Hungary: Jobbik leader says Son of Saul is proof of "Holocaust industry"

Via Everyday Antisemitism, FAA:

Hungarian far-right politician Előd Novák has claimed that funding from a Hungarian film board for the Golden Globe winning Holocaust drama Son of Saul is evidence that the “Holocaust industry” is flourishing. Many antisemites claim that Jews fabricated or exaggerated the Holocaust so that they could ‘cash in’ on war reparations and other benefits, and they call this the “Holocaust industry”.

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Novák is deputy chairman of Hungary’s Jobbik party, which holds a fifth of the seats in the country’s National Assembly. The party is widely considered to be an antisemitic neo-Nazi nationalist movement.

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 Background:

• Outpouring of antisemitism after Hungarian Holocaust drama wins Golden Globe 
• Fidesz intellectuals believe Son of Saul proves there is no antisemitism in Hungary