Over the past year anti-Semitism has been on the rise in Hungary although both the governing and the opposition parties have been outspoken in opposing it, the Israeli Ambassador to Hungary told MTI on Monday.

"This is insufficient" Ambassador Aliza Bin-Noun said, "for they should be more emphatic in emphasizing that anti-Semitism is unacceptable." Nowadays a growing number of people seem to be making less and less of an effort to conceal their anti-Semitic views, she added.

As concrete examples, the ambassador referred to the Hungarian Guard, a paramilitary arm of the radical right-wing Jobbik party, and to far-right statements published in certain dailies, on websites and voiced by TV channels.