January: Anti-Semites desecrated 24 graves in southern Hungary, the fourth time in the past year that the Kaposvar graveyard has been vandalized. Local Jewish leader Laszlo Rona said that guard dogs may be used to protect the cemetery. Swastikas and arrow-crosses were painted on the tombs, and Stars of David were crossed out with graffiti proclaiming that "our homeland is not to be sold." The same slogan was scrawled on a gravestone in the same cemetery two weeks ago.
February: Update to January's attack on the Kaposvar cemetery: Two teenage boys have admitted vandalizing a Jewish cemetery in southern Hungary, police said Tuesday. The boys - aged 15 and 16 - also admitted carrying out similar attacks last month on a Holocaust memorial and a store owned by Chinese immigrants, said Gabor Biro, spokesman of the Kaposvar city police force. In Sunday's incident, the suspects painted swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans on two dozen graves. It was the fourth time in the past year the graveyard in Kaposvar, 190 kilometers southwest of Budapest, had been vandalized, and police were investigating whether the two suspects had any connection to the earlier cases.
April: "A blogger urged neo-Nazis to rally at the ticket office, and about 30 turned up on April 7 along with 300 counterdemonstrators. A second rally, four days later, drew about 1,000 more extremists and 3,000 antifascists, including the beleaguered Hungarian prime minister, Ferenc Gyurcsany, and the former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder."
April: A large swastika was drawn at the main Buda synagogue on Friday.
April: On April 9th, Zsolt Bayer published an article at the Magyar Hirlap in which he reiterated his firm belief in everything he wrote previously, choosing to apologize only about one sentence in it; that he should not have said that the Jews' "mere existence justifies anti-Semitism," but rather that their actions and statements (not their mere existence) are the cause and justification for anti-Semitism. The Magyar Hirlap dedicated half of his commentary page to Bayer's article, and the other half of that same page to the commentary of a civilian who signed her article as, "a Jewish Hungarian citizen," who supports and agrees with Bayer's commentary.
May: Gabor Zoltan, a guide who offered to show a visitor around, said that for the first time he could recall he was openly mocked on the street, not long ago, for wearing a yarmulke.
July: The 1941 pro-Nazi film "Jud Süss" was recently screened for several nights in a cellar in Budapest by a Neo-Nazi group. A lawyer, who said many of his family were victims of Nazism, said that the Paris Peace Treaty, which was signed by Hungary amongst other countries in 1947, contains a provision banning the operation of fascist organisations and the dissemination of such ideology. Meanwhile the 13th District chapter of the Free Democrats said it will file a report to the authorities over the recent screening of "Jud Süss." District chapter leader Viktor Szabadai told reporters that the film can only be screened in Europe with permission from the German foundation that holds the screening rights, but the organisers did not have a permit to screen the film.
July: Budapest echoed with insults to gays and Jews on Saturday, as several hundred radical demonstrators attacked the marchers in a gay pride parade, the police securing the event, and several political figures who appeared.
October: A number of radical right wing reactionaries tried to attack the Chabad Rabbi of Budapest. The Rabbi was walking down the street together with his family when about 5 activists came across to them, spat on them and threw bottles in their direction. Within a short time, police patrol cars that had been called by members of the congregation arrived. The Chabad Rabbi and his family were unharmed and there had not been any actual physical contact with the reactionaries.
November: On the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, stones were thrown and windows were shattered in the building of the Jewish community in the city of Debrecen in Hungary. The building is a synagogue, and used as a community center
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