Volume 4 No 2 - Journal for the Study of Antisemitism

2012] LETTER FROM BUDAPEST 587should open a new Facebook page under a new name. Doing this would betotally against my basic values.Should I ask for an unlisted phone number as if I were a secret agent ora criminal? Where do we live? I have always been an open and healthyperson without frustrations. I am not going to change my lifestyle and valuesbecause of a group of neo-Nazis whose goal and joy in life is to hate.Let them call me: I will not pick up the phone. They will tire of it aftera while. I can live without Facebook until things become more positive, oruntil the government miraculously starts finally exercising its responsibilityand using the full force of the law to stop the neo-Nazis.I will not change telephone numbers;I will not change my place of work;I will not appear on Facebook under a false name;And I will not remain silent!This is exactly what they want! We must not live in fear and besilenced, because then hatred would triumph. I will not fade away and existas my shadow under a false identity.—Budapest, September 8, 2012*Excerpted from Eszter Garai-Édler’s PDF Threatened and Intimidated. For thefull PDF, e-mail to eszteredler@gmail.com. The author is desk editor at GeographicalResearch Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences H-1112 Budapest, Budaörsiút 45/H-1388 Budapest P.O. Box 64; Skype: eszter_garai.