Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has reiterated his longstanding criticism of the mass migration policies of Western Europe, stating that Hungary will continue to refuse the policies of mass migration, which he said are connected to terrorism and ghettoisation.
“We made a tolerance offer to Brussels: every country can deal with #migration the way they want to, but they cannot force #Hungary to copy the failed migration policies of Western Europe, Prime Minister Orban said on X, formerly known as Twitter, and added, “We don’t want terrorism, gang wars and mini Gazas in Budapest!”
The Hungarian leader is likely referring to the outbreaks of pro-Palestinian protests that have swept across Western Europe following the October 7th massacre of over 1,400 Israeli civilians by the terrorist group Hamas, and Israel’s declaration of war on the group.
Over the weekend, pro-Palestinian marchers descended on London despite calls for them to postpone their actions due to Armistice Day and Remembrance Day also occurring on Sunday
Around 300,000 people took part in the pro-Palestine march that ended up becoming violent, with police making around 140 arrests.
Gary Mond, chairman of the National Jewish Assembly slammed the marchers saying, “Those who March against Israel are almost always opposed to many aspects of a free society, which Remembrance Sunday is about defending.”
Prime Minister Orbán’s post included a video in which he stated, “I always say that we have a tolerance offer. I tell this to the Germans, the French and the Brusselians: you did it the way you did it, do it the way you do it. We don’t want to tell you whether it is good or bad. We ask one thing, that you tolerate us doing it differently because this is our country, this is our business. Leave us alone.”
He went on to state:
Don’t try to tell us who can stay in Hungary. Don’t send migrants here whom it was a mistake to let into your country, and you want to get rid of them by sending them here. Don’t do that. Tolerate the fact that this is a different country, that we have not made a mistake, that we have a different position and that we don’t want to become like you. We don’t want mini Gazas in the districts of Budapest. And we don’t want terrorist attacks, gang wars and all the things we see in the big cities of Western Europe.
Prime Minister Orbán has long been critical of mass migration policies and how they link to terrorist activity. As early as November of 2015, just a week after the Islamic State’s massacre at the Bataclan nightclub in Paris, Orbán stated that he believed basically all of the terrorists were migrants or from migration backgrounds
“Of course it’s not accepted, but the factual point is that all the terrorists are basically migrants,” Orbán said and added, “The question is when they migrated to the European Union.”
In 2017, Orbán stated that migration was a Trojan Horse for terrorism, saying, “The people that come to us don’t want to live according to our culture and customs but according to their own—at European standards of living.”
The Hungarian leader’s 2017 comments have proved true on more than one occasion, from the Berlin 2016 Christmas Market truck attack, the Nice Basilica attack, the 2020 murder of French teacher Samual Paty, the murder of another teacher in Arras this year, to the terrorist attack in Brussels in October that saw a failed asylum seeker from Tunisia kill two Swedish nationals.
Time and time again, terrorist attacks in Europe have either directly involved illegal immigrants and asylum seekers, refugees, or those from migration backgrounds
Last month, Prime Minister Orbán commented just days after the Brussels attack saying, “I very much hope that more and more people here in Brussels will see that there is a very clear link between terrorist acts and migration.”
“Those who support migration also support terrorism. We are against terrorism and therefore we do not support migration,” he said.
