Neo-Nazi protesters disrupted a Chanukah celebration in Budapest.

Members of the right wing paramilitary Hungarian Guard group shouted anti-Semitic epithets in the middle of Heroes Square, not far from a Chanukah celebration organized by the Balint-Haz Jewish Community Center, the Jewish Agency for Israel, and Hungarian Jewish youth organizations.

The extremists also raised a red-and-white striped Arpad flag. The flag was used by a far-right-wing, pro-German, anti-Semitic national socialist party led by Ferenc Szálasi that ruled Hungary from October 1944 to January 1945, and sent thousands of Jews to their deaths.

Several hundred people participated in the celebration at Heroes Square, in which the group attempted to create the shape of a Menorah out of people and lit torches.

A local Rabbi congratulated the participants for coming to the public square to create what he called the largest human Menorah. He asked God to bless all of the participants in the event as well as the nearby protesters.

Police reportedly registered the identities of some of the protesters.