  A leading lawmaker in Hungary known for his rants against
Jewish people was forced to resign from the far-right Jobbik
Party after he publicly admitted to being a Jew himself.
Despite learning in 2010 that his grandparents on his mother's
side were Jewish Holocaust survivors, Csanad Szegedi continued
to attack the "Jewishness" of his political rivals and claimed
Jewish artists were desecrating national Hungarian symbols.
After rumors began to spread online that Szegedi was hiding his
Jewish ancestry, the politician came clean, and was asked to
step down.  "I learnt not long ago that I had parents of Jewish
origins, that's the big news," he told the extreme-right daily
Barikad back in June. "I think that what counts is not to know
who is a pure race Hungarian, the important thing is the way one
behaves as a Hungarian."  The Jobbik Party claims it has no
problem with his Jewish background — rather they take issue when
his attempt to keep the matter silent by trying to bribe the
convicted felon who first con