Israel's foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, today called on Hungary to bring in laws banning "hate speech" during a visit to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27.
"We must stop the spread of anti-Semitism in this way because extremist movements are ever more boldly raising their heads in Hungary," Lieberman said, according to the Hungarian News Agency website.
Earlier in the day, the prime ministerial candidate of the governing Hungarian Socialist Party, Attila Mesterhazy, tabled a motion to ban "hate speech" in the Hungarian parliament.
Budapest, the capital of Hungary, is home to Central and Eastern Europe's largest Jewish population -- with some estimates as high as 100,000 -- as well as Europe's largest synagogue. Some 600,000 Hungarian Jews are believed to have perished during the Holocaust.
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