges that Ukraine is presently neo-fascist.

Please go through the same litany of old and ill-founded accusations. Pleeeeeease!/s


11 posted on 02/18/2023 8:23:44 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David.)
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To: Ex-Episcopalian

Hope they’re not holding their breath.


12 posted on 02/18/2023 8:25:40 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David.)
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To: Eleutheria5
Please go through the same litany of old and ill-founded accusations. Pleeeeeease!

🤔🤔🤔


13 posted on 02/18/2023 8:54:31 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: mac_truck

Yawn.


14 posted on 02/18/2023 8:55:45 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David.)
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To: mac_truck

Who was Stepan Banderas

America had slavery!

Old. Sloppy generalizations. Lazy.


15 posted on 02/18/2023 9:01:28 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David.)
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