Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (l) with two colleagues following the appointment of Austria’s new cabinet on Dec. 6. Photo: Reuters/Imago Images/Martin Juen A group of prominent Austrian public figures have joined with the country’s Jewish student union to demand the resignation of the newly-appointed interior minister who once accused a rival political party of working for its “American and Israeli masters.” An open letter published on Monday called on Gerhard Karner of the conservative ÖVP Party to quit his post because of his “antisemitic rhetoric.” Signatories to the letter included the celebrated playwright and novelist Elfriede Jelinek, the Israeli-Austrian historian...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
