The
antisemitism report published on Wednesday by the Jewish Community of Vienna (IKG) and the "Forum against Antisemitism (fga)".
According
to this, 550 antisemitic incidents were counted in 2019, 47 more than two years
earlier. The report contains six assaults on Jews, including attacks on
children in Viennese public transport.
Although
the number of reported threats fell to a total of 18 reports, the number of
property damage increased by more than half. A total of 78 such incidents were
reported, including swastika smearing and damage to the former cemetery
attendant's house of the Jewish cemetery in Göttsbach, Lower Austria.
For the first time, the authors of the report classify the
incidents ideologically. Accordingly, most incidents (268) have an extreme
right-wing background, followed by Muslim (31) and left (25) anti-Semitic
motives. No assignment was possible for 226 incidents. In order to enable
international comparability, the categorization of the incidents is based on
that in Germany and the United Kingdom.
The majority of the incidents concern antisemitic verbal abuse, in addition there
are anti-Jewish emails, letters, calls and postings as well as posts in social
media. What you have to imagine: A Palestinian cultural forum from Vienna, for
example, posted a photo of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which
shows him with a red eye, blood in the corners of his mouth and a Star of David
on his forehead, how he sets out to do a howling, blood-soaked one and eat
severely injured toddler.
Source: ikg-wien
