HOLOCAUST

THE FORWARD – The leader of Austria’s far-right Freedom Party is touring Israel, four years after he angered many Jews by posting an anti-Semitic cartoon on his Facebook page.

Heinz-Christian Strache visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on Tuesday and said he was in the country on an official visit at the invitation of the Likud party. However, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson told the Times of Israel Strache’s visit had not been coordinated by the government.

According to the Times of Israel, former President Shimon Peres turned down a request to meet Strache, with his office saying it did not want to confer legitimacy on the far-right party.

Vienna City Council member David Lasar, who is Jewish, was one of six Austrians accompanying Strache.

Israel’s government officially boycotts the Freedom Party, viewing it as far-right extremist. However, some right-wing Israeli politicians have lobbied for the ban on meeting with Freedom Party leaders to be reversed, because the Austrian party’s leaders support Israel’s West Bank settlements and oppose Muslims.

In 2012, Strache, who has led the party since 2005, posted a cartoon on Facebook showing a banker with a large hooked nose and Star of David cuff links profiting from Europe’s financial crisis.

2 thoughts on “AUSTRIA – Far-Right Party Leader Tours Israel”
  1. Sort of like when a bunch of CIA-backed “neo-Nazis” put predatory IMF jews in control of the Ukrainian government. “Antisemitism” has to be done exactly right, or it can be harnessed by the jews.

  2. Cartoons really do carry weight and power!

    I grew up in the old Roman Catholic church when Mass was held in Latin. One particularly pertinent Catholic phrase in the Mass came when you say, “Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa”. “It is my fault, it is my fault, my most grievous fault:. Pure guilt.

    When I hear of traitors to humanity like this, richly rewarded for their capitulation, I am nauseated. This goes beyond a Mel Gibson incident…. However, we have no way of knowing just what types of threats were placed before him to induce him to shift courses…. that is always a possibility.

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