That’s a tad hyperbolic, no?
The Austrian president is a largely ceremonial position.
Subhead at Tabletmag: “Dispatch from Vienna, where a closely contested presidential election may be a bellwether for an increasingly xenophobic Europe”
Has the writer ever studied Torah? It tends to have frequently a xenophobic attitude to non-Jews. Every proud group has a somewhat xenophobic view of strangers. If you want to protect something, you must discriminate.
Tabletmag: “Austria has dodged a bullet after voters elected the Green Party candidate Alexander Van der Bellen to be their next president over the nominee of the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), Norbert Hofer. In a contest that sharply divided Austria along gender, educational, and geographical lines, Van der Bellen beat Hofer in the closest presidential contest in Austrian history. Thirty years after Kurt Waldheim—a former member of the SA and an accomplice to Nazi war crimes in Serbia as a Wehrmacht intelligence officer during the Second World War—was elected to the same post, Austrian voters narrowly prevented a neo-fascist from entering the Hofburg.”
And we all remember the genocides that Kurt Waldheim launched while president.
Tabletmag seems to be displaying a real xenophobia against many of the non-Jews of Austria who wish to preserve their heritage and their gene pool just as much as Torah wants Jews to preserve their heritage and gene pool.
