The Hungarian government has demanded an apology from the Joe Biden administration for spreading a “false” story about a Holocaust memorial being vandalised.
Speaking at what was described as a ‘High-Level Side Event on Globalizing Efforts to Combat Antisemitism’ by the United States Mission to the United Nations earlier this month, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield had alleged that, alongside a Jewish grave site being vandalised with a swastika, a Russian missile striking a Ukrainian synagogue, and “someone with hate in their heart” throwing a Molotov cocktail at an American synagogue in New Jersey, a “Holocaust memorial was vandalised in Hungary.”
Western officials and commentators have often suggested that Hungary is a hive of anti-Semitism, particularly when the government has criticised the by-his-own-account atheist plutocrat George Soros, despite the Israeli government coming to Budapest’s defence — but this latest accusation has…
