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Austrian prosecutor: Call to kill Jews is legal criticism of Israel

Facebook postings from a Turkish man showing Adolf Hitler, with a statement praising the death of Jews, are a legitimate expression of criticizing the Jewish state, the spokesman for the prosecutor office in the city of Linz, Philip Christl, said on Tuesday.

“I could have annihilated all the Jews in the world, but I left some of them alive so you will know why I was killing them...,” Ibrahim B. wrote on his Facebook page in December.

Ibrahim, the 29-year-old owner of a hair salon in the city of Wels near Linz, attributed the quote to Hitler and posted a picture of the German dictator on his Facebook site. Ibrahim launched his pro-Nazi tirade in the context of criticizing Israel’s Operation Protective Edge war against Hamas last summer.

Christl described Ibrahim’s statements as merely expressing “displeasure toward Israel,” and not a glorification of Hitler, according to the Oberösterreichische Nachrichten paper.

Ibrahim, whose last name was not disclosed in the Austrian press, also called on Allah to annihilate the Jewish state, the newspaper wrote. The Austrian media said the quote attributed to Hitler was not an actual statement from the Nazi leader.

A Facebook user noticed Ibrahim’s postings and notified the police. The authorities opened an investigation into a violation of a law that outlaws the glorification of the National Socialists.

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The uproar over the decision to dismiss the criminal complaint against Ibrahim appears to have prompted a senior prosecutor to re-evaluate the case, Der Standard reported on Wednesday.

http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Austrian-prosecutor-Call-to-kill-Jews-is-legal-criticism-of-Israel-390760

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What's also interesting (and this article is an example) that today it seems most anti-semitism in Austria seems to come from Muslims and not the native Austrians.

Another indicator of this is an incident that took place last year not far away from where I live:

The football team from Maccabi Haiffa (ISR) was at a training camp in Bischofshofen, playing a game, when suddenly a bunch of 30 Turks and Arabs (they are living in the area) stormed the football field and started to kick and attack the Israeli players.