Hungary Honors Iran’s Ahmadinejad, Jewish Groups Outraged

Jewish groups are outraged that a Hungarian university would invite “openly antisemitic” former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak at an event this week and are asking why he would be given the opportunity to spread his rhetoric.

Two Hungarian Jewish congregations, a Jewish advocacy group, and the Israeli embassy are the latest to protest after Budapest-based Ludovika University of Public Service invited Ahmadinejad to an academic meeting, reports The Times of Israel.

The former leader has said that Israel will be “wiped off the map” and called the Holocaust a “myth.”

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