Mainstream anti-Semitism in Austria

Alleged right-wing extremists recently disrupted a commemoration ceremony at the former Ebensee concentration camp in Austria. And only a few days ago a Jewish family was openly turned away from a hotel in the Austrian resort of Serfaus for anti-Semitic reasons. The daily Der Standard comments. "Every incident is taken on its own, apparently none of them is regarded in connection with the others. This is the real failure: that despite an emphasis on [the relevant] history at schools, 'oral history' from witnesses of the events and other initiatives, the Austrians have still not been cured of their mainstream anti-Semitism. In this respect the hotel owner in Serfaus and the teenagers in Ebensee do indeed have a lot in common - not only in the depictions in foreign newspapers. The relativisers in Austria must finally recognise this."

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