Hungarian Prime Minister-elect Peter Magyar said that his government will arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he steps foot in the country, joining roughly a dozen other European countries now off-limits for the man wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity in Gaza. Magyar, who takes office next month, said that he is ending the country’s…
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On Sunday night, the streets of Budapest were filled. Tens of thousands of Hungarians poured into the streets along the Danube River, singing folk songs and waving flags celebrating the end of Viktor Orbán’s rule. A young man named Mark Szekeres, his face painted with the colors of the Hungarian flag, told CBC News: “This election was about a clash of civilizations. Either you belong in a Western…
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According to most mainstream media accounts, a “political earthquake” has taken place in Hungary. The European far right’s poster boy and MAGA darling Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was defeated in a landslide on Sunday by political upstart Péter Magyar. The outcome of this election is indeed politically significant, as the ousting of Orbán by Hungarian voters will curtail Donald Trump’s foreign…
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For years now, hard right, anti-immigrant, and in some cases overtly fascist political parties have been on the march in Europe, veering from one electoral triumph to the next. When large numbers of refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war began arriving in Europe in 2015, right populist groupings seized on the humanitarian crisis to cultivate a narrative that the whole continent would inevitably…
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After over two years of arming and otherwise supporting the Israeli government as it lays waste to the Gaza Strip — even after an October ceasefire deal — the United States this week officially joined an International Court of Justice case to defend Israel from allegations of genocide. The United Nations’ primary tribunal announced Friday that the Trump administration had filed a declaration…
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