FPÖ – Stefan: Freedom agrees to the anti-Semitism report

Vienna (OTS) – “The FPÖ rejects – and we have always made this clear – anti-Semitism in any form,” said FPÖ justice spokesman NAbg today. Harald Stefan in his contribution to the debate.

“I read a very interesting book by Raimund Fastenbauer, the former General Secretary of the Federal Association of Israelite Religious Communities in Austria, who dealt with this topic in a very well-founded manner. In the book he makes it absolutely clear that anti-Semitism is diverse, that there is left-wing, right-wing and anti-Semitism in political Islam. And that there is a very clear push in Europe through the immigration of Muslims, but also from Muslims living here who have been radicalized by imams and through indoctrination. We should never forget this fact when we have political discussions and the FPÖ is also often criticized. In reality, however, we are natural allies, because we pointed out from the outset what kind of development would take place if immigration, especially from the Muslim world, was allowed to slide so freely by radicalized young men out of ideological blindness. At the same time you close your eyes and then you think you can talk away this problem – on the contrary, the problem is getting bigger,” emphasized Stefan.

“We recently disagreed with the anti-Semitism report and the original concept for the simple reason that a few things were mixed in that have nothing to do with the fight against anti-Semitism. This used to be the peculiar system that police officers were supposed to put a flag on hate crimes, even though the term hate crimes has no legal meaning. And that’s why it’s very problematic when the police get instructions to mark something. But what bothered us even more was that the connection was made again and again that the participants in the Corona demonstrations, who demonstrated out of concern about the excessive, senseless and evidence-free coercive measures during the Corona period, were discredited as anti-Semites. We saw this as a completely misguided mix-up and the legitimate action against anti-Semitism was politically abused,” said the FPÖ justice spokesman.

“In the anti-Semitism report presented today, this connection no longer exists and the positive now clearly outweighs it, which is why we agree with it and hope that the report will do without these political amalgamations in the future,” said Stefan.