Israel has a tough time finding a Hungarian leader not identified with anti-Semites

This is a factual error. Albert Wass was never an anti-Semite, nor was Jözsef Nyirő. I would offer to translate their works if it would help you, but are you interested in the facts, or the Soviet propaganda?

Unless the Speaker of the Knesset finds a " cosmopolitain" as the political elite in Hungary now refer to Jews or non-xenophobic Hungarians , for the ceremony, I wish him luck.

It should be mentioned that the US government investigated the charges for war crimes and found there was no solid evidence to substantiate the charge. It is also worth noting that his charges were involved with the Romanian treatment of their Hungarian minority and could well have been political.

The United States has not been reluctant to deport war criminals. The enmity between Hungary and Romania over Transylvania at the time of the trial along with the history of Romania's home grown pogroms puts conviction of a Transylvanian Hungarian by a Romania court in doubt. Moreover perception is reality and where Israelis will rightly see anti -semitisem in a personality Hungarians may well be looking at something entirely different.