Magyar Demokrata
EditorAndrás Bencsik
CategoriesPolitical magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Publisherartamondo kft.
Founded1997
CountryHungary
Based inBudapest
LanguageHungarian
Websitewww.demokrata.hu
ISSN1417-6432
OCLC40822619

Magyar Demokrata (Hungarian: Hungarian Democrat)[1] is a weekly political magazine published in Budapest, Hungary. It has been in circulation since 1997.

History and profile

Magyar Demokrata was launched in 1997.[2] It is published by artamondo kft on a weekly basis and has its headquarters in Budapest.[2][3] The magazine has a right wing conservative political leaning and is run by András Bencsik who is its editor.[4][5]

The weekly is described by Krisztián Ungváry as a far-right publication[6] and by János Salamon as a neo-Nazi or neo-Arrow Cross magazine.[7] The magazine is also regarded as part of conservative media which appeared in the country in 2010.[8]

Magyar Demokrata, a social-criticism and cultural magazine, features anti-Israel, anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi articles, according to the Heinrich Böll Stiftung and the United States Department of State.[1][9][10] However, the weekly claims that anti-Semitism does not exist in Hungary and that it is “a political weapon used by liberals and leftists."[11]

Péter Csermely is one of the former editors of Magyar Demokrata.[12]

In 2016 Magyar Demokrata sold 19,000 copies.[2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Understanding Hungary Heinrich Böll Stiftung. 18 May 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 "Magyar Demokrata". Eurotopics. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  3. ↑ Hungary Worldpress. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  4. ↑ Hungary's Echo TV Cancels Right-Wing Presenters' TV Show XpatLoop. 20 April 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  5. ↑ Magyar Demokrata Budapost. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  6. ↑ Krisztián Ungváry. (5 February 2012). Turanism: The ‘new’ ideology of the far right The Budapest Times. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  7. ↑ "Does a civil-war mentality exist in Hungary?". Eurozine. 30 August 2007. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
  8. ↑ Daiva Repeckaite. "Independent Journalism under Increasing Threat in Hungary". Equal Times. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
  9. ↑ Paul Lendvai (2012). Hungary: Between Democracy and Authoritarianism. London: Hurst & Company. p. 189. ISBN 978-1-84904-196-6.
  10. ↑ "2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Hungary". United States Department of State. 8 April 2011. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
  11. ↑ László Molnár (1 November 2010). "Anti-Semitism in Hungary". Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  12. ↑ Randolph L. Braham. "Assault on Historical Memory: Hungarian Nationalists and the Holocaust" (PDF). USHMM. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
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