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antisemitism in Austria

A protester holds up a placard as people take part in a protest organized by the Jewish Austrian Students' Union in front of the parliament in Vienna on November 11, 2025, against an event taking place named after Franz Dinghofer, an Austrian vice chancellor in the 1920s. (Joe Klamar/AFP)
November 12, 2025, 6:39 am
Protest held outside Austrian parliament against event honoring declared antisemite
Far-right speaker goes ahead with ‘symposium’ named for vice chancellor who joined Nazi party during WWII, despite criticism from Jewish community and major political parties
By AFP
Stav Ben-Shushan, who said a man bit part of his ear off after shouting anti-Israel slogans, on July 26, 2025 in Athens. (Channel 12 screenshot)
July 27, 2025, 1:18 pm
Israeli says man screamed ‘F*ck Israel, I’m Hamas,’ bit part of his ear off in Greece
Victim says he and attacker both arrested; in separate incident, Israeli cellist says he was kicked out of a restaurant in Vienna for speaking Hebrew
By ToI Staff
France's National Rally leader Jordan Bardella (right) and Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli at the international conference on combating antisemitism in Jerusalem, March 27, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 28, 2025, 4:21 am
Right-wing politics take center stage at Israel’s controversial antisemitism confab
Amid boycotts due to inclusion of far-right EU lawmakers, Jerusalem event features appearances from Bosnian leader facing arrest warrant and sanctioned ex-Paraguay president
By Zev Stub
Screen capture from video of far-right speaker of Austria's lower house of parliament FPO's Walther Rosenkranz faces Jewish protesters who stopped him from laying a wreath at a Holocaust memorial in Vienna, November 8, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 10, 2024, 8:04 am
Jewish students prevent Austrian far-right speaker from laying Kristallnacht wreath
Forming cordon, Vienna protesters tell FPO party’s Rosenkranz ‘we do not want you to spit in our ancestors’ faces’; he eventually leaves, saying he’ll yield to their ‘violence’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
File: A police van drives past Fiaker horses at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, Austria, March 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Heinz-Peter Bader)
December 11, 2023, 2:12 pm
Austria nabs teen for allegedly planning terror attack on Vienna synagogue
Interior minister says 16-year-old wrote in online chat he wanted weapon to carry out attack; authorities find guides for making bombs, weapons in home
By Agencies
This picture provided by the Austrian Interior Ministry on June 29, 2023 shows secured weapons, objects and ammunitions and swastika flags. (BMI/Gerd Pachauer via AP)
July 1, 2023, 9:09 am
Austria seizes vast trove of weapons, swastika flags in raid on far-right biker gang
Haul includes 35 long firearms, 25 submachine guns, 100 pistols, 1,000 weapons components, 400 signal weapons, 10,000 rounds of ammunition, grenade launcher, Nazi memorabilia
By AFP
File: The statue of antisemitic former Vienna mayor Karl Lueger (1844-1910) smeared with black tar paint at Ringstrasse Boulevard in Vienna, Austria, on November 22, 2022. (Alex HALADA/AFP)
June 7, 2023, 4:32 pm
To shift ‘perspective,’ Vienna to tilt statue of antisemitic mayor admired by Hitler
Artist proposing idea hopes bronze of Karl Lueger will look like it’s falling over; Jewish leaders call measure ‘halfhearted,’ press for removal
By Gabe Friedman
Trains parked at a station in Vienna, Austria, March 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)
May 19, 2023, 6:53 am
Austrian police charge 2 men after Hitler speech plays on train’s loudspeakers
Authorities believe suspects infiltrated intercom system to broadcast 20 minutes of antisemitic audio, in violation of Austrian laws barring pro-Nazi statements
By Gabe Friedman
Yasser Arafat, left, Austrian chancellor Bruno Kreisky, and former West German chancellor Willy Brandt at a press conference after three days of talks on the Middle East situation in Vienna, July 11, 1979. (AP Photo)
April 13, 2023, 4:52 am
How Austria’s Jewish chancellor helped country evade responsibility for Nazi past
A new book by Israeli diplomat Daniel Aschheim examines Bruno Kreisky, Austria’s longest-serving leader, and his ambivalent relationship with his own Judaism and the Jewish state
By Robert Philpot
Sigmund Freud in his study at Berggasse 19 in Vienna, 1934. (Freud Museum London)
September 26, 2022, 11:01 am
How Sigmund Freud fled Nazi Austria, leaving siblings who perished in the Holocaust
In his new book ‘Saving Freud,’ award-winning journalist Andrew Nagorski explores the history surrounding the father of modern psychology’s harrowing escape to safety in London
By JP O’ Malley
Author Salman Rushdie is tended to after he was attacked during a lecture, August 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, about 75 miles (120 km) south of Buffalo. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman)
August 26, 2022, 9:14 pm
Attack on Rushdie mirrors 1925 killing of writer who satirized Vienna antisemitism
Jewish-born Hugo Bettauer, whose ‘The City Without Jews’ became an international best seller, was assassinated after being denounced by Austrian Nazis
By jonathan bate
An armed policeman stands guard in front of the synagogue in Seitenstettengasse in Vienna on November 3, 2020, one day after the shootings nearby and at multiple locations across central Vienna. (Hans Punz/APA/AFP)
May 14, 2022, 11:43 am
Nearly 1,000 antisemitic incidents in Austria in 2021, Jewish community group says
Jewish Community of Vienna records 65% increase in incidents; vast majority were ‘abusive behavior’ in person or online, with largest proportion of perpetrators from far-right
By AP
Mourners light candles on October 10, 2019, at the synagogue in Halle, eastern Germany, one day after the deadly anti-Semitic shooting. (Ronny Hartmann / AFP)
April 1, 2022, 11:31 am
Austrian neo-Nazi rapper with songs tied to Halle synagogue attack jailed
Suspect who went by pseudonym Mr. Bond gets 10 years; court also sentences his younger brother to 4 years for managing antisemitic website
By AFP
A sceren image of a post by artist Manfred Kielnhofer from Austria depicting an Israeli flag with a star of David made up of syringes and one of his statues. (Facebook via JTA)
January 21, 2022, 7:15 pm
Austrian artist under fire after posting Star of David made of syringes
Two cities plan to remove statues by Manfred Kielnhofer following his use of antisemitic tropes in protest against vaccine mandate
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The Central Council of Jews in Germany gave the group an award in 2020. (Omas Gegen Rechts/via JTA)
January 11, 2022, 4:32 am
In Germany and Austria, a movement of grandmothers is taking on the far-right
Omas Gegen Rechts has picked up steam since starting off with 10 elderly women in 2017, and its efforts are being recognized by progressive activists and the far-right alike
By Joe Baur
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