This is a guest post by Karl Pfeifer, a veteran anti-fascist and journalist based in Vienna.
The city of Vienna launched a promotional campaign with the slogan “Wien ist anders”, “Vienna is different.” And Vienna after the Second World War was different, insofar as it did not welcome back its former Jewish citizens and tolerated antisemitism in politics and media for several decades.
This is a guest post by Karl Pfeifer, a veteran anti-fascist and journalist based in Vienna.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was part of a death squad that killed three Kurds in Austria, according to Green party security spokesman Peter Pilz. He said Ahmadinejad had been involved in the killings in Vienna in 1989 and may have pulled the trigger on one of the guns used to kill the men.
This is a guest post by Karl Pfeifer, a veteran anti-fascist and journalist based in Vienna.
On May 10th, survivors of the concentration camp Ebensee were shot at with pellets and abused as they gathered to remember their liberation. Masked neo-Nazi thugs screamed ‘Heil Hitler!’ and ‘This way to the gas!’ at ten elderly Italian men and women who returned to the site of the concentration camp in Austria.
This is a guest post by Karl Pfeifer, a veteran anti-fascist and journalist based in Vienna.
Austrian law prohibits public denial, belittlement, approval or justification of Nazi genocide or other Nazi crimes against humanity in a print publication, in broadcast, or in other media. The law prohibits public incitement to hostile acts against a church, religious society, or group because of its race, nationality, or ethnicity, if that incitement poses a danger to public order. It also prohibits incitement, insult, or contempt against these groups if it violates human dignity.
This is a guest post by Karl Pfeifer, a veteran anti-fascist and journalist based in Vienna.
A few months ago, I reported on how the Austrian parliament elected a vice-president, Martin Graf, who remains a life-long member of the extreme right Olympia fraternity (Burschenschaft).
Continue reading ‘Austria’s Far Right Blames the Jews…Again’
This is a guest post by Karl Pfeifer, a veteran anti-fascist and journalist based in Vienna.
Tachles was one of the keywords of the London Conference on Antisemitism. Used by Jewish and non-Jewish experts and delegates alike, the word is an exhortation to get down to brass tacks.
This is a guest post by Karl Pfeifer, a veteran anti-fascist and journalist based in Vienna.
Reading the news about the reintegration of a notorious Holocaust denier into the Catholic Church, as well as the open letter of Cardinal Christoph Schönborn to the Chief Rabbi of Austria and the Jewish community on the occasion of Holocaust Memorial Day, reminded me of my boyhood experiences at the elementary school in Baden bei Wien during the 1930s.
This is a guest post by Karl Pfeifer, a veteran anti-fascist and journalist based in Vienna.
Gerhard Oberkofler, a retired Professor in the Austrian city of Innsbruck and a writer for the Stalinist website Kominform, concerns himself once again with “gangs of Israeli murderers.”
This is a guest post by Karl Pfeifer, a veteran anti-fascist and journalist based in Vienna.
Last October, Z Word published my detailed report on the scandal of a member of the extreme right wing Olympia student fraternity, Dr. Martin Graf of the FPÖ, being elected as deputy president of the Austrian parliament.
This is a guest post by Karl Pfeifer, a veteran anti-fascist and journalist based in Vienna.
I first met Paula Abrams at the “Republikanischer Klub,” a club founded in 1986 by Austrian intellectuals to fight the antisemitic campaign of Kurt Waldheim, who became president of Austria.
This is a guest post by Karl Pfeifer, a veteran anti-fascist and journalist based in Vienna.
“Hatred of the Jew is not the outcome of anti-Semitic lie and calumny. The contrary is true: the lie and the calumny are the outcome of anti-Semitic sentiments.” - Max Nordau
Continue reading ‘“Excessively:” The Austrian Media on Gaza’
This is a guest post by Karl Pfeifer, a veteran anti-fascist and journalist based in Vienna.
“Greetings from the national resistance, you left-wing police pig. ” These were the words which accompanied a deadly knife attack on Alois Mannichl, the police chief of the German town of Passau, last Saturday night.
Continue reading ‘Passau Stabbing Highlights Neo-Nazi Activism’
This is a guest post by Karl Pfeifer, a veteran anti-fascist and journalist based in Vienna.
Between 1969 and 1992, Klaus Emmerich was the correspondent of ORF, the Austrian state television channel, in Washington DC. He also worked also for the Vienna daily Die Presse and for German media. On October 5, Emmerich, who retired a few years ago, was asked by the discussion club 2 of ORF to comment on Barack Obama. “I wouldn’t want the Western world to be directed by a black man,“ he said “If you say that is a racist remark, that’s right, without a doubt!”
Karl Pfeifer has written an insightful and penetrating essay for Z Word in which he dissects the unwillingness of Austrian social democrats to confront antisemitism - and their willingness to deploy it.
Continue reading ‘New on Z Word: Antisemitism and the Austrian Left’
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