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Illustrative: A man holds a smartphone showing the app for ride-sharing service Uber in London, on March 17, 2021. (Tolga Akmen / AFP)
August 19, 2025, 12:28 pm
Jewish family assaulted and called ‘child killers’ by Vienna Uber driver
Driver said to have been immediately suspended; community leader demands ‘decisive action,’ warning that otherwise ‘soon there will be no place left for Jews in Europe’
By ToI Staff
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
Illustrative: Police in front of a school in Vienna, Austria, February 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Roland Zak)
September 10, 2020, 2:58 pm
Austrian government triples security funding for local Jewish community
Community head Oskar Deutsch hails annual grant of €4 million as ‘historic step’ that anchors Jewish life ‘as a natural and inseparable part of Austria’
By Raphael Ahren
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, right, and Austrian vice-chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, of the Freedom Party, at a special meeting of the Austrian National Assembly at the temporary parliamentary assembly hall at Vienna Castle on December 20, 2017. (AFP/ APA / ROLAND SCHLAGER)
December 12, 2019, 1:32 pm
Austrian parliament sets stage for overwhelming condemnation of BDS
All five parties represented in National Council co-sponsor resolution saying anti-Israel boycott movement ’employs anti-Semitic patterns’
By Raphael Ahren
Illustrative: People hold up placards featuring Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (L) and Heinz-Christian Strache, chairman of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPOE) during protests against Austria's far right holding its so-called Academics Ball in Vienna, Austria on January 26, 2018. (AFP/APA/HANS PUNZ)
May 20, 2019, 10:28 am
Austrian Jewish head praises downfall of far-right leader
Oskar Deutsch says community’s boycott of Freedom Party validated, after faction head Heinz-Christian Strache forced to resign amid corruption scandal
By Raphael Ahren
Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, from left, hold a joint press conference after one year government in Austria in Vienna, Austria, December 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
May 2, 2019, 6:23 pm
Austria has world’s strictest anti-Nazism laws, chancellor says
In interview with Jewish weekly, Sebastian Kurz defends far-right Freedom Party; local Jewish leader says more must be done to confront anti-Semitism
By Raphael Ahren
Oskar Deutsch, left, with Austrian President Alexander van der Bellen, meeting Jews in Jerusalem, February 2019. (HBF/Peter Lechner)
February 7, 2019, 1:06 pm
Austrian Jewish leader: No reason for Israel to end boycott of far-right FPOe
Oskar Deutsch, accompanying Austria’s president here this week, praises Jerusalem’s no-contact stance on FPOe as ‘Jewish foreign policy,’ says the party is ‘obviously’ anti-Semitic
By Raphael Ahren
Top PLO official Hanan Ashrawi, left, and Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl in Vienna, January 1, 2019 (Twitter)
January 2, 2019, 6:34 pm
Austrian Jews slam foreign minister for hosting top PLO official
Karin Kneissl invited Hanan Ashrawi to New Year’s concert in Vienna; community leader says she used visit to ‘demonize Israel’
By Raphael Ahren
In this photo taken Thursday, April 19, 2012, sausages are displayed in a butcher shop in Klagenfurt, in the southern Austrian province of Carinthia. (AP/Darko Bandic)
July 18, 2018, 10:46 pm
In Austrian tale of kosher meat ban, groups find bone to pick with far right
Local Jews and opposition politicians were stewing after a Freedom Party official proposed limits on ritual slaughter. But he was not the first to cook up the idea
By Raphael Ahren
Chancellor of Austria Sebastian Kurz during a visit at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, June 10, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
June 20, 2018, 11:51 pm
Yad Vashem apologizes for guide confronting Austrian leader over FPOe
Israel’s Holocaust museum says tour guide who criticized Sebastian Kurz’s far-right coalition partner in Valley of the Communities did so on her own account
By Raphael Ahren
Newly sworn-in Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, left, and new Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, the FPOe’s chairman, talk during the swearing-in ceremony of the new Austrian government in Vienna on December 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
December 19, 2017, 5:22 pm
As far-right Austrian party attempts to shed Nazi past, a dilemma for Israel
Jerusalem conflicted over whether to side with Diaspora Jewish leaders, who are shunning FPOe, or engage in realpolitik to advance Israel’s interests
By Raphael Ahren
Illustrative: Leader of the right-wing Austrian Freedom Party (FPOe) Heinz-Christian Strache (C) stands next to his wife Philippa Beck and FPOe members Norbert Hofer (L) and Johann Gudenus (3rdL) at the end of a campaign event for the country's parliamentary elections on October 13, 2017 in Vienna. (AFP Photo/Joe Klamar)
October 23, 2017, 10:50 pm
Austrian Jewish leader fights to keep far-right out of government
Despite his plea that Freedom Party not be part of coalition, Oskar Deutch says ‘I don’t think that the state of Austria will listen’
By JTA
April 6, 2016, 11:44 pm
Anti-Semitic incidents in Austria up more than 80%
Local watchdog group records 465 complaints in 2015, over 200 of them being hostile Internet postings
By JTA
SS officials including Heinrich Himmler visit the Mauthausen concentration camp in 1941. (CC-BY-SA-3.0-de , German Federal Archives)
February 9, 2016, 6:18 pm
Austria won’t indict paper for calling Holocaust survivors murderers
Jewish community of Vienna charges prosecutors are reaffirming Nazi logic by closing probe into far-right publication
By JTA
Far-right Austrian parliament member Andreas Moelzer (photo credit: Youtube screenshot)
April 8, 2014, 4:19 pm
Austrian candidate withdraws over EU-Nazi comparison
Andreas Moelzer said Third Reich was ‘informal and liberal’ compared to the EU
By JTA
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