''Magyar Demokrata'' ( Hungarian: ''Hungarian Democrat'') is a weekly political magazine published in

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. It has been in circulation since 1997.

History and profile

''Magyar Demokrata'' was launched in 1997. It is published by artamondo kft on a weekly basis and has its headquarters in

. The magazine has a

right wing Right-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, typically supporting this position on the basis of natural law, economics, authori ...

conservative political leaning and is run by András Bencsik who is its editor. The weekly is described by

Krisztián Ungváry Krisztián Ungváry (born 30 October 1969) is a Hungarian historian of 20th century political and military history. He wrote about the siege of Budapest in World War II and researched the work of the secret service under the communist period o ...

as a far-right publication and by János Salamon as a

neo-Nazi Neo-Nazism comprises the post–World War II militant, social, and political movements that seek to revive and reinstate Nazism, Nazi ideology. Neo-Nazis employ their ideology to promote hatred and Supremacism#Racial, racial supremacy (ofte ...

or neo-Arrow Cross magazine. The magazine is also regarded as part of conservative media which appeared in the country in 2010. ''Magyar Demokrata'', a social-criticism and cultural magazine, features

anti-Israel Anti-Zionism is opposition to Zionism. Although anti-Zionism is a heterogeneous phenomenon, all its proponents agree that the creation of the modern State of Israel, and the movement to create a sovereign Jewish state in the region of Palestin ...

anti-Semitic Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is considered to be a form of racism. Antis ...

and pro-Nazi articles, according to the Heinrich Böll Stiftung and the

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.Understanding Hungary
''Heinrich Böll Stiftung''. 18 May 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2013. However, the weekly claims that anti-Semitism does not exist in Hungary and that it is “a political weapon used by liberals and leftists." Péter Csermely is one of the former editors of ''Magyar Demokrata''. In 2016 ''Magyar Demokrata'' sold 19,000 copies.

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History and profile

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