(JNS.org) The Israeli Foreign Ministry summoned Hungary’s newly appointed ambassador to the Jewish state, Andor Nagy, to express “deep concern” over rising anti-Semitism in his country. According to the Jerusalem Post, Rafi Schutz, the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s director-general for Europe, expressed concern to Nagy about recent anti-Semitic statements by government officials and a growing trend to rewrite history concerning Hungary’s role in the Holocaust and its anti-Semitic World War II leader Miklos Horthy. Last November, despite protests from Jewish leaders, a statue of Horthy was erected by members of the far-right Jobbik party in Budapest. Horthy, a close ally of Hitler, played a direct role in the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust.